Toasted Heretic

[Dr. Frankenrick]

I found a guy in the UK on the Rickenfaker Facebook page who is making “authentic” Toaster covers out of pressed non-ferretic steel. I say authentic because they are the correct height and have the rounded corners unlike the other non-Rick replacements out there. He told me the cost of tooling alone to make these was £15k!

So I had him ship a couple of covers to Oil City Pickups in London, where they made me a couple of non-standard Toasters. One is an Alnico 3 Strat pickup wound with heavy formvar, while the other is an Alnico 2 Firebird with plain enamel.

My 360/12 still sounds like a Rick, but the new pickups have really tightened and sweetened things up compared to the Hi Gains I took out.

[Uffingdon]

Wow 15k tooling costs!
I wonder how many covers will have to be sold to break even?

[Dr. Frankenrick]

Wow 15k tooling costs!
I wonder how many covers will have to be sold to break even?

I know. Go big or go home. I’ve just ordered another one to get a short magnet Toaster made for surface mounting in the middle position.

[Dr. Frankenrick]

Short magnet Toaster by Oil City Pickups in the UK. Alnico 5 magnets and heavy formvar 44 gauge wire wound to 7.9k.

Cover is from the same source as before though unfortunately, maybe not surprisingly, the guy is no longer making the covers. I’m glad I availed of what he was offering while he was.