A bit of a gripe.

[Jeff_H]

Re: A bit of a gripe.

If we really wanna split hairs about who was dorking with JB magnets first...

Back in May of 2004, I took the A5 magnet out of my TB-4 and replaced it with the thick ceramic from a Detonator. For the aggressive, down-tuned stuff I was into at the time, the pickup sounded great and thus my ultra-stupid forum name was born. However, I'm sure someone else did it before me.

I remember when this happened. Gosh, that seems like both a long time ago and just yesterday at the same time. That was right after we switched from the old forum software to this current version. That's why the oldest join date you will see in any members profile is Mar 2004. I think I joined this forum in late 2001, but it may have been 2002. Fun times.

Funny how we all relate to time passing in our own way.

 

[Cullenszoo]

Re: A bit of a gripe.

The best I can tell, the sum of this work has been putting a ceramic bar into a JB, then mention the fact in a blog post and on facebook. It seems like you've put more energy into this grievance than you did the project itself.

It's a bit more involved than that. There are specs about the magnet that I don't go into detail about. As for posts, I talked about in a guitar builder group and recording groups. I also give it some mention during song releases and playing live.

But, If we want to get real about things, SD has been taking the coils of one pup, putting a different magnet in it and calling it something else for a long time. That seems to be pretty common practice.

 

[Jacew]

Re: A bit of a gripe.

It's a bit more involved than that. There are specs about the magnet that I don't go into detail about. As for posts, I talked about in a guitar builder group and recording groups. I also give it some mention during song releases and playing live.

But, If we want to get real about things, SD has been taking the coils of one pup, putting a different magnet in it and calling it something else for a long time. That seems to be pretty common practice.

Yes, in their own products. Taking pickup designed and built by someone else and switching the magnet is entirely different thing.

You need some perspective here: Your "product" is a modded aftermarket pickup. It has some similarities with "Lynch signature" products (JB wind with ceramic magnet), it's in "Lynch signature" guitar and you call it "The Hunter".

Now SD (original designer and builder of said pickup) is bringing out "Lynch signature" product in cooperation with George Lynch. And it just happens to have the same name.

I'd understand your complaints if it really was about original idea instead of a fan-built copycat thing...

 

[CaptainWhizz]

Re: A bit of a gripe.

But, If we want to get real about things, SD has been taking the coils of one pup, putting a different magnet in it and calling it something else for a long time. That seems to be pretty common practice.

Yes, their own pickups, that they developed. Bare Knuckle has the alnico and ceramic Warpig (IIRC).
Compared to pedals, where a Keeley-modded Blues Driver is still a Boss pedal, whereas pedals Robert Keeley has built from the ground up are Keeley pedals (even when based on circuits designed by other people).

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: A bit of a gripe.

I remember when this happened. Gosh, that seems like both a long time ago and just yesterday at the same time. That was right after we switched from the old forum software to this current version. That's why the oldest join date you will see in any members profile is Mar 2004. I think I joined this forum in late 2001, but it may have been 2002. Fun times.

Funny how we all relate to time passing in our own way.

I joined sometime in ‘03 I think, got the aforementioned JB and an Invader, then went awhile without internet service, hence the several months late join date. Can’t even remember what my original name was.