Re: Is Seymour Duncan Stealing Pickup Ideas?
Okay, a couple of important points here:
1. Until this post began, nobody at Seymour Duncan even knew who Steve Kerling was (no disrespect intended), or that he made custom pickups. In addition, we have never heard of, or seen, the Dualtone II---which certainly appears to be a similar pickup.
2. MJ tells me that the first time she built a "Stra-90" was close to ten years ago. She only recently decided to add it to the custom shop list of "things we will build".
3. Our custom shop builds whatever people ask us to build for them. We don't design pickups and then market them as "custom" offerings. If someone asks us to build something like a "Stra-90", then we will---and THEN we may end up listing it as something we can build.
4. If there is an existing patent on this design, and we are infringing upon it by building "Stra-90-s", then we will, of course, respectfully cease and desist if asked to do so. No such request has been made as of yet.
5. The suggestion that we are "passing off the Stra-90 HB as our own design when in fact it appears a copy of Dualtone ll by S.K." is inappropriate---especially considering that no one actually called MJ or Seymour to get the answer straight from them.
