• T-180 Silverton Thunder genuine Collins custom hand wound vintage pickup set with some modern touches and made from the finest materials
  • Silverton Thunder
    is modeled after the later model Strats with a humbucker bridge, with overwound single coil pickups with vintage stagger .187 Alnico 5 magnets oriented S-N-S spec and calibrated for strength
    These pickups are overwound progressively to bridge for balance
    So what is progressive overwinding? The neck pickup is modeled and additional windings are added in percentages to middle and bridge to raise the midrange and output and to maintain balance when switching between pickups 
    High quality vulcanized fiber flatwork red .062 top with period correct gray .093  bottoms and White bobbins with Silver Nickel baseplates.
    Designed to fit Stratocasters and HSS model guitars with Floyd Rose tremolo style bridges.
    Made in the U.S.A. hand wound in Texas in my own shop
  • Though ohms are subject to change in temperature these read around
  • 6.68 K (neck) 3.18 Henries
  • 7.00 K (mid) 3.58 Henries
  • 8.57 K (bridge) 4.82 Henries
    measured around 70 degrees


  • Single coils are black to ground white to hot
  • Humbucker is: a 4 conductor shielded wiring and can be wired for standard humbucking or as coil tap or for phasing use color code to design your hookups
    Wiring color code diagram:
    Red = +
    Black = -
    White = finish screw side
    Green = finish slug side
    Bare = ground
    (Solder white and green together for traditional humbucking)
    For any phasing issues reverse red and black
  • The sandcast alnico 5 magnets on single coils were sealed before winding in my own resin formula to prevent magnet to wire failure.
    The bridge has a polished Alnico 5 bar magnet fully charged
    Wound with a beautiful bright red modern poly AWG42 wire and potted in paraffin/bees wax to silence microphonics.

    Vintage black/white cloth wiring about 12" long for the most demanding hookups. Vintage surgical rubber tubing on single coils with nickel screws
      and springs on humbucker


  • 52mm spacing profile on single coils
  • "F" spacing on bridge

    Note: These  Model T-180 scatterwound pickups will hum cancel in the 4th and 2nd positions
  • They have all the quack and chime early single coils are known for and the flat out punch of the vintage humbuckers
    Dripping with tone and ready to rock


    They will shine in Psychedelic Blues, Blues Rock, Rock, Jazz, Country any genre you want to put them through

    Much of your tone is in your hands while no one can promise that you will play like Hendrix, Clapton, Gallagher or Blackmore by a pickup upgrade you will have the tools at your disposal to take you there
  •  Collins handwound pickups professional tools for the professional and novice musician