Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Mr. Air on March 13, 2009, 01:11:47 PM
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Yesterday I was reunited with my first guitar which have been on a very long vacation in my parrents attic. I couldn't exactly remember it's looks apart from being a strat style guitar. So first thing that jumped me when I saw it again was that it only has one pickup and a pickup that I didn't recognize.
So I'm hopeing that some of you out there can tell me what kind of pickup that's sitting in this guitar. My guess is a mini-humbucker...?
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I have seen it before but I can't think of the name.
Looks P90-ish, with the single pole pieces.
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It's an older style single coil. Before the 'strat' shape became the industry standard shape and design for single coils, most companies producing electric guitars had their own unique designs for their pickups.
Obviously as time went on and during the 70's the strat, tele, LP and their many copies became the most common guitars by an enormous margin, when the aftermarket pickup became widely available, it made sense to cater for this market in the main.
This then led to other companies using this design as their basis in order that their bodies would be able to be retrofitted.
In other words, an odd cycle occurred that phased most other designs out in favour of this new 'standardised' profile.
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Could be a DeArmond pickup. Not a 200 (Dynasonic), though.
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I have loosened the pick guard and underneath it revealed some custom job of refitting the guitar to this pickup. The pickup itself didn't give me any clues as it just has one word engraved at the back: "Japan". That didn't tell me much!