Artec Alnico Hot Rail Tele Bridge Pickup

[vintage clubber]

Got this from EY Guitar Music for about $20 shipped. You don't see too many rail pickups out there with alnico magnets. It sounds pretty nice for the price point. I have it wired for Series/Split/Parallel.

 

[wildschwein]

Nice set-up. Do you have the wiring options available via the three way? I have a pretty similar alnico unit from Artec I bought a few years ago. They have a very ballsy/meaty sound to them.

 

[vintage clubber]

Nice set-up. Do you have the wiring options available via the three way? I have a pretty similar alnico unit from Artec I bought a few years ago. They have a very ballsy/meaty sound to them.

I used this diagram from Seymour Duncan's site:

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[wildschwein]

I used this diagram from Seymour Duncan's site:

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Awesome -- looks like a cool way to get a lot of sounds out of the one pickup.

 

[vintage clubber]

 

[Glen Smith]

Does your pickup have 4 wires plus shield or 4 with the shield?

Ok, found the pickup you used. The demo sounds good.

 

[Monotremata]

Wow its basically an Alnico GFS Lil Puncher.. Wonder if GFS will start carrying them now..

 

[vintage clubber]

Does your pickup have 4 wires plus shield or 4 with the shield?

Ok, found the pickup you used. The demo sounds good.

4 wires plus shield.

Thank you! EY recently sent me an e-mail that their products' pricing would be raised by 10-20% effective September 1.

 

[vintage clubber]

Wow its basically an Alnico GFS Lil Puncher.. Wonder if GFS will start carrying them now..

I read some complaints that the Artec pickup only had 58mm rails which was why GFS introduced the XL version. I had no issues getting sound from either E string as there is plenty of magnet field to get the vibrations from them. It's probably more of a cosmetic concern like standard humbucker spacing vs. F or Trembucker spacing. EVH had standard spaced pickups back in the day.

 

[Monotremata]

I read some complaints that the Artec pickup only had 58mm rails which was why GFS introduced the XL version. I had no issues getting sound from either E string as there is plenty of magnet field to get the vibrations from them. It's probably more of a cosmetic concern like standard humbucker spacing vs. F or Trembucker spacing. EVH had standard spaced pickups back in the day.

I bought my Puncher back in 2006 right after I got my first Tele, but it was called something else like the Hot Puncher or something like that, I dont think the other wind options were there except maybe the Cool Puncher.. Im guessing mine was the older one as they renamed em to the Lil Puncher XL like a year later (I think).. I just looked at the pics of em at GFS's site and Im pretty positive the magnets on mine did NOT go all the way to the edge of the bobbin like that, but like you, I had NO trouble getting my low E to grind, or my high E to squeal like a pig with my harmonic noises hehe. That guitar was always tuned down to A too..

 

[BryMelvin]

Wow its basically an Alnico GFS Lil Puncher.. Wonder if GFS will start carrying them now..

I bought one of these artecs on ebay from hong kong AND a little puncher.

Got them mixed up on the bench as they both turned out to have the same part #on the bottom.

 

[Monotremata]

I bought one of these artecs on ebay from hong kong AND a little puncher.

Got them mixed up on the bench as they both turned out to have the same part #on the bottom.

Whoa thats a trip. I wonder if GFS's ARE Alnico, although they seem to like to mention that often when a pickup is Alnico and theres nothing in the description about it.. Im looking at those Artecs on EYMusic now, and thats the ONLY Artec Tele hotrail clone up there, now I wonder.. That could be why I liked that pickup a hell of a lot better than the crappy Duncan Hot Rail I had in my Strat. Was very hesitant to buy it for the Tele after that experience, but I figured for $30 I couldnt go wrong haha. Turned out it was all kinds of awesome for the doomy metal stuff I play..