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AVn-60b..... Twangy, clear 'n bright


 

Kinman workers are trained to perform excellent craftsmanship, note how well done the black cotton twine wrapping is.

 

 An old favorite mid 60's Tele Custom with white binding.

AVn-60b (Gen-2 bridge pickup)

Focused, twangy, very clear classic Tele* tone that's so dynamic it's touch sensitivity rates an 11/10.  This is one fabulous pickup that twangs better than any other Tele pickup, in fact it's got such great twang we discontinued our Twang-Blaster.  The airy, dynamic twang is there and the highs are prominent with a nice bitey edge when played as single notes.  Piano mid-tones galore on the wound strings.

Zero-Hum and wax potted for Zero microphonic screech.  However, be aware that magnetic steel bridges compromise the hum cancelling ability of our Tele bridge pickups.  The solution is a non-magnetic Stainless Steel bridge made by Glendale Guitars in Texas.  They make 4 different kinds of Tele bridge with various Cut-Aways designed for comfort.  Highly recommended.  https://glendaleguitars.com/stainless-steel/

Finely engineered and hand crafted by Kinman artisans to look like the original 60's pickup with it's precision wound black cotton twine over-coil-wrap.  This beauty has six of Kinman's propriety low strength Alnico rod magnets, like all our Fender type pickups, so string pull is minimized, and there is less rattle and buzz from the strings crashing into the frets so sustain is longer and the sound is free of clutter and crash. 

Patented advanced design for better sound and Zero-Hum.  Engineered to look like the originals. 

Technical & Application info:


Some people will call these noiseless Telecaster pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Telecaster pickups.  That's because there are 2 types of noise, Hum which is cancelled in the pickup and Buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars

Number of parts in this pickup: 28
Number of parts in normal pickup: 10
Number of parts in other brand noiseless: 23

Patent numbers 6,103,966 & 8,791,351


** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary Alnico rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985.  It is Alnico-5 but has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5 so sustain is longer and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.

* Fender and Telecaster and Tele are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc.  Kinman is not associated with FMIC but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to reference our products.

 
Laser engraved stuff so you won't forget  

The AVn-60b requires no modification to the pickup cavity in your guitar.  Like old fashioned Tele bridge pickups the 3 mounting screws provide grounding to the bridge & strings.

Adjustment requirements

Please refer to >Technical >Adjust & Setup

Connection means available

  • Prepared Teflon coated bare colored wires for soldering.
  • Kinman connector for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.

Hook-up cables

  • Optional Teflon coated single wires for soldering.
  • Custom lengths by request with Order.
  • Optional 2 conductor shielded.  The 3 mounting screws provide a ground link to the bridge/strings.
  • Available with Kinman Harness plug for connecting to any Kinman harness.
  • NOTE: the 3 mounting screws provide grounding to the bridge & strings (like old fashioned Tele bridge pickups do).  However, unlike old fashioned Tele bridge pickup, when ordered with 3 conductor hook-ups the phase can be reversed.

Dimensions

Output Polarity: 

  • Phase reversible when specified with 3 single hook-up wires so can adapt to any companion pickups.

Pot & Capacitor values

  • Great Tele sound with 250k volume pot.  A 500k volume pot makes the twang sharper.  Both are good.
  • Tone pot is usually the same value as the volume but for a little more top end brightness can be 1meg or a No-Load.
  • Stock pots can actually measure as low as 170k and 350k.  Pots in our Goodbye-Soldering Harness are guaranteed to measure no less that 250k and 500k respectively.
  • Normal tone cap value of 0.022uF in 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester.  Smaller value reduces the severity of Treble cut, larger values increase it.

Magnet spread

  • Standard vintage 55mm only (slanted mount resolves to 53.5mm)

Magnet Staggers

  • Normal improved Stagger to suit 7 ~ 14 inch uniform radius fretboards including USA Custom Guitar Compound 7-1/4" ~ 9-1/2
  • Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14")
  • Option to change the magnet stagger of sets and singles in our 'After-Order Supplementary Questions' email we send you.

Mounting hardware included

  • 3 Pan head mounting screws 6-32 UNC x 18mm long (especially made for us)
  • 3 Silicon Rubber tube springs.

Covers

  • Tele bridge pickups don't have covers, the top coil is bound with Black twine and wax potted for protection.
  • With and without Kinman logo.

We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Tech Info even if you think you know it all.  Kinmans' require specialized knowledge and sometimes there is updated info.  There is also a handy wiring diagram available.

We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page in Tech Info so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.