Tiesco Woolworth Top 20 Pickup Project

Lucy Diamond

Lucy Diamond

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Hi folks,

A few years ago I started a journey gathering parts for a Robert Smith Replica Jazzmaster project that I abandoned due to job changes and financial matters.

In a nutshell, there is an entire subculture of guitar players who take the bridge pickups from 1960's era Tiesco Woolworth Top 20 guitars and put them in their Jazzmasters the way Robert Smith did in the early days of the cure.

Years have passed and no one has made a replica of these pickups.

How would we present this to Seymour Duncan as a project or a possible run?

We would need to submit a Top 20 pickup for analysis.

I think there could be a market for these.

We could call it the "Forest" project pickup or the "Four Imaginary" project pickup.
 

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a cost benefit analysis of this project would probably kill it before it got started. those pups can be had pretty cheap on the used market last i knew, not that i follow them closely, and i doubt the demand would be that high but who knows
 
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idsnowdog said:
You can find those pickups new on Aliexpress for around $15. Artec still makes them and they are used on Eastwoods. GFS also has Gold Foil and Toaster pickups for $30. That's not to say there isn't a market for high quality reproductions but The Creamery and others already produce them and it's a fairly small market. http://www.artecsound.com/catalog/index.html
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I went through all three of their catalogs page by page and I didn't see them.

Do you have links to the $15.00 versions?

Thanks for participating.
 
Eww. I have one or two of those in a box. I wonder if they're worth much? On the other hand, they belong in the original Tiesco guitar that I have that they came out of.
 
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