TOM ANDERSON GUITAR PICKUP
100% Hand Made in USA

We’ve been Making pickups Since 1984:
"The first year of the company, I ran the company from my garage. What fed our family that first year was that Schecter Japan needed American-made pickups; the American Schecter factory closed a few months after I left, and nobody knew how to make pickups. Schecter Japan contacted me and we sat down at Carl’s Jr. and made a deal. I set up a little pickup-making shop in the kitchen of our house. After I got through making necks and bodies in our garage during the day, we sat up making pickups every night. That first year we lived on those pickups, and we still make them to this day."
Tom Anderson

Handmade in our pickup shop:
We use the highest quality parts and cutting edge technology, along with hand built, vintage winding machines and handmade construction techniques. Yes, in addition to electric guitars, we make the best electric guitar pickups in the world as well! Hand wound by a team with decades of experience - who not only make them, but install them in their own guitars to test them over the weekends!

VA SERIES
Vintage tone, staggered magnet, single coil

The sweetest true vintage, staggered magnet, S-size single coil pickups ever created. We wind them to be full bodied and lush, without a hint of that cloudy, over-wound sound. Highs are unbelievably sweet and soft, always soothing and never harsh.

VA 7: Our most popular vintage series pickups. The VA7's slightly reduced pole piece stagger welcomes a fuller bottom end, with less potential for string rattle. Specs: DC Resistance: 6.0 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 7.5 Mid: 3.0 Treble: 7.5, Magnet: AlNiCo

VA 7R: Reverse wound VA7 for hum-cancelling configurations. Specs: DC Resistance: 6.0 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 7.5 Mid: 3.0 Treble: 7.5, Magnet: AlNiCo

VA 7.2: Same as our VA 7, with a slightly hotter and fatter output. Specs: DC Resistance: 6.5 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 7.2 Mid: 3.2 Treble: 7.7, Magnet: AlNiCo

VA 7.2R: Same as our VA 7R, with a slightly hotter and fatter output. Specs: DC Resistance: 6.5 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 7.2 Mid: 3.2 Treble: 7.7, Magnet: AlNiCo

VA 7+: Hotter output for balanced neck to bridge transitions. Specs: DC Resistance: 15 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 6.3 Mid: 4.0 Treble: 8.0, Magnet: AlNiCo

VA 7.2+: Same as our VA 7+, with a slightly hotter and fatter output. Specs: DC Resistance: 15.5 kO, EQ(0-10) Bass: 5.8 Mid: 4.2 Treble: 8.1, Magnet: AlNiCo