For us consumers, it’s virtually a full-time job to keep up with new designs from the UK’s rich seam of pickup makers. A quick check on Cream T’s new website, for example, reveals quite a few changes and some new additions that have sneaked in since we last took a look.
Along with the new Cream Of The Crop humbucker set on our Aurora Custom V2, another addition is the Spot humbucker set, although these actually go back to the early days of Cream T. “The idea to clone pickups [using Thomas Nilsen’s Pickup Oracle Machine aka the ‘super scanner’] actually came from Matthieu Lucas, the owner