AbbeyTone Pickups London

Hand-wound pickups.Made to find your sound.

Tell us how your guitar feels today—and where you want it to go. AbbeyTone builds pickups around the instrument, the player, and the sound in your head.

Book consultationExplore the craft

AbbeyTone is a London-based maker of boutique guitar pickups. Traditional coil-winding craft meets a practical conversation about your guitar, your playing, and the response you need.

Two handcrafted guitar pickups on a sunburst guitar

The pickup

Built for the guitar in front of us.

Output, clarity, attack, and feel are considered together—not chosen from a generic checklist.

Start the brief
A guitar pickup being tested with an analogue meter

The consultation

A conversation, not a catalogue.

We begin with the instrument and the player, then shape the specification around the result you want to hear and feel.

See the process

The process

Wound by ear. Tested at the bench.

  1. 01

    Listen

    We start with your guitar, rig, playing style, and what feels missing.

  2. 02

    Define

    Together we turn words about sound and response into a practical pickup brief.

  3. 03

    Wind & test

    The pickup is built and checked at the bench before it reaches your guitar.

Pickup winding tools, copper wire, and workshop notes
Otto soldering guitar electronics at his London workbench

Start a conversation

Let’s find the pickup your guitar is asking for.

Share the instrument, the sound you are chasing, and what is not working today. AbbeyTone will come back with the right next questions.

Use this form for written enquiries, or call us on:

020 8040 1883

05 / Where to find us

Prefer to talk it through in person?

AbbeyTone is the sister workshop to Fretwork London and RJ Guitars. If you would rather meet first, you can sit down with Otto for a free consultation at Sixty Sixty Sounds, one of Denmark Street’s most respected guitar shops. Bring the guitar, talk through the sound and response you need, and begin your pickup consultation face to face.

The address
Sixty Sixty Sounds, 28 Denmark St, London WC2H 8NJ
When
Free consultation, by appointment
The location
On Denmark Street — London’s iconic guitar row

From the bench

Notes for a better pickup conversation.

The journal is being rebuilt around the questions players ask before changing pickups—not around a list of materials with no musical context.

Pickup sketches, copper wire, and workshop tools in an open notebook

Output without the shorthand

What output changes—and what it does not tell you on its own.

Choosing for the guitar

Why the instrument, player, and rig belong in the same conversation.

Clarity, attack, and feel

A practical vocabulary for describing pickup response before the winding starts.