Just wondering if anybody actually uses lipstick pickups in the guitars you play?
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does anybody actually use lipstick pickups?
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Joined: Mar 23, 2011 Posts: 518 colorado springs 
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 12:17 PM
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3854 North Atlantic 
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 12:22 PM
I have them in my strat, and my Danelectros, of course. The strat p-ups are Seymour Duncan. Love 'em! Rev —Canadian Surf |
Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 12:24 PM
Um...yah, I do. 3 Danos in the pic below. Grew up on em. I know there are others.
Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube |
Joined: Jul 31, 2012 Posts: 4053 Nashville, TN.
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 01:11 PM
Absolutely! http://www.facebook.com/CrazyAcesMusic |
Joined: Feb 21, 2011 Posts: 513 Ontario
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 06:01 PM
Absolutely. Duncan designed pickups in my Fender surfcaster. —I am not obsolete, I am RETRO.... |
Joined: Oct 05, 2011 Posts: 744 France
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 06:10 PM
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 Old punks never die... They just become surf rockers. Last edited: Jan 08, 2015 18:12:24 |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 1338 Escondido, CA
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 10:21 PM
Ferenc uses them (or at least used to). |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 10:43 PM
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 |
Joined: Aug 19, 2006 Posts: 958 Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 11:14 PM
I have them on this original Dano and a short scale Dano bass I also have. The TakeOffs |
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Posted on Jan 08 2015 11:27 PM
My custom SOLID GOLD Teisco has a GFS in the neck position – sound spretty damn good! |
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Joined: Oct 08, 2014 Posts: 1073 Northern Ohio
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Posted on Jan 09 2015 06:30 AM
JObeast wrote:
I dig that Tulip Teisco! —Da Vinci Flinglestein, The Syndicate of Surf on YouTube http://www.syndicateofsurf.com/ Last edited: Jan 09, 2015 08:06:46 |
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Posted on Jan 09 2015 05:05 PM
Nice Teisco! Michael Los Venturas Last edited: Jan 09, 2015 17:07:15 |
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Posted on Jan 09 2015 11:50 PM
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 |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 12:36 AM
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. |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 01:55 AM
Schots wrote:
And this guitar sounds great, I can assure you. — |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 06:55 AM
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. Last edited: Jan 10, 2015 06:55:50 |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 07:19 AM
From time to time. To surprising effect. -don —Still rockin' after all these years! |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 07:29 AM
That sounds terrific, Don. —This is Noel. Reverb's at maximum an' I'm givin' 'er all she's got. |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 11:59 AM
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. |
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Posted on Jan 10 2015 12:14 PM
maximumsurfandroll wrote:
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!) -don —Still rockin' after all these years! |
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