EMG

I tinker with guitars, basses, and other stringed instruments.  There a several companies I utilize for these homebrew creations - the first I'll mention is EMG.

EMG is known for their stealth-black active pickups, found in many shredder's guitars and modern basses.  They also make some really nice sounding passive pickups.  I've always liked EMG's products, and I like the company too - they think out of the box, delivering stuff no one else in the industry does.