DAVID ALLEN
BRING TONE TO LIFE
BRING TONE TO LIFE®
Scatter-wound, hand-built guitar pickups and effect pedals with vintage feel, modern reliability, and the tone serious players chase.
Vintage voiced, player tested.
Single coils, humbuckers, P-90s, and bass pickups.
WELCOME TO DAVID ALLEN PICKUPS®
We make our pickups a bit different. Every set is voiced from the ground up to bring tone to life® under your fingers.
THE FULL LINEUP
Single coils, humbuckers, P-90's, and bass sets, each is scatter-wound to its own distinct voice.
STRAT™ SINGLE COIL
Classic single-coil voicings with bloom and bell-like clarity.
TELECASTER®
Bright, snappy Tele tones with depth and harmonic content.
HUMBUCKERS
PAF-style and modern humbuckers built for touch sensitivity.
BASS
P-Bass and J-Bass sets with fundamental punch and clean note definition.
P-90'S
Throaty, raw P-90 character with bite and complex overtones.
THE FULL LINEUP
Hand-built pedals voiced to sit alongside the pickups, from polished overdrive to a full wall of fuzz.
DIAGRAMS
Reference wiring diagrams for every pickup family we build.
BUILT BY HAND,
HEARD IN EVERY NOTE.
From raw flatwork to finished pickup sets, the process stays tactile. Materials, winding, voicing, and testing all point toward one thing, a more musical response under your fingers.
PRODUCTS
A draft selection of the tones and product lines that define the current David Allen catalog.
INSIDE THE SHOP
IN THE WORKSHOP
Flatwork, magnets, and 42 AWG, scatter-wound by hand on the Traverse winder. A look at the tools and pickups in progress.
ARTISTS AND WORKING PLAYERS
