Lauzon Music · Est. 1945
Throbak
ThroBak pickups in Canada, from Ottawa. ThroBak makes its vintage reproduction pickups in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We keep '63 and '64 MXV Strat sets and a 50s-style ES-335 harness in stock, and we can install them on our bench.
ThroBak buying guide and questions
Throbak
Buying guide
ThroBak pickups at Lauzon Music
What ThroBak is known for
Jon Gundry started ThroBak in Grand Rapids in 2002 as a small pedal and pickup maker, and it grew into a vintage reproduction pickup shop. ThroBak hunted down vintage winding machines, two of them out of Gibson's Kalamazoo factory, and winds its Strat coils on the same model Meteor ME-481A winder Fender used in the 60s. The '63 and '64 MXV Strat sets use Alnico 5 rod magnets copied from vintage '63 and '64 Strat magnets, heavy Formvar 42 AWG wire and USA-made fibreboard flatwork.
Buying ThroBak from us
On our page now: '63 MXV and '64 MXV Strat sets in aged and heavily aged white, and a short-shaft 50s-style wiring harness for the ES-335 with Bumble Bee capacitors. They ship insured, free over $200 across Canada and the US, with no duty on US orders. Ask us about having them installed on our bench, and ask us in the chat for any ThroBak model that isn't here.
Questions
Throbak questions, answered
Where are ThroBak pickups made?
In the USA. ThroBak is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and uses Michigan shops for many of its parts.
What's in the ThroBak 50s-style ES-335 harness?
Vintage-spec 500K CTS audio-taper pots for volume and tone, short-shaft to suit an ES-335, wired 50s style, with ThroBak's reproduction Bumble Bee capacitors.
Can you install ThroBak pickups for me?
Ask us in the chat. We can install them on our bench, and we'll talk through the guitar and the set with you first.
Real people, real answers
Looking for something specific?
Tell us the spec and we will chase it. Someone who plays reads it, not a ticket queue.