What Neck Pickup Is This?

[Drak]

I mean, I thought I knew a lot, but damn if I've ever seen this pickup before.
You can get clean shots during the solo around 2:00 in.
It looks like a single rail, kinda.
But it also looks like it has outer rails on the edges?

I'll let you tell me, I can't figure it out.
He's got two mini-switches in the back, so I'm guessing its a HB, and the switches are coil splits for the neck and bridge HB's.
Just a (logical) guess...
At about 2:25, he's on the neck pickup and hits one of those switches, so it's gotta be a HB of some sort, unless its a tap, which I doubt.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Beats me. There's a logo there on the pickup but I can't make it out.

Some singles use a guard at one end to keep the strings from catching but I don't think that's what's going on here.
Maybe some sort of magnetic focusing, like the claw on a Jaguar pickup? Many of the Lace pickups employ that principle.

I'm curious now too.Hopefully somebody will recognize it and chime in.

 

[Mincer]

Hard to see. But send the guy an email through his social media accounts, and I bet he answers.

 

[beaubrummels]

Looks like a Bill Lawrence L250 with a DiMarzio logo in the wrong place. All the single rail pickups I can find are odd cheap knockoffs. My guess would be it's something custom.

 

[Masta' C]

It's a Fernandes Sustainer

 

[beaubrummels]

A better question is: "What guitar is it?" It's this:

https://shop.fender.com/en-US/elect...stainer-stratocaster/0140192305.html?rl=en_CY

 

[Drak]

A better question is: "What guitar is it?" It's this:

https://shop.fender.com/en-US/elect...stainer-stratocaster/0140192305.html?rl=en_CY

Annnnd...we have a winner!
Thanks so much.

 

[beaubrummels]

Annnnd...we have a winner!
Thanks so much.

Masta'C called it though. He has a great eye and knows all the pickups.

 

[Drak]

I saw that, I gave him a like too. :smokin:

 

[Mincer]

Always wanted to use a Sustainer pickup. I am guessing it can be used as a traditional pickup, too, huh?

 

[PFDarkside]

It's a Fernandes Sustainer

Those are impossible to find unless gig are FMIC. Same for the BadAss bridge until they just started making their own knockoff.

 

[Drak]

Those are impossible to find unless gig are FMIC. Same for the BadAss bridge until they just started making their own knockoff.

This I believe, is what you use if you're doing your own thing and not the Big F.

 

[Masta' C]

U.S. distributor for Fernandes products: https://www.gearstreetshop.com/product-page/fsk-401

 

[PFDarkside]

U.S. distributor for Fernandes products: https://www.gearstreetshop.com/product-page/fsk-401

They’ve been out of stock for at least a year now!

 

[Wound_Up]

Always wanted to use a Sustainer pickup. I am guessing it can be used as a traditional pickup, too, huh?

Yes. It has a natural setting that allows for the natural sustain of the string with no extra to make it sustain forever.

 

[Artie]

Great video, by the way. Nice licks. Thanks for posting that.

 

[Mincer]

Guitarists like Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, and Steve Hackett do some wonderful things with the Sustainer. I use an Ebow to do similar things.

 

[PFDarkside]

Always wanted to use a Sustainer pickup. I am guessing it can be used as a traditional pickup, too, huh?

Kind of. You get the traditional positions, then when you engage the sustainer the bridge is active and the neck pickup starts driving the strings like an ebow.