the legendary Musclebucker, the SCORPIONS favourite pickup,

the sensational patented DOUBLEBUCKER, real humbucking plus real vintage singlecoil sounds.

The Scorpions guitartech Ingo Powitzer

Humbuckers are available with open coils in black, cream, zebra, white
and with german-silver covers in nickel, chrome, gold, black-chrome and antic (raw, unplated, nice vintage look).

 All open humbuckers get "blackwaxed", which means that all gaps get sealed with a spezial wax to prevent damage from sweat and dirt.

I started making pickups in 1979. Well, I had no choice, because I had to make a 7-string guitar for Juraj Galan (Check out his video). There was nothing on the market I could buy. I had to give the bobbins to another company to wind them to my specs. After my examination as a guitarmaker in 1980 I did setup an own workshop making guitars and doing lots of experiments with pickups. For example did I unwind very strong Tele pickups until I liked the sound. At that time Bill Lawrence had his pickup factory nearby and I used a lot of his pickups. In 1983 Bill did let me share his booth at the Frankfurt music fair. He told me what´s all about with pickups and how they work. Bill is the definite godfather of pickups.   So in 1983 I builded my first winding "machine". It was a 5 bucks construction and it took about half a day to wind one pickup. I mainly used it for rewinding jobs.   The situation changed when I reopened a new workshop in 1990 in Hamburg. I was making acoustic archtop guitars and urgently needed a few floating pickups. I builded a new professional winding machine with precise control over speed, turns, wire tension and guiding. As I´m not an trained electronic expert I just follow my ears when I create new pickups. My "Frankenstein" guitar helps me a lot as I can exchange pickups and circuits on-the-fly to compare. This guitar also helps a lot to find certain pickup positions. It is amazing how much the sound can change by moving a pickup just a little. The pickup-wire I use is custommade to my specifications. This is very expensive as the custom wire costs more than double of the standard one. But I believe that the sound-improvement is very worth it. All magnets I use are alnico 5, some are weakened to a certain amount to get a more vintage feel. In 2004 I got my first patent for the HBSC DOUBLEBUCKER, the first pickup on the market that can produce full humbucker and real singlecoil sounds.     "Frankenstein" pickup test guitar       I used on old body and neck that was laying around and had to stabilize the body with carbon-rods. Now it´s got pretty good sustain. Not really a beauty, but it does the job.     THE FUTURE   here is a what I´m working on at the moment. Real singlecoil sound but no hum. The "Flintstone" pickup (patent applied for). This one I made for Rick Parfitt (a real prototyp)