The humbuckers I just ordered from Kinman are going in my white guitar with a tiger-striped pickguard. What was in there before were the most boring, most underwhelming humbuckers I’ve ever heard — from a well-known big-brand. I had just finished that guitar and was horrified and dismayed by the lack of anything nice or stimulating about those pickups. After paying a premium price and being utterly disappointed, I immediately retreated to the Kinman website to get what I KNOW sounds the way I want my guitars represented.
Cheers for what you do, Kinman. You make is an extraordinary array of better-than-world-class humbuckers — not one of them the same — all original masterpieces with exciting, extraordinary performance and exemplary tone that outclass anything I’ve tried from the big brands.
- Dave Mallon
I received my new PAF+ pickups and installed them in my Gibson ES-137. The difference is night and day - your pickups are everything claimed and a pretty but average sounding guitar now has the voice it always should have had. As much as I bought the pickups to improve cleans just on the edge of break-up, which has happened in spades, what amazes me is the way it handles high-gain now; complex yet clear notes with a fantastic harmonic signature. It's now one of my favorite guitars -
-Stephen Hird.