I’ve always had an engineering mindset. From a young age, I was drawn to science and maths because they had exact answers and explanations behind every fact.

That way of thinking stayed with me, breaking problems down into parts, understanding each component, and then putting it all back together into a complete picture. That curiosity has shaped everything I do. I’ve always taken hobbies down the rabbit hole, learning to brew beer from the raw ingredients, cooking from scratch, rebuilding and modifying guitars from the ground up.

For me, the enjoyment is in understanding how things work and finding ways to make them better. That same mindset is what led me into building pickups.

I started playing guitar at seventeen and quickly fell in love with Les Pauls, first a Hagstrom copy, then a Gibson Traditional. I liked the guitar but not its Classic ‘57 pickups. I went down the rabbit hole, trying most of the popular boutique PAFs. Some were warm and vocal but too thick, others were open but too bright or sterile. None quite captured the balance I was chasing: the clear, airy high end, harmonically rich mids, and defined, articulate low end. I realised if I wanted that sound, I’d have to create it myself.

That started years of research, testing, and winding. I completely modded a Les Paul Tribute into a 54 style wraptail Goldtop, by changing the fretboard, finish, tailpiece position, parts and setup to hear how each change affected tone and feel. That same process carried into pickup design, understanding every element that made the late 50s PAFs so special and recreating it as precisely as possible.

For me, a great pickup has to balance clarity and character. It should reveal the guitar’s tone, not mask it, with enough detail to let the player’s dynamics come through, but never harsh or thin. The midrange should be complex and harmonically rich, the low end full yet controlled, and the high end open, clear and sweet.

Every pickup I build follows those principles. I use vintage-correct materials wherever possible and pair them with a precisely programmed winding pattern that mirrors vintage geometry but with perfect repeatability. Each pickup is measured for inductance, capacitance, and resistance, ensuring consistency. It is the combination of engineering precision and musical intuition that achieves vintage accuracy with modern reliability.

All pickups are wound and assembled by hand in my small UK home workshop. Every one is inspected, tested, and logged before it leaves the bench. My goal is simple: when you hear one Olemy pickup, you know exactly what to expect from the next. The same clarity, the same balance, the same character that made the originals so inspiring.

Olemy Pickups is a one-person operation, but that’s what makes it personal. Every coil, screw, and magnet passes through my hands. It is built on curiosity, guided by measurement, and driven by the belief that great tone isn’t magic, it is understanding.