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

I probably have a little over half a dozen not currently in use. A JB 59n set, an X2N, an old TB-14 with a dead coil that I keep meaning to have repaired, an EMG HZ3, A Duncan Designed 7 bridge.
Probably a couple of others that I can't recall atm.
 
Seashore said:
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?
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They accumulated after tone chasing. I didn't unload them because even though I ruled them out at the time, I thought I might try them again in different guitars or in different combinations later. But at this point most are just sitting and I should have a clearance sale.
 
Kiesel Carvin
White set of AP 11 singles, Black with Gold polls Beryllium neck, C22B, C22 J, Neck and middle Marks Singles.M22 SD, B, N and V
Duncan Trembucker Perpetual Burn in Zebra
Fender set from a Modern Player Tele, set from a Mex Strat.
 
beaubrummels said:
They accumulated after tone chasing. I didn't unload them because even though I ruled them out at the time, I thought I might try them again in different guitars or in different combinations later. But at this point most are just sitting and I should have a clearance sale.
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You know, surprisingly, I never "accumulated "Tone Chase" pickups, although lord knows I have had enough of them, especially early on. Seems I always had someone who would take them to fund the next set.
 
beaubrummels said:
They accumulated after tone chasing. I didn't unload them because even though I ruled them out at the time, I thought I might try them again in different guitars or in different combinations later. But at this point most are just sitting and I should have a clearance sale.
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You need such a guitar. Guess who bought it used from a pickup winder (Dead End Pickups).

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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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Good to know. next time I need something, I will put you on my call list with Darth.
 
I just looked thru my pickup drawer a week or two ago.

the only "good stuff" are a lace hot gold sensor, and a pair of jbjrs. The rest is just stock crap. We'll, maybe the dimarzio/ibz aren't too bad...
 
A custom custom, a 59/custom hybrid, a vintage blues set, a double cream dimarzio PAF, a double cream dimarzio super distortion, a perpetual burn, a burstbucker pro set
 
80's DiMarzio Super Distortion
Gibson Dirty Fingers - I pulled these from my 1984 Gibson Explorer CMT. Lately, I've been thinking about reinstalling them.
SD JBjr
SD 59n
SD Screamin' Demon - I'm going to install it into my Strat as soon as the custom pickguard is delivered. Installed.
SD Custom Staggered set.
SD Cool Rails
Fender Eric Johnson
 
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I'm too lazy to check my box. I'll try to do this from memory.

A white Custom Custom. A Lil Screamin' Demon. A pair of Custom Shop Lil PG's. A Twangbanger, a Five-Two, a Cool Rails or two, a Vintage Rails. A loaded SSL-1 pickguard. Two sets of Dave Mustaine Livewires, a set of Livewire Classic II's. An old school Livewire heavy metal. An old Livewire single. (Not sure what exactly it is.) A white Perpetual Burn. A C5 and a 59.

That's all I remember. I hate gettin' old. I don't mind getting lazy.

Edit: I mis-spoke. My loaded pickguard is Duncan Designed SC-101's. Not SSL-1's. (Still good.)
 
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A few stock pickups from Epiphone and Fender.

Duncans: Distortion (trem-spaced, white) and a set original P-Rails (cream) are loose. I have a pickguard loaded with a Crazy 8 and Cool Rails that I'll eventually swap back into the rotation next string change.
 
Mincer said:
Or some kind of quick-swap pickup swapping system that doesn't require a special guitar.
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But quite often people try to match the pickup to the tonal characteristics of a particular guitar, that swapping system needs to come as a kit. I found I can access the pickups on a Floyd Rose guitar in under, say, 2 minutes by removing the springs, diving the trem, then pulling it off the studs and setting it aside, that gives full access to work on the wiring. The advantage here is, one you're done you don't have to retune, plus you get access to clean the fretboard too. I can see how something like this can be engineered into a pickup swapping system.
Ummm now I better file for a patent before Gibson or Dimarzio see this post
 
Well, to be fair, the pickup swap systems I've seen (and there have been a few) have been bulky and expensive.
 
Falbo addressed this by essentially having two guitars built out of the same chunks of wood...excessive? Yes. Scientifically it kicked @$$.
 
MikeS said:
I have a pickguard loaded with a Crazy 8 and Cool Rails that I'll eventually swap back into the rotation next string change.
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That sounds like it could be a sweet combo.

Mincer said:
Or some kind of quick-swap pickup swapping system that doesn't require a special guitar.
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Swiss made Relish Guitars did this. But they were pricey and have since gone out of business.


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An embarrassing number, actually.

1. JB that I swapped out for a Screamin' Demon in my Strat. When I did that, I realized the JB wasn't wired correctly, so I may try it again, but the Demon is a great pickup.
2. Original Blackout set. Actives just don't really work for me.
3. Crazy 8. It suffers from the same thing I hear in every Alnico 8 pickup I've tried, which is a weird mid thing that sounds great at first, but then I get sick of it and wonder what's wrong.
4. Phat Cat set. I decided the 59 set is a better fit for my PRS SE.
5. WLH Bridge. The neck model is in my LP wired in parallel and paired with a stock Custom.
6. PATB-1 bridge. I think this is the only that bothers me that it's not in a guitar at the moment. The parallel axis pickups are drastically underrated.
 
For working for SD, I think I have 2 SD pickups not in guitars. They should send me more stuff.
 
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