Kinman Guitar Electrix

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Kinman Guitar Electrix is a small boutique Australian company that specializes in the design and manufacture of hi-tech innovative Zero-Hum pickups for electric guitars that solve noise problems associated with single coil pickups. They also manufacture pickup wiring harnesses that do not require soldering ("No Soldering harness").

One of its most acclaimed products is the Kinman Hx (an initialism for Hum cancelling) pickup, a patented noiseless pickup design developed in 1996 by its inventor, Chris Kinman, as a direct drop-in replacement for Fender Stratocaster style single coil pickups. Most of the models in the Kinman line carry the designation AVn, an initialism for Authentic Vintage noiseless.

Kinman also developed technology in 1998 to specifically suit Telecaster guitars. The technology centers around a revolutionary laminated steel H bobbin that functions as a noise sensing coil. It is made of 150 separate pieces of steel and is a world first in guitar pickups. Kinman claims his H-core performs over 200% more efficiently than an equivalent conventional noise sensing bobbin and therefore minimizes the noise sensing coil so it has virtually no impact in the sonic signature of the pickup.

More recently Kinman has developed a series of NoSoldering Harness for Stratocasters and Telecasters that allow guitar players who possess no soldering equipment or soldering skills to install Kinman pickups into their guitar. The versatile K9 Harness for Strats and Teles feature an unobtrusive switching system that facilitate 9 distinctive and useful sounds from the 3 pickups, all combinations are noise free.

1 Patents
2 Notable users of Kinman pickups
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Patents

Chris Kinman has been awarded the following US patents:

USA Patent Number 5,668,520 issued 1997
USA Patent Number 5,834,999 issued 1998
USA Patent Number 6,103,966 issued 2000
USA Patent Number 29/240,940 issued 2006
USA Patent Number 7,022,909 issued 2006

[edit] Notable users of Kinman pickups

Players who use Kinman AVn pickups include^[1]:

Brad Paisley; Broadcaster bridge pickup
Hank Marvin (The Shadows); FV-HMS set
Scott Henderson; AVn-56 Mk-II x 3
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd); Woodstock Regular set
Prince; (unknown Strat models)
Bonnie Raitt; Blues set
Gary Moore; Blues set & Woodstock Regular set
Guthrie Govan (ASIA); Blues set
Jan Akkerman; AVn-62
David Crosby; (CSNY)
David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel)
Mick Box (Uriah Heep); Blues set
Peter Tork (The Monkees); Blues set
Dave Stewart; (Eurythmics)
Anthony Drennan (The Corrs & Genesis); Traditional set, Blues set, Broadcaster set
Jackson Browne; Hank Marvin CV-HMS set
John Farrar, (ex Shadows, ex Strangers)
Terje Rypdal, Blues set