Cavalier Stringmaster®, 8 string steel guitars - The iconic Fender® Stringmaster® Steel Guitar pickup. The pickup design is 8500 turns of 42AWG over eight AlNiCo V poles. Custom winds and builds at no additional charge. Light wax potting. Supplied with machine screws or body mount wood screws, and height tubing. For a set of Stringmaster® 8 pickups where one is RWRP to the other (to allow for series and parallel humbucking modes), select one pickup as clockwise/south and the other as counter-clockwise/north

Cavalier Pickups Build - Cavalier Tele®, Esquire®, AR90 (P90®)and '51 P-Bass® pickups are all built to respective vintage footprint specifications and all will properly fit into Fender® guitars and basses, or any guitars/basses built to Fender® pickup footprint specifications. I hand build all Cavalier bobbins with vulcanized fiber board flatware, AlNiCo V or III rod magnets, hand guided 42AWG or 43AWG coil wire using a custom coil winding machine of my own build, with Red Lion infrared trigger and digital counter. The Lion bridge pickup has a steel base plate and its wire coil is wound with cotton string. The Lioness and Fat Lioness Tele® neck pickup wire coil is covered with black or ivory/parchment string. All Cavalier non-tapped pickups have cloth covered lead wire. Light wax potting (which is the default for all Cavalier Pickups) will suppress feedback and microphonics well enough for the vast majority of guitarists and will allow pickups to render "lively" and "resonant" sounds with increased harmonics. Heavy wax potting is an option that may help those who play at really high full tilt boogie volumes with gobs of gain. In doing so, some of the "liveliness" of the overall sound is somewhat suppressed. Wiring - black cloth covered leads are the coil ground and yellow cloth covered leads are the coil hot side.