Luthier Collaboration
Innovative, luthier-collaborative pickups built with modern tech - from 3D-printed covers to unique 4-coil hum-cancelling designs.
a beautiful example of custom pickups for vidar guitars.
Pickups built for builders.
🎛 Modular Design: 4 coils instead of 2 — hum free splits, high tonal transparency and dynamic range and unique aesthetics.
🧵 Tailored Recipes: Choose wire gauges, winds and magnets yourself — or let’s develop the tone you want together, adapted to your needs.
🖨 3D-Printed Precision: Lightweight, precise housings and enclosures with full design flexibility — including angled or asymmetrical formats and intricate artworks.
🛠 Made for Luthiers: Special pricing, collaboration, OEM-friendly concept and scalability.
🤖 Adaptive Technical expertise: We speak the full range of comprehensible english to full-on CAD/eCAD and electrical engineering talk.
How We Work With Luthiers
Vision:
We discuss the tone and design you're after.
Design:
We’ll help refine specs — windings, wire, magnets, housing — and prototype if needed.
Build:
Your pickups are crafted with know-how, precision using advanced tools.
Refine & Repeat:
Ongoing feedback and updates for recurring builds.
Besides the fact that the Nova Omnia Pickups are absolutely versatile and highly performant in tone, they also have a super aesthetic and modern look. For me as a custom guitar builder I really like the fact that you can talk with Till about special specs if you want to, though the pickups really don‘t need that as they are good as they are stock. Besides that, Till is a humble human being and someone you like to work with.
Thore @ Vidar Guitars
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Innovations in Action
3D-printed enclosures:
Industrial grade SLA resin covers make custom designs and formats possible.
SLA is an amazing contemporary technology. The durable, tough and low-maintenance option of our choice.
3D-printing based construction:
We print the bobbins and parts of the construction in our workshop, enabling quick iteration and versatility.
Multi-coil configurations:
Four coils enable hum cancelling single coil voiced setups.
As they come wired in pairs, hum free symmetrical, asymmetrical and even low cross-talk stereo options are possible.
Vacuum wax potting:
All coils are potted with two runs of high vacuum to ensure immunity against squealing feedback.
High permeability rails:
The four rails are being laser-cut in different lengths to work with different spacings and string numbers - and they are quite literally the core of the coils, pushing the limits of output, clarity and transparency.
Vast tonal options:
Choose your tone - or let us guide you.
We feature a wide selection of magnets and winding options to taylor the pickup to your needs, always keeping application, tone, dynamics and feel in mind.
PCB covers:
Optionally, we can design you a PCB backplate with pin connectors. This features a meshed ground plane to further shield the pickup without risking eddy current losses. And it's a good place for another logo placement!
Application specific manufacturing:
In coordination with you, the pickup's tonal profile and output is created to work best with passive or active instruments - and if you're up for an adventure, we might even design a preamp together.
Coil geometry and impedance are adapted to your application.
Different rail and coil lengths can be combined to accommodate different string counts and spacings.
Let’s Talk Pickups
We work in close conjunction with luthiers to ensure every project is executed with the necessary focus to deliver optimal results. Tell us what you're building — and let's see what we can create together.