Ha! Same here. It was just never my thing.
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Ha! Same here. It was just never my thing.
Demanic
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Probably depends upon where you stick your nose and how deeply.
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Demanic
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I still can't understand the obsession with double creme bobbins.
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CaptainWhizz
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Because they have to show they double black is associated with their brand.
Artie
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Evan Skopp once touched on this subject lightly. They did take DMZ to court, and lost. Later, he commented that he realized what they did wrong in presenting their case. A different day, a different judge . . . who knows.
Aceman
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People are out there making double cream pickups. That is all the story that needs made. It can be done. Duncan Customers want it done. Educate me or I'm buying DiMarzio when the aesthetic is important.
Maybe there was an agreement between companies? I have no idea.
CaptainWhizz
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To be honest, when I was younger and clueless, I did assume that any double-cream humbucker I saw was Dimarzio, so there’s definitely some basis for their claim. I’m lucky though, in that if I wanted double-cream by a different manufacturer, I could get Oil City and not have to worry about international shipping.
beaubrummels
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See, from a distance I just thought exposed bobbins were Gibsons with the covers off. A double row of hex heads was the only thing that said ‘DiMarzio’ to me. So their claim of the cream aesthetic being central to their brand in the public eye just wasn’t entirely true.
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
That - right there.
There was time when this made sense. Like, before 1982.
It is just pure foolishness now.
CaptainWhizz
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It becomes self-fulfilling; if only Dimarzio can sell double-cream humbuckers, then double-cream humbuckers must be Dimarzios.
Aceman
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except that LOTS of people do.
CaptainWhizz
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Well then, if they’re US companies, there’s probably grounds to challenge. But they’d have to have enough visibility in the market for it to make a difference.
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
And wasn’t that DiMarzio’s case? They are superior pickups and they are identified by double cream - so a NEW guitar player might think double C = DMZ.
But to the replacement pickup community TODAY - almost every consumer knows Duncan, BareKnuckle, GFS, EMG, FRalin, and others.
So - moot point
But to the replacement pickup community TODAY - almost every consumer knows Duncan, BareKnuckle, GFS, EMG, FRalin, and others.
So - moot point
CaptainWhizz
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Bare Knuckle are British and GFS are made by Artec, right?
Duncan don’t sell double cream, I’ve never seen any by EMG, and don’t know enough about Fralin.
Small-scale sales would be like people selling unofficial merchandise for bands and sports teams- the trademark holder will go after them where practical, but may not stop everything, so smaller US-based manufacturers might get away with it.
Duncan don’t sell double cream, I’ve never seen any by EMG, and don’t know enough about Fralin.
Small-scale sales would be like people selling unofficial merchandise for bands and sports teams- the trademark holder will go after them where practical, but may not stop everything, so smaller US-based manufacturers might get away with it.
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