So, what pickups do you "have on hand" these days?

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Did a little consolidation and took stock of the tone bricks floating around that didn't have a home. Not too many. More than I have guitars for - meaning I'm good with the pickup combinations in most everything...

Gibsons
- P100 set
- 57 Classic and 57 Classic + in Zebra
- T-top

DiMarzio
- PAF - double cream

Duncan
- Duncan Design 103
- 59 neck - double cream
- 59/C Pre-production in Double cream (made by Odie)
- JB8

Dean
- Baker Act with Gold cover (which has a dedicated home in a three brick Cadillac on of these days). Might put the 59/C and 59 in that too. Baker/59C/59...
 
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I have a Custom Custom, and the stock pickups out of a Music Man USA Sub1 guitar. I also have the stock pickups out of a 1980 Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion.
 
Boy, there was a time when I was better stocked than top shelf music stores... these days I have a couple of guards with Guitar Madness pickups and a Fender vintage 63 P bass pickup
 
I have over 150 pickups in stock. At least 30 are Bill Lawrence (guitar, bass, and pedal steel), around 20 Duncans. Other brands - DiMarzio, Lindy Fralin, Jason Lollar, Wilkinson, Gretsch, Ibanez, Bartolini, EMG, Joe Barden, Lace Sensors, Nordstrand, Artec, Gibson, etc. This is new stuff, and used. Brand new, trade-ins, take outs - you name it. I have them all in 2 large wooden boxes that I cannot carry.

I also have tuners of all kinds running out my ears, bridges and tailpieces, all sorts of hardware. And according to my latest lists, over 30 bodies (half are Warmoth), and 40 necks (maybe a third are Warmoth). Also 28 stringed instruments of all kinds, some needed repair, some not. Empty cases, too. Over 7 pounds of bone nuts. Enough string sets to start a music store (including 2 sets of strings for a Chromaharp), violin strings, viola strings, mandolin, mandola, and mandocello sets. This is acoustic and electric.

Plus picks, tuners, and small accessories. Finally, a Marshall amp, a Fender, a BOSS Katana Mini, BOSS 50 watt Katana, a Behringer bass amp, and bags of straps and cords. It's ENTIRELY too much for one guy. Fills 3 rooms. Oh, yeah - forgot - enough exotic and domestic lumber to build probably 30 guitars.

Don't get me started on tools, supplies, and machinery for the shop or I'll be here all day.
 
I have no clue what's down there, with the exception of my gold WLH set and a P rails, but there are probably a half-dozen more down there.
 
Not many. If memory serves -

498T

Elysian Trident II neck

BKP:
Brute Force 7 bridge
Rebel Yell 7 bridge (edit - installed this one today)
Warpig 7 neck

JB/Brute Force 7 neck hybrid
the other halves of those

Once I get some more replacement parts and finish tinkering, most of those will have places to live.
 
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I've liquidated my pickups. Except I've got a Burstbucker 2 and 3 waiting for a 1 I can make hybrids with. The rest I've either given away, thrown away, or broken in failed experiments.
 
Let's see....
  1. Duncan Alnico 2 Pro neck humbucker (black)
  2. Duncan Alnico 2 Pro Strat pickup
  3. Duncan Jerry Donahue Tele pickup
  4. Duncan Alnico 2 Pro Tele pickup set
  5. Import humbucker that came out of my ESP LTD TE-202
  6. Duncan 59 (black)
  7. A bunch of Fender Telecaster pickups, various models
  8. A set of Strat pickups, no idea of the vendor. I got them when they came in a Strat I traded for.
  9. HSH set I just removed from my PRS Swamp Ash Special SE
 
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I still have one each of all production SDs that were out ca. 2014 (except Tele) from when I did a lot of tone chasing. Should have a fire sale.
 
I have a JB/JAZZ set in black
a Gibson DS1 set , double slug pickups from their economy line guitars
tons of off brand stock pickups from cheap guitars
I got a set of dbl cream MaxCheer pickups that I just tole my buddy he could put in his Green headless

Singles

Piezo pads

Piezo TOM bridges
 
I actually just sold almost all of my spare pickups.

I just have one of those Seymour Duncan IBZ Duncan Distortion with the hex polepieces, and a disasembled P Rails that I took the magnets out of to do some magnet swaps.

I also have one of those cheapie Music Lily hot rails style pickups off Amazon that sounds super harsh and weak, LOL.
 
A couple Screamin Demons, Perpetual Burn, Custom Custom, DiMarzio Super Distortion, Suhr SSV neck and a Suhr SSH+ (both Suhrs are for sale).

Updated 7/15/2024.
 
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Afterburner bridge (Cream T pickups)
Duncan custom shop (12k a5 "Eliminator" concept)
'59 Clone (Brandonwound pickups)
 
Gibson 498T / 490T set
Gibson Burstbucker A4
Electric City T-Top
Duncan Designed HB103
Duncan Designed Hot Rails (middle, neck)
Duncan 59/C trembucker
Duncan '78 Model trembucker Custom Shop version
Duncan Black Winter set
Duncan Custom Custom
Duncan Jazz Bridge JMB
Duncan Distortion DD/J
Duncan 59B/J
Duncan Pearly Gates bridge PGB/J
Duncan JB (1970's Seymour-wound)
Duncan JB/A2 80s/90s, no winder initial
Duncan JB modern production
Duncan Parallel Axis 3B/L
Duncan Screamin' Demon trembucker
Duncan P-Rails set
Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker set
Duncan StagMag
Duncan Custom 5
Duncan Custom
Duncan Pearly Gates neck
Duncan Jazz neck (gold)
Duncan Jazz neck 35th Anniversary
Duncan 59 set (2x)
Duncan Full Shred bridge trembucker
Duncan Perpetual Burn
Duncan Seth Lover bridge and neck
Duncan Skinnerburst set
Duncan Brobucker
Duncan T-Deco
Duncan Pearly/A2P neck hybrid (Theodie)
Duncan Antiquity P-90 set, dogear
Duncan Antiquity 60's Tele set
Duncan Firebird (Seymourized version?)
Duncan Classic Stack set
Duncan Vintage Rails (bridge and neck)
Duncan Cool Rails neck

...off the top of my head. I think there's a few others I can't recall.
 
Cool rails neck,
Classic stack,
Pearly Gates trembucker bridge,
Blues Saraceno bridge
Custom set (sh-5 & sh-11 from one of my Hamers)
Set of tele pickups from an Ashton
Set of fender pickups from a '91 am std strat
...and the stock humbucker from my Hohner strat copy.
 
beaubrummels said:
Gibson 498T / 490T set
Gibson Burstbucker A4
Electric City T-Top
Duncan Designed HB103
Duncan Designed Hot Rails (middle, neck)
Duncan 59/C trembucker
Duncan '78 Model trembucker Custom Shop version
Duncan Black Winter set
Duncan Custom Custom
Duncan Jazz Bridge JMB
Duncan Distortion DD/J
Duncan 59B/J
Duncan Pearly Gates bridge PGB/J
Duncan JB (1970's Seymour-wound)
Duncan JB/A2 80s/90s, no winder initial
Duncan JB modern production
Duncan Parallel Axis 3B/L
Duncan Screamin' Demon trembucker
Duncan P-Rails set
Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker set
Duncan StagMag
Duncan Custom 5
Duncan Custom
Duncan Pearly Gates neck
Duncan Jazz neck (gold)
Duncan Jazz neck 35th Anniversary
Duncan 59 set (2x)
Duncan Full Shred bridge trembucker
Duncan Perpetual Burn
Duncan Seth Lover bridge and neck
Duncan Skinnerburst set
Duncan Brobucker
Duncan T-Deco
Duncan Pearly/A2P neck hybrid (Theodie)
Duncan Antiquity P-90 set, dogear
Duncan Antiquity 60's Tele set
Duncan Firebird (Seymourized version?)
Duncan Classic Stack set
Duncan Vintage Rails (bridge and neck)
Duncan Cool Rails neck

...off the top of my head. I think there's a few others I can't recall.
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Wow, that's a lot... do you keep all of these just stored on the side in case you feel like using them in a particular guitar?
 
beaubrummels said:
Gibson 498T / 490T set
Gibson Burstbucker A4
Electric City T-Top
Duncan Designed HB103
Duncan Designed Hot Rails (middle, neck)
Duncan 59/C trembucker
Duncan '78 Model trembucker Custom Shop version
Duncan Black Winter set
Duncan Custom Custom
Duncan Jazz Bridge JMB
Duncan Distortion DD/J
Duncan 59B/J
Duncan Pearly Gates bridge PGB/J
Duncan JB (1970's Seymour-wound)
Duncan JB/A2 80s/90s, no winder initial
Duncan JB modern production
Duncan Parallel Axis 3B/L
Duncan Screamin' Demon trembucker
Duncan P-Rails set
Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker set
Duncan StagMag
Duncan Custom 5
Duncan Custom
Duncan Pearly Gates neck
Duncan Jazz neck (gold)
Duncan Jazz neck 35th Anniversary
Duncan 59 set (2x)
Duncan Full Shred bridge trembucker
Duncan Perpetual Burn
Duncan Seth Lover bridge and neck
Duncan Skinnerburst set
Duncan Brobucker
Duncan T-Deco
Duncan Pearly/A2P neck hybrid (Theodie)
Duncan Antiquity P-90 set, dogear
Duncan Antiquity 60's Tele set
Duncan Firebird (Seymourized version?)
Duncan Classic Stack set
Duncan Vintage Rails (bridge and neck)
Duncan Cool Rails neck

...off the top of my head. I think there's a few others I can't recall.
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You need more guitars. A LOT more guitars...
 
THis.

I've been so happy w/ the stock pup's that have come in some of my recently purchased guitar's off late. that I do have some stuff collecting dust in my parts drawer...all new/uninstalled except for the DMT Baker Act and MAB pup's which I recently swapped for EMG's in my Raven West neck-through (but might be going back in there)


So "on hand" atm:

Duncan 59 bridge, JB Trembucker, Custom, Custom 5, Hot Rails, Duncan Distortion, Dimarzio Air Norton Single sized hum, Tone Zone, Paul Gilbert neck single coil (forgot what it's called), EMG 81, 89, 65A some other new EMG's. Dean DMT Baker Act & MAB Hands w/o Shadows, DMT Schenker set, Lace Dirty Hesher neck and a bunch of cheap stock pup's...maybe some other stuff too... I forget.
 
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