Double cream Distortion featured in official SD Facebook post

It doesn't look exactly like double cream to me either.

Also they could perfectly legally sell all the double cream they like on the export market anywhere outside the US.
 
I am guessing the 'cream' that is contested refers to a particular Pantone color? Even with pickups described as cream have a lot of variation.
 
There is a simple reason: there are two different bobbin materials, butyrate and abs.
Butyrate was used in the old times and now only on Duncan's vintage style pickups like Ants, 59, PG, APH and CS Pickups. Butyrate is delicate, smells funny and it is softer.
Most others are made of ABS.
When new they have both the same color, over the years butyrate changes its colour to a yellower tint.
 
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Mincer said:
I am guessing the 'cream' that is contested refers to a particular Pantone color? Even with pickups described as cream have a lot of variation.
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I think its the particular shade, like ups brown, as well as having the word cream in the name with any reasonably close shade.

I also believe that rail humbuckers are exempt? Wilde and Bill Lawrence have been selling double cream l500s for years with no lawsuits.
im no expert though.
 
Juanhanglo said:
I think its the particular shade, like ups brown, as well as having the word cream in the name with any reasonably close shade.

I also believe that rail humbuckers are exempt? Wilde and Bill Lawrence have been selling double cream l500s for years with no lawsuits.
im no expert though.
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Yeah, I don't think it covers single coils or single coil-sized humbuckers, either. Also, I've seen double cream Kiesels when they were using 22 pole pickups.
 
Mincer said:
Yeah, I don't think it covers single coils or single coil-sized humbuckers, either. Also, I've seen double cream Kiesels when they were using 22 pole pickups.
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This reads like PATB's should be eligible as well.

I have acquired more than my fair share of the SD's over the years. Some originally covered and some made by combining Zebra and Reverse pup coils. Ultimately, outside of wanting the Ace look on my Cherry Sunburst LP, I do not have as many uses for them as I have actual double creme pickups. Plus the tone of my Standard Garden Variety Double Black SD's is just as good.

I still maintain the greatest travesty with that other guy's double creme pups was Tom Scholz carving up all those Gold Top LP Deluxe's for them, as that was where he found his tone.
 
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