Weirdest Looking Pickups

[eclecticsynergy]

I always thought those G&L Comanche pickups were cool.

[Dave Locher]

Twice in my life I owned Eko Vox hollowbodies with the big rectangular white single coil pickups. Terrible weak, shrill things but they look cool and can be used as vocal microphones if necessary...

[Dave Locher]

Oh, and let's not forget Rickenbacker and Mosrite!

[ArtieToo]

Almost forgot about Q-Tuners: https://www.q-tuner.com





And, they come in Silver wire.

[ArtieToo]

And perhaps Duncan & Co. deserves a little shout-out for their new cover options:

[JOLLY]

Railhammer

[jeremy]

i have a set of the railhamers vintage and they are really nice and work as advertised. they came in a guitar i bought and was pleasantly surprised with how great they sounded.

the old gibson mudbucker has coils oriented the same as those qtuner pups but with adjustable pole pieces between the coils. i have one downstairs, ill try and remember to grab a pic

[Mincer]

And perhaps Duncan & Co. deserves a little shout-out for their new cover options:

The pickups I just ordered will look like the black ones on the end here.

[ArtieToo]

The pickups I just ordered will look like the black ones on the end here.

I think that's a wicked look. Should be sweet in the right guitar.

[Drak]

those gibson v shaped pups always seemed weird to me. id love to see under the cover to know whats goin on

Those V shaped pickups were designed by Bill Lawrence while he was working for Gibson at the time.
Maybe even manufactured by him.
I believe Bill had his own pickup manufacturing thing going before Gibson hired him, and he maintained his own shop facilities while working for Gibson.

Anyway, he designed the Marauder and S-1 pickups as well, which there are many pics of online, compared to the V's, which are a little rare but not super-rare.
The V's have that black epoxy underneath them that other Gibson HB's had at the time.
I had an ES-347 for a few years that had tapped 8k-16k HB's in them with the same black epoxy.
And I think those V-shaped pickups would be nearly the exact same kind of construction as Bill used in the Marauders and S-1's.
Encased in epoxy and all that.
The Marauders were clear epoxy, the V's (and other HB's from Gibson at the time) were black epoxy.
But, AFAIK, No-one else was filling pickups with epoxy, that was a Bill Lawrence invention.

Those Marauder pickups measure around 2.3k and I believe are humbuckers wired in parallel.
So that would be two coils of around 4.5 or 4.6k each.
I believe the V pickups follow similar construction except its 3-strings-per-coil instead of being side-by-side as the Marauders and S-1's were.
Complete flop and fail to put pickups that work for jazz into a super-cool looking Flying V, total design face-plant.

[Securb]

Fender Triplebucker

[gsammo79]

And perhaps Duncan & Co. deserves a little shout-out for their new cover options:

I like all three of these options a lot. The first two have a classy look

[formula73]

No Ibanez triplebucker thing?

[Mincer]

I remember this thing, and I remember it sounded pretty bad, too.

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

Goodness there is a whole lot of ugly in this thread!