Chances are you’ll have played a guitar – or even purchased one – with a Wilkinson pickup on it and, odds on, it’ll be an instrument with a pretty lowly price tag. In fact, although Trev Wilkinson has designed hardware that has, and is, used by many top pros (and we can include the late, great Jeff Beck here) via licensing deals with numerous Asian factories, affordability has been central to the brand for a few decades now. It’s often said that you can successfully go down in price point – Gibson/Epiphone, Fender/ Squier, PRS USA/PRS SE and so on – but going the other way is less common. And yet that’s exactly what Trev has done with a raft of new ‘premium’ hardware and – get to the point! – a new range of R Series pickups that includes single coils and humbuckers for the usual suspects.
The new Wilkinson website states: “The R series of pickups is the result of years of listening to
