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Re: Lipstick PU's - what's different?

1/12/2000 7:32 PM
Doc	Re: Lipstick PU's - what's different? What I'd like to know is: 1. Are all the lipstick type pickups sold by aftermarket companies the same as the ones in the RI Dano guitars? 2. Are they all made by Armstrong? If not, which ones? Are his better than asian imports? (They might all be made in the same korean factory, sent all around the world.) 3. Are the special shorter length pickups for easy insertion into a strat sonically the same as the regular length lipstick pickups in the Danos? The DCR is listed as the same, but does one have a shorter bar magnet than the other, a different number of turns, etc? (See the listings in Stewart MacDonald or WD.) 4. Does the enclosed metal tube eliminate hum? The reason I'm wondering all of this is that I plan to build a strat with 3 lipstick pickups. I want to get the best sounding ones if that's a real distinction, and I will go the extra mile and do the routing and custom pickguard work required to install the longer tubes if that will make a difference (for the better) in how the guitar will sound. I'm glad someone started a discussion on lipstick pickups. We know a lot about the various other types so far, but not enough about this truly different option.

1/12/2000 7:32 PM

Doc

Re: Lipstick PU's - what's different?

What I'd like to know is:

1. Are all the lipstick type pickups sold by aftermarket companies the same as the ones in the RI Dano guitars?

2. Are they all made by Armstrong? If not, which ones? Are his better than asian imports? (They might all be made in the same korean factory, sent all around the world.)

3. Are the special shorter length pickups for easy insertion into a strat sonically the same as the regular length lipstick pickups in the Danos? The DCR is listed as the same, but does one have a shorter bar magnet than the other, a different number of turns, etc? (See the listings in Stewart MacDonald or WD.)

4. Does the enclosed metal tube eliminate hum?

The reason I'm wondering all of this is that I plan to build a strat with 3 lipstick pickups. I want to get the best sounding ones if that's a real distinction, and I will go the extra mile and do the routing and custom pickguard work required to install the longer tubes if that will make a difference (for the better) in how the guitar will sound.

I'm glad someone started a discussion on lipstick pickups. We know a lot about the various other types so far, but not enough about this truly different option.

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