Jack Smith
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Around 1976 or 1977 I bought a pickup at a guitar store that was only in business from 1974 to 1977. As I remember it was a Seymore Duncan Strat style humbucker type stack with a steel baseplate, but it only has two wires coming from the coil, one red and one white, which are inside a shielded wire. The shielding is soldered to the metal baseplate, neither conductor is attached to the shielding.
It has an ivory colored cover, is potted, with staggered poles and came in an STK-S1neck/middle Classic Stack box fitted nicely in black foam which over the years sort of melted onto the pickup cover. The baseplate has also come loose and needs to be re-affixed, which is something I have never done. If someone can advise how to safely re-stick the baseplate I would be greatly appreciative. I know it involves wax and heat and tiny fragile wires which is concerning to me as I have never ever done any work on a pickup. I’ve built guitars on and off since 1971, and had more fun than I ever dreamed, but never a pickup.
Back to the small mystery... this pickup only has 2 conductors, it is not tapped like the STK-S1. It was sold to me for the bridge position by a friend of many years who owned a guitar shop and never steered me wrong. I also bought a DeArmond humbucker 2200-B for the neck position (made in Toledo, Ohio) and a 1956 Fender Deluxe amp from him that day.
I have no reason to doubt that I purchased a Seymore Duncan pickup made at 203 Chapala St. (I still have the box and instructions), but the pickup never had Seymore Duncan printed on it and the outputs don’t match the box which is for a tapped pickup.
So did Seymore Duncan make a two conductor Strat style humbucking stack with a steel baseplate “back in the day”? (I’m thinking maybe someone put the pickup back in the wrong box). And were there early made pickups that were not stamped with Seymore Duncan?
Whatever the case may be, the pickups, are finally going into a neck through mahogany guitar I am finally getting around to finishing out.
This is my first post ever...anywhere... hope I didn’t hit any wrong buttons or anything.
It has an ivory colored cover, is potted, with staggered poles and came in an STK-S1neck/middle Classic Stack box fitted nicely in black foam which over the years sort of melted onto the pickup cover. The baseplate has also come loose and needs to be re-affixed, which is something I have never done. If someone can advise how to safely re-stick the baseplate I would be greatly appreciative. I know it involves wax and heat and tiny fragile wires which is concerning to me as I have never ever done any work on a pickup. I’ve built guitars on and off since 1971, and had more fun than I ever dreamed, but never a pickup.
Back to the small mystery... this pickup only has 2 conductors, it is not tapped like the STK-S1. It was sold to me for the bridge position by a friend of many years who owned a guitar shop and never steered me wrong. I also bought a DeArmond humbucker 2200-B for the neck position (made in Toledo, Ohio) and a 1956 Fender Deluxe amp from him that day.
I have no reason to doubt that I purchased a Seymore Duncan pickup made at 203 Chapala St. (I still have the box and instructions), but the pickup never had Seymore Duncan printed on it and the outputs don’t match the box which is for a tapped pickup.
So did Seymore Duncan make a two conductor Strat style humbucking stack with a steel baseplate “back in the day”? (I’m thinking maybe someone put the pickup back in the wrong box). And were there early made pickups that were not stamped with Seymore Duncan?
Whatever the case may be, the pickups, are finally going into a neck through mahogany guitar I am finally getting around to finishing out.
This is my first post ever...anywhere... hope I didn’t hit any wrong buttons or anything.
