RJ ALPHA COILS
RJ Alpha Coils pack a punch while faithfully reproducing your favorite vintage tones. These pickups combine our expert hand-winding processes with magnets from the USA to produce a lush tone of deep, controlled bass, precise and articulate midrange, and a bright, shimmering high-end.
RJ CUSTOM SHOP PICKUPS STORY
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RJ Guitars' origins are traced to RJ Custom Shop's pickups.
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In 1988 RJ Jacinto, being one of the original electric guitarists in the Philippines in the 60's, was getting exasperated switching between his Fender Jazzmaster and his Gibson Les Paul during performances at Bistro RJ, RJ approached low-key guitar luthier Rudy Discipulo (the Godfather of Philippine luthiers) to make a guitar versatile enough to produce all the tones he needed. Rudy came up with the Series One Roadtone which met RJ’s specifications (it was able to reproduce RJ's essential guitar tones of the Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, Fender Jazzmaster, Gibson Les Paul and the Gibson ES-335). RJ was so impressed with Rudy's workmanship, RJ asked Rudy to embark on a journey that would turn out to be RJ Guitars.
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This would later be refined into the RJ Supervintage 5-Guitars-in-1, the flagship of RJ Guitars.
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Over the decades, RJ Guitars further refined the pickup formula and winding techniques with the finest essential components made in the USA to RJ’s specifications into what is now the RJ Custom Shop pickups.