Do all covered pickups have the logo or not?

[FuzzWatt]

I'm looking to get a set of Duncans and like most guitar players, I'm a bit fussy when it comes to aesthetics. Love Duncans, don't care for the logo.

My question is; do all covered Duncans have the logo or not? I don't want the covers but I'm willing to pay the premium for them, take them off and scrape off the excess wax if it means no logo. As far as I can tell, no one has yet discovered a way to easily remove the screen logo without permanently marking the plastic in some way.

 

[Mincer]

Welcome to the forum!
Which pickups are you looking at?

Generally, the passive aftermarket Duncans with a cover don't have the logo. Some of the passive ones that come in factory guitars (OEM) have a logo. The active pickups with a cover have a logo. You can always order specific pickups with or without a logo.

 

[Zheddar]

All the retail passive Seymour Duncan humbuckers that I have purchased with covers end up having no logo and no cloth tape underneath the covers. I don't know how much that helps, but considering that they are so behind on production right now that one has to pay custom shop pricing for shop floor custom options like no logo, I can understand wanting to know.

 

[Artie]

It's also interesting that all my Duncan Designed covered pickups, (including my DD Lipstick Tubes), say "Duncan Designed" on them. USA covered pickups seldom, if ever, do.

 

[beaubrummels]

I imagine that's a production line characteristic. For Designed, they might just make all the pickups on the same line, then grab a percentage and put covers on them, whereas Duncan in Santa Barbara might have separate production lines for target pickups and don't run all the bobbins through the pad printer if not necessary.

 

[Artie]

Not only that, but I'm guessing that if they install DD's into something stock, they want to distinguish them from something like Artek's or Flior's.

 

[The Dali]

I’ve not had any issues removing the duncan logos.


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[jeremy]

you can get any duncan pup without a logo as a shop floor custom, just might take a bit longer if no one has it in stock

 

[JB6464]

I’ve not had any issues removing the duncan logos.


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What is your technique for removing the logo ?

 

[Mincer]

I've used a tiny bit of Brasso, and that works.

 

[FuzzWatt]

I’ve not had any issues removing the duncan logos.


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What's your method?

 

[FuzzWatt]

I've used a tiny bit of Brasso, and that works.

No hazing on the plastic afterwards or anything?

 

[FuzzWatt]

Which pickups are you looking at?

I'm looking at getting the Whole Lotta Humbucker set.

 

[jeremy]

i have a covered wlh set, i took the cover off the neck and there is no logo

 

[PDC]

I have used 3M Ultrafina (baby blue colored automotive finishing polish) to remove the Seymour Duncan Logo on their pickups with no hazing. Brasso also works very well.

 

[Mincer]

No hazing on the plastic afterwards or anything?

In my case, you could never tell a logo was on there. As far as covered WLH, there isn't a logo on the cover, and I've never seen a logo under the cover, either.

 

[The Dali]

Correct - as Mincer does, I use a little bit of Brasso and some elbow grease and looks perfect. If there is any hazing I will do the other bobbin to match, but in most cases it looks perfect.