I’ve been so busy recently I’ve hardly had a chance of
keeping the blog up to date. Custom jobs and new products … as well as keeping
all of you supplied with old favourites like Triple Blues Strat sets and
HardMan Tele pickups. Well, I will have been going full steam ahead for very
nearly a year now and I’m a little shocked by the way the business has come on.
There are literally hundreds of guitarists using Oil City pickups all over the
country … and abroad too! I have had to
build ‘Gloria’ my ‘mark three’ winding machine to cope with the demand … I will
post pictures as soon as I have time to
tidy her up. She had to be pressed into service even before she was properly
finished!
I’ve just got the new ‘CowTron’ pickup added to the list of
production pickups …
and a new high output Strat set known as StoneTones … and now there is
barely a day goes by without the familiar sight of me doing the ‘post run’ at the
local corner Post Office. A carrier bag packed with padded envelopes bearing
our familiar ‘industrial sunset’ logo. Yes it’s all very East End!
The only down side is that I have had no time to gig, see
live music … or indeed to see much of the outside world!
