Category: Warmanisers

Warmanisers Players, builders, bands etc.

A mixed breed of Players, builders, bands etc. who have all embraced the culture of Warmanite and the brand we all know and love for its ability to provide you with great tone at an even greater price.

Browse the guitar goodies and creations for inspiration on builds, upgrades or just changing things up for the sake of it.

These are all real world, unsolicited examples of Warman Guitars pickups out thee in the wild world doing their Thang.

Warman® Guitars designs affordable humbucker and single coil pickups for electric guitar upgrades, helping players worldwide improve tone, output, and reliability without paying boutique pickup prices.

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Another Warmanizer – Hilditch Handmade Guitars

Having learnt to play at nine years old, Mark Hilditch (now 32) has had a love for guitars from a young age. Starting his journey on a classical guitar, Mark soon realised he wanted to be a bit more ‘rock n roll’ and moved to an electric. As he progressed with playing, he became more interested in the workings of electric guitars. He went on to build his first fully working model at age 15 as part of his school qualification in design and technology. However, not being content with the designs available off the shelf and a deep desire the break the mould and really stand out, Mark decided to scratch an itch with his own body design (which later came to be known as Thundabolt)

Mark still has this guitar and even played it in his band at his own wedding in 2019.

Guitars took a bit of a back seat for a while whilst he raised his young family, but in 2015 he got that itch again and just had to make his second instrument. Then when he became a bench joiner in a fine furniture workshop a few years later, he suddenly found himself with access to some of the best grades of timber and all the fancy woodwork machinery he could dream of, and so Hilditch Handmade Guitars was born. Another shape was developed and given the name ‘Tao’, Chinese for way or journey (aptly named for the start of his guitar building journey).

Mark has always had a keen interest in woodwork, how things work and of course guitars. All these elements combined with his desire to be different and an eye for detail has led him to design his own models with aim of making Hilditch Guitars stand out from the crowd. Now a site joiner for a timber roundhouse company, he is still managing to keep building his dream and balancing a busy family life too.

The guitar shown in the accompanying photos is one of Marks recent handmade creations. This model is called ‘Thundabolt’ Solid Ash bodyMaple and Padauk neck, Gotoh 510 wrap around bridge, Master volume and tone, 3 way selector, Wilkinson Ezi lock tuners, 25″ scale, 24 frets and of course Warman Loki humbuckers.

You can see more of Mark’s work and contact him at

https://www.hilditchguitars.com

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Groove Babies – how do they sound ?

You’ve probably seen our Alnico 2 60’s inspired Groove Babies on the website and wondered how they sound. You’re also probably maddened by the fact that we refuse to produce our own sound clips as we believe its better that people put up genuine real world sound clips of pickups that they are impressed with rather than some factory focussed ( and possibly tweaked ) version produced in house by us.

Well after a few months of being introduced we’ve now found a sound clip of the Groove Babies and the link is below.

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Warman Drivetrain, Quake 1 and 3 independent tone review

Warman Drivetrain. Insane high output overwound electric guitar humbucking pickup

Ladies, Gentlemen, Fine People and Goatherds – Ever since we set up Warman Guitars, some 10+ years ago now, we’ve been asked for sound clips of our pickups. Infuriatingly for those asking the question I’ve always come back with the rather odd ( well they thought so ) response that we don’t actually ever produce nor publish our own sound samples of the pickups. My reasoning behind this is that by not doing so we can never be accused of altering or tweaking the sound clips to sound how we want them. We’ve always hoped that out of the many happy customer we have that some people, some where, will be impressed enough by a mix of their own financial acumen and the sound our offering make to post their own, undoctored and not interfered with by us, sound clips / videos of Warman pickups.

Over time this has proven to be true and there are now many YouTube videos dotted around the Interweb where you can listen to real customers sound clips and their comments upon what we do. One such individual is Robert McClellan. Robert is totally independent of Warman, I’ve never met him, we don’t pay anything and he has no connection with our business but oh my word does he produce some in-depth product reviews on all things guitar and home recording. I’ve posted the link / video of his review of our Drivetrain and the Quakes 1 and 3 below for your delectation and, as the man says during it, its worth your while subscribing to his YouTube channel for a host of other content and independent reviews on the things that will interest you. So without further ado.

Independent review of the Warman Drivetrain, Quake 1 and Quake 3 guitar pickups