World's Largest Pickup

JOLLY

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I don't know if anyone else saw this on the Seymour Duncan page, but it seems pretty cool. Maybe Evan will enlighten us a little bit more on this?

What would you do with world's largest electric guitar pickup? Why, put it in the world's largest electric guitar, of course. And that's exactly what Seymour has been up to the last couple of weeks. He's been working on an episode of a new show in production for The Discovery Channel called "Big," in which they build big versions of things like a blender, a motorcycle and -- you guessed it -- a working electric guitar. The guitar episode will air on Tuesday, June 15. The show is produced by the same team that does "Monster Garage" and "Monster House." Not only did Seymour build the pickup, but he was involved in setting up the guitar. According to Seymour, "Once we got the pickup installed and cranked it through a 300 watt amp, it made the whole building reverberate and you could literally see the walls moving!"
 
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Tune in on June 15 (mark it on your calendar now).

What you see will blow your mind.

As for the pickup, imagine Seymour, MJ, and Seymour's sons Cody and Derek working non-stop for two-and-half-weeks buliding a 156 lb. humbucker...

That's all I can say about it for now. The production company is making us stay really tight-lipped.

June 15...
 
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Ha, I wonder what it's DC resistance is, maybe 4,000k?
And what kind of magnet would a pickup like that use?
 
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I'm a little more concerned with the strings on that thing... :laugh2:

You'd have to get a running start to pluck those bad boys.
 
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june 22nd? at what time? *goes to check out discovery*

and that is soooo cool!
 
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hey next time someone comes on the forum and asks which duncan is the heaviest ?
now i know which one i am going to tell them! :laugh2: :laugh2:
that pup weighs as much as me! :saeek:
 
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texasguitarslinger said:
Prolly need a pickup truck to move that pickup. :rolleyes:

Cute. But the truth is stranger than fiction.

Q: What vehicle did Seymour use to transport the humbucker?

A: A Hummmer.

I kid you not... :cool3:
 
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Evan Skopp said:
Cute. But the truth is stranger than fiction.

Q: What vehicle did Seymour use to transport the humbucker?

A: A Hummmer.

I kid you not... :cool3:


:laugh2:
 
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i did see that, pretty cool. so is it a giant jb or ???? :)
 
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I bet we can figure out how big this guitar is. If a normal pickup weighs about 7oz, and this pickup weighs 156lb (that's 2496oz). that means that the pickup weighs 356X as much as a regular sized one. Let's assume a weight scale factor of four (since it's big, things need to be much stronger), so that takes us down to 90X as big. If a guitar was scaled the same, that means that it would have a scale length of 187ft! That's about 2/3 of a soccer pitch isn't it? Dang that's a big guitar!
 
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