Est. 2007, handwound in the USA
Bring Tone
To Life®
David Allen Pickups builds boutique guitar and bass pickups with vintage feel, modern reliability, and the touch sensitivity serious players chase.
Boutique Build
Vintage voiced, player tested.
Trusted Tone
Single coils, humbuckers, bass sets.
Welcome
Welcome to David Allen Pickups®
We make our pickups a bit different. We do not try and reverse engineer, copy another pickup set or pickup maker's sets, or make a model similar to another company's product. Every set is voiced from the ground up to bring tone to life under your fingers.
Pickups
The full lineup
Single coils, humbuckers, Tron-style, P-90's, and bass sets, each handwound to its own distinct voice.
Strat™ Single Coil
Classic single-coil voicings with bloom and bell-like clarity.
Tron Style
Filtertron-inspired sets with chime, twang, and articulate midrange.
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.
Pedals
Overdrive and fuzz
Hand-built pedals voiced to sit alongside the pickups, from polite drive to wall of fuzz.
Overdrive
Bazooka
Thick, amp-like overdrive with stacking-friendly headroom.
Overdrive
The Sheriff
Smooth, transparent drive that cleans up with the volume knob.
Fuzz
69 Voodoo
Late-60s germanium-flavored fuzz with hairy, glorious sag.
Fuzz
Rusted Crown
Heavy, sustaining fuzz with crown-jewel bite.
Wiring
Diagrams
Reference wiring diagrams for every pickup family we build.
Strat Diagrams
Telecaster Diagrams
Humbuckers Diagrams
Bass Diagrams
P-90 Diagrams
The Craft
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.
Featured
Signature Picks
A draft selection of the tones and product lines that define the current David Allen catalog.
P-51 Mustang
$240.00PAF-inspired humbuckers with bloom, attack, and old-record warmth.
Cheetahs
$185.00Vintage-voiced Tele set with bite, sparkle, and old-school grit.
CS P Bass 4 String Set
$99.95Massive fundamental, dry punch, and the feel of a locked-in rhythm section.
Tru '62
$199.95Strat-style set chasing that elusive early-sixties chime and bloom.
Video
Inside the shop
Played By
Artists and working players
Sean Hurwitz
Jeff Cease
Derek St. Holmes
Ben Carey
Andy Andersson
Debora Valencay
Mitch Merrett
Nancy Wilson
Andy Davis
Adam Browder
Adam Shoenfeld
The BlackBerry Brandies
Kerry Marx
