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Just wondering if anybody actually uses lipstick pickups in the guitars you play?

I have them in my strat, and my Danelectros, of course. The strat p-ups are Seymour Duncan. Love 'em!

Rev

Canadian Surf

http://www.urbansurfkings.com/

Um...yah, I do. 3 Danos in the pic below. Grew up on em. I know there are others.
Come on guys- represent!

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Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest

The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube

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Absolutely!
I have 7 guitars with them and love them.

http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/crazyacesrock
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Absolutely. Duncan designed pickups in my Fender surfcaster.

I am not obsolete, I am RETRO.... Cool

I have a pair in my Danelectro '63 reissue — stock ones. Clean they sound nice and jangly, but through a crunchy Marshall they sing like a thousand Valkyries.

Then again, not all lipsticks are created equal. Vintage, reissues (later Dano RIs have hotter pickups than the earlier ones), cheap or expensive aftermarket models...

Syndicateofsurf — nice Convertible Cool

Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers.

Last edited: Jan 08, 2015 18:12:24

Ferenc uses them (or at least used to).
Ran

The Scimitars

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I use Armstrong lipsticks on the maple-neck twin-pickup Strat-like Retrotone Surfmaster machine: chiming goodness.

Last edited: Jan 08, 2015 22:51:17

I have them on this original Dano and a short scale Dano bass I also have.
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The TakeOffs
"Kauai's Only All-Instrumental Surf Band"
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My custom SOLID GOLD Teisco has a GFS in the neck position – sound spretty damn good!
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Dano Longhorn Bass (late 90s) peeking out of the rack at the far left has two of 'em. Classic Dano bass sound, both bright and deep!

Squink Out!

JObeast wrote:

My custom SOLID GOLD Teisco has a GFS in the neck position – sound spretty damn good!
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Dano Longhorn Bass (late 90s) peeking out of the rack at the far left has two of 'em. Classic Dano bass sound, both bright and deep!

I dig that Tulip Teisco!

Da Vinci Flinglestein,
The quest for the Tone, the tone of the Quest

The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube

http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/

http://sharawaji.com/

http://surfrockradio.com/

Last edited: Jan 09, 2015 08:06:46

Nice Teisco!
I use them in a Danelectro with a Gotoh sitar bridge
Mathar & Rai Uno

Michael

Los Venturas
The Spektrums
The Tritones (RIP)

Last edited: Jan 09, 2015 17:07:15

Absolutely. I have 3 Kent Armstrong lipsticks in my Reverend Spy, and a Danelectro 56-U2 reissue. they sound great. Fairly low output, but you just turn up the amp, or boost, a tad.

Bob

I'd been playing my Jazzmaster a lot for the last few months, then decided to give my 1990's Danelectro Hodad a try. I played "From Russia with Love", and thought the lipstick pickups sounded really nice.

Schots wrote:

Nice Teisco!
I use them in a Danelectro with a Gotoh sitar bridge
Mathar & Rai Uno

And this guitar sounds great, I can assure you.

Los Fantasticos

Lipsticks in aJerry Jones baritone, which is one of the best playing and sounding guitars ever.

I've been watning to explore lipsticks further in regular guitars, so just today will get the chance. Traded into an interesting partscaster strat. The body is Chandler made, from early on in the 80s, and it has three Chandler lipstick p/us. (These were the ones supplied stock in charvel Surfcasters, and were used in SRV's second guitar "charlie".) Anyway, I am eager to hear it.
MD

Last edited: Jan 10, 2015 06:55:50

From time to time. To surprising effect.

-don

Still rockin' after all these years!

That sounds terrific, Don.

This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got.

What Noel said. Great playing and sound, Don. I've never really given much thought to them. I saw Squier had a 'surf strat ' with lipsticks. It looked the business....but although the range has come a long way I'm still not sold on the necks.

Beautiful Teisco, JO.

maximumsurfandroll wrote:

...I saw Squier had a 'surf strat ' with lipsticks. It looked the business....but although the range has come a long way I'm still not sold on the necks.

I've come to really like Squiers. Well, the VM series offsets at least. Took me a day or two to adjust to the different feel from my Fenders, but to my own amazement the VM Jag and JM are now my most favored and most played guitars.

Several weeks back a Squier VM Jag with lipsticks PUPS was put up for sale on another forum. It was all I could do not to buy it! Too many guitars! Too many guitars! (Or so I keep telling myself!) Wink

-don

Still rockin' after all these years!

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