Duncan Made D’Aquisto Pickup

Kesmith1

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Duncan Made D’Aquisto Pickup

I have a 1999 Fender D’Aquisto Deluxe guitar. Mint condition! It was built by Stephen Stern. He signed the back plate of the guitar. I’m a player - everything about it’s playability in a jazz guitar is awesome! In Tom Wheelers book “The Fender Custom Shop” he states that James D’Aquisto wanted a working man’s jazz guitar. For this guitar , that he designed and Stephen Stern built, he wanted a pickup that was more like the old Guild/DeArmound. He gave those specs and request to build a pickup like this to Seymour Duncan. That was a very rare pickup. At some point in the history of the guitar it was replaced by a hybrid Telecaster pickup with a DiMarzio ring. The my question here is, and it’s more than likely go into be answered by an administrator or a Technician, “Does Seymour Duncan still have the specs for the pickup that he made for James D’Aquisto?” If so can the Custom Shop at Seymour Duncan make that pickup for me?
 
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If Duncan designed that pickup, they have the specs. I'd contact the Custom Shop and find out the details- and get a quote (and share the specs with us here).
 
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IIRC, it was based on a unpotted, nickel-covered tweaked '59n wind with butyrate bobbins, and with a different magnet than the stock A5, which I unfortunately don't have any factual info about it, although I think it most likely was a fully-charged, american-made Roughcast A2.

As an actual user of an nickel covered, A3n/A2b-modded '59 set with my ES-339, a "lowly" A3-modded retail nickel covered '59n would sound marvelously with such a D'Aquisto instrument.

/Peter
 
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