Can someone clue me in on this "production floor custom" line of SD pickups?

[superpete]

yeah about a year ago i think was the first time i saw they weren't. but they definitely used to be. i have one that i called and got direct from duncan

[Leon Of Late]

In the old, old, old days, we could get “double white” bobbins as a shop floor custom. If I had known that would ever end, I would have stocked up on all of my favorites and now have a shelf full of NOS cream, for my own personal enjoyment.

[nexion218]

It's definitely worth asking. The site says that only standard size hbs are available for bobbin color swap, but they did my f-spaced BW in whitebwithout a problem. I guess it doesn't hurt if the dealer is in a good relatoonship with SD.

[Mincer]

Like I said, the page I referenced above is a few years old. I would ask the dealer to contact SD and find out if whatever you want is covered by this particular program. In fact, I might order something soon, too.

[ArtieToo]

In the old, old, old days, we could get “double white” bobbins as a shop floor custom. If I had known that would ever end, I would have stocked up on all of my favorites and now have a shelf full of NOS cream, for my own personal enjoyment.

I may be misunderstanding what you're saying here, but almost ALL Duncan humbuckers can still be ordered with double-white bobbins. It's not even SFC. It's just a standard production color. Did you mean double-cream? That's the "sticky" point.

[dave74]

Yeah that's what Leon OL means I'm sure. He can throw an iron boot at me for pretending to speak for him lol

[ArtieToo]

Yeah that's what Leon OL means I'm sure. He can throw an iron boot at me for pretending to speak for him lol

I just got my first double-white a few months ago. I'm really warming up to it as a nice alternative to the standard black. It does however, need the right color guitar and/or pickguard to work.

[Mincer]

I have 2 double whites in my Music Man. I did order them through a dealer, but I don't think it was any more expensive than double black.

[Ace Flibble]

Getting a UK or western-EU dealer to order any "floor customs" is blood-out-of-a-stone work and when they do agree they always slap on an extravagant premium of their own; I've ended up waiting for creations I want to turn up on US eBay and importing them, as even with the shipping and import fees it ends up being a lot cheaper than getting a local dealer to make the order. I don't know what can be done, if it's a matter with a middleman distributor or what, but I hope SD can work out something to make custom work more accessible to the EU(and/or UK). Hell, even just getting a nickel or gold covered pickup is a bit of a mission here...

Though FWIW my "floor" white-and-gold Invader and gold-covered, black pole Full Shred set are my favourite pickups in my collection, period.

[Leon Of Late]

Yeah that's what Leon OL means I'm sure. He can throw an iron boot at me for pretending to speak for him lol

I did indeed mean double cream. Thanks Dave, no iron boot required, LOL.