Our Story

                               

Space Llama Pickups’ story started with my need to work on my own instruments when the pandemic started. I went down the path of doing set-ups, building acoustic and electric guitars from scratch, to making my own guitar pickups. Although I love all of it, building pickups became a true obsession. I started by reading Jason Lollar's book along with every other book I could find on the subject. I then made the pilgrimage multiple times to Roberto Venn, to learn how to build guitar pickups from Rob Timmons of Arcane Pickups. I am now so honored to be co-teaching the Roberto Venn Pickup winding Class with Rob Timmons of Arcane Pickups. There is nothing I love more than winding pickups and passing on the knowledge that was given to me is something I very much love doing. 

Space Llama Pickups makes all of our pickups in small batches from our home base in, Flagstaff Arizona. I take pride in building high-quality hand wound and hand assembled guitar pickups. Every choice regarding the high quality materials chosen and the building process is very intentional. We even employ a vintage guitar pickup winder. At Space Llama Pickups we are proud to go to every effort to breathe life into our vintage style guitar pickups. Space Llama Pickups is proud to use this Geo Stevens guitar pickup winder as one of our primary winders. Geo Stevens made the winders that Gibson used in the golden era of guitar pickups. I love the process of building pickups and give all of my love and attention to every single pickup I make. Take a look at our selection of pickups to see how we can upgrade your guitar tone.