Weirdest Looking Pickups
- Thread starter Mincer
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i have a set of the railhamers vintage and they are really nice and work as advertised. they came in a guitar i bought and was pleasantly surprised with how great they sounded.
the old gibson mudbucker has coils oriented the same as those qtuner pups but with adjustable pole pieces between the coils. i have one downstairs, ill try and remember to grab a pic
the old gibson mudbucker has coils oriented the same as those qtuner pups but with adjustable pole pieces between the coils. i have one downstairs, ill try and remember to grab a pic
The pickups I just ordered will look like the black ones on the end here.
Artie
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I think that's a wicked look. Should be sweet in the right guitar.
Drak
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Those V shaped pickups were designed by Bill Lawrence while he was working for Gibson at the time.
Maybe even manufactured by him.
I believe Bill had his own pickup manufacturing thing going before Gibson hired him, and he maintained his own shop facilities while working for Gibson.
Anyway, he designed the Marauder and S-1 pickups as well, which there are many pics of online, compared to the V's, which are a little rare but not super-rare.
The V's have that black epoxy underneath them that other Gibson HB's had at the time.
I had an ES-347 for a few years that had tapped 8k-16k HB's in them with the same black epoxy.
And I think those V-shaped pickups would be nearly the exact same kind of construction as Bill used in the Marauders and S-1's.
Encased in epoxy and all that.
The Marauders were clear epoxy, the V's (and other HB's from Gibson at the time) were black epoxy.
But, AFAIK, No-one else was filling pickups with epoxy, that was a Bill Lawrence invention.
Those Marauder pickups measure around 2.3k and I believe are humbuckers wired in parallel.
So that would be two coils of around 4.5 or 4.6k each.
I believe the V pickups follow similar construction except its 3-strings-per-coil instead of being side-by-side as the Marauders and S-1's were.
Complete flop and fail to put pickups that work for jazz into a super-cool looking Flying V, total design face-plant.
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gsammo79
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I like all three of these options a lot. The first two have a classy look
80's_Thrash_Metal
Slightly_Glazed_Believer
Goodness there is a whole lot of ugly in this thread!
allbutromeo
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I don't mind the ugly if it is functional.
Amen
Pontiac Jack
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I've got one of these in dark brown kicking around in the shed
beaubrummels
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What is the benefit of that layout? What does it do for the sound?
allstarrme
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The fugly bucker?
The fugly bucker?
That certain;y deserves a place here. Certainly the definition of function over form.
beaubrummels
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A-ha! The Armstrong idea is alive and well! Relish Guitars Mary One comes with P-90s installed and a set of humbuckers you swap by removing the back plate.
https://guitar.com/review/electric-guitar/review-relish-mary-one/
https://guitar.com/review/electric-guitar/review-relish-mary-one/
beaubrummels
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Versoul has got some interesting looking pickups.
beaubrummels
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Waterslide guitar - using Mojo UK Dual Foil Gold Foil
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