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Deacci meets James Mulvaney
With a huge amount of live performance experience, Irish based guitarist James Mulvaney needs little introduction to many. An early starter on the guitar, James did his first gig with Irish act ‘Slightly Imperfect at [...]
Deacci meets Kieran Smith
Deacci wouldn't be the company that it has become if it wasn't for the "ears" of some of so many artists - many of who have been instrumental in the development of our pickups in [...]
Sometimes being single is hard / The birth of the Hofmond
Like everything in guitar, and most things in life, we all stand on someone's shoulders. No one really is inventing anything from scratch. Music, guitar pedals, amps – they all owe their existence to some [...]
Deacci – The daily wind
Winding pickups has always been seen as a bit of a dark art – shrouded in mystery and on some occasions blown out of all proportion. From the legendary status of the young women who [...]
Deacci meets Wayne McManmon
From time to time we get players who come to the workshop and blow us away with their approach to guitar. Armed with a passion for playing (and providing us with a bit of a [...]
Driven by madness – inspired by tone
When asked why he decided to set up Deacci, company owner (and chief winder) Declan Larkin’s first response was “Madness … definitely madness!” What’s evident however is that he’s driven by the ongoing mission to [...]
Adjusting Pickup Height
IMPROVE YOUR GUITAR TONE Time required 10-20 minutes Difficulty Level 1 Did your new guitars come from the factory with perfectly adjusted pickups? This is almost NEVER the case, yet spending 10 to 20 mins adjusting [...]
Mal OBrien & Teletone Mobster
Developed with and for Dublin based virtuoso Mal OBrien, the name Mobster seemed about right for this set of high output Telecaster Pickups. Roll back the volume on this set and they become almost [...]
Ariel Posen – Blackhat I Strat Single Coils
Our day with Ariel Posen covered a lot of ground, we hope you enjoy this latest video of Ariel playing a set of our vintage style Blackhat I strat pickups through a Ryan 100w Blues [...]
Ariel Posen – ST56 Strat Single Coils
Ariel is best known as one of a guitar duo that make up Brothers Landreth. Along with Joey Landreth, David Landreth and Ryan Voth, the band won a Juno award in 2015 for their album Let [...]
Vintage III Humbuckers with Mickey Murphy
"The Deacci Vintage IIIs have totally transformed my LP with crisp and bright bridge tones and a beautifully warm neck." - Mickey Murphy, December 2016 MICKEY MURPHY is a contemporary finger style guitarist and composer from [...]
You Want it When ?
A Marshall DSL and a Trainwreck Express clone have been the stable workhorse test amps for Deacci guitar pickups for many years. Recently, it became clear that something different was needed to record the sound [...]
Blackhat I Stratocaster pickups with Kieran Smith
A massive thanks to Kieran Smith for a brilliant rootsy blues playing with our vintage hot set of strat pickups. Also a very special thanks to Dave Molloy for his recording wizardry, and the most [...]
Pure Vintage Zeros in a Gibson 335 with James Mulvaney
Irish session guitarist James Mulvaney needed little introduction, so when he asked us which set of pickups we recommended for his Gibson 335 guitar, the answer on this occasion was simple. Pure Vintage Zeros. On [...]
Blackhat II HSS Strat set demo with Neil McCarthy
Every once in a while you simply have your socks blown off, and when I logged in to Facebook one morning and saw this video posted by Neil McCarthy, this was most definitely another of [...]
Ragh Guitar – Deacci Custom Vintage PAF style Humbucker & P90 combo Set
We are delighted that Ragh Guitar are using Deacci Pickups in their guitars, we are also just as pleased to say that Grant MacKay (owner of Ragh Guitar) is the kind of guy who will [...]
Making a Deacci Humbucker
Deacci pickups are wound on a precision CNC winder using our own winding algorithm, and assembled and tested in our workshop in Ireland. We hope you enjoy the following photo descriptions of building a Pure [...]
Pure Vintage I’s in a real 1959 Les Paul
Deacci Pure Vintage humbucking pickups make it into all sorts of guitars from the cheap and cheerful to one off luthier builds. Even Gibson's own custom shop Reissues regularly get our pickups as an upgrade, but to [...]
ST I & II Stratocaster Single Coil sets
We proudly add to our product range, two new sets of Stratocaster Single coils. Available in both Alnico V & II , both sets are vintage voiced to produce the sounds and tones associated with [...]
Kieran Smith Demos our LP59-II Humbuckers
Kieran Smith called to the workshop the other day to have a pickups wiring checked, and he ended up doing a demo of our Pure Vintage II Humbuckers. This set always works very well with [...]
Enamoured with enamel
For the purist tone seeker, Plain Enamel will shortly become standard on all Pure Vintage humbucker. We have to admit it does look nice too, it's almost a shame to tape these bobbins...
GuitarGear Review
The guys over at GuitarGear recently reviewed our new GreenFaze humbuckers and it seems they liked what they heard! The difference in tone between the Burst Buckers and these pickups was like night and day. Where [...]