PSA- Gravelin Mongoose(s)

[diablo175]

Josh recently wound a couple of new pick ups for me. In the process, he managed to scuff up the bobbins on a standard Mongoose and the double slug variant.  Josh, being Josh, made two new ones, which are en route. 
He’s selling the two “B stock“ pups for $75 apiece plus shipping.

If you’ve not tried Gravelins and are looking for full throated, tonally rich sounding, hot pick ups, (around 14.3 K) these are a great foray into custom wound, boutique pick ups at or slightly below mass-produced price marks.

PM me for Josh’s contact info. 

[Travis]

Dudes! Someone grab these!  I’ve got two mongooses. (Mongeese?) and they’re killer, killer pickups.

[Dave Scepter]

1 hour ago, Travis said:

I’ve got two mongooses. (Mongeese?) 

And if they were just made, they would be called Mongoslings 🤣

[Joe G]

Mongo's?

[JGravelin]

Diablo, this is so kind of you. I didn't expect an advertise on the HFC but sure, let's go! The one pickup that is available is a double-slug 'Goose with very mild scuffing on the treble side, neck-facing coil: so minor really, like if you changed strings 2 or 3 times. With double-slugs, a 51mm - 54mm string spacing is covered with 52.5mm being dead center. Alnico 5, around 14k, and DiMarz color codes on the output leads. I told Diablo $75 + shipping ($11.00 in the USA), so $86.00 total. 

The proper Mongoose scuffy with double screw poles, I'm keeping that. Sorry! It's going into a cool Kramer Baretta I own as a permanent install for my own shred enjoyment. 😋

More details: The double-slugs of specific steel grade used in this pickup impart lows that are solid and together, a bit of a boost in the upper midrange frequency bite that sounds very Fender-y clean, and with a great cut and clarity with overdrive/distortion saturation, and a natural un-hyped treble. Polite cleans, angry, pissed off, and aggressive under gain.

I'm not perfect and sometimes manufacturing mistakes like this happen. All coils are tested at 3 different points throughout the wind and assembly and this is electronically sound and high-functioning, which is the most important part. I can't sell it as New however, so... thanks to Diablo, here we are.

josh@gravelinpickups.com

 

 

[Stike]

1 hour ago, JGravelin said:

Diablo, this is so kind of you. I didn't expect an advertise on the HFC but sure, let's go! The one pickup that is available is a double-slug 'Goose with very mild scuffing on the treble side, neck-facing coil: so minor really, like if you changed strings 2 or 3 times. With double-slugs, a 51mm - 54mm string spacing is covered with 52.5mm being dead center. Alnico 5, around 14k, and DiMarz color codes on the output leads. I told Diablo $75 + shipping ($11.00 in the USA), so $86.00 total. 

The proper Mongoose scuffy with double screw poles, I'm keeping that. Sorry! It's going into a cool Kramer Baretta I own as a permanent install for my own shred enjoyment. 😋

More details: The double-slugs of specific steel grade used in this pickup impart lows that are solid and together, a bit of a boost in the upper midrange frequency bite that sounds very Fender-y clean, and with a great cut and clarity with overdrive/distortion saturation, and a natural un-hyped treble. Polite cleans, angry, pissed off, and aggressive under gain.

I'm not perfect and sometimes manufacturing mistakes like this happen. All coils are tested at 3 different points throughout the wind and assembly and this is electronically sound and high-functioning, which is the most important part. I can't sell it as New however, so... thanks to Diablo, here we are.

josh@gravelinpickups.com

 

 

Black bobbins?

[diablo175]

42 minutes ago, Stike said:

Black bobbins?

Yup.