Interesting Duo-Sonic Pickups

[Fakir Mustache]

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004 ... 1RO%210%21






Sucks you can't buy just one, but a set is cheaper than a single Duncan. It's around $50 if the link won't come up in your local currency.

[MattK]

I bought some exactly the same with the intention of putting them in my MIJ Mustang but I haven't got around to it yet ...

[Fakir Mustache]

Ok, bought them. I'll let you guys know about them in about a month, or whenever I decide to install them after that.

They were only 38 US bucks and something like 63 cents. Free shipping.


I have been looking for the Duncan Antiquities bridge for about a year. Mainly I couldn't find it anywhere. I did find one place, and it was 175 Euros.

Plus the occasional Seymour Duncan defects, one review on youtube had a pickup with a dead polepiece.


I hope the ones I got instead are good. I'll probably try both pickups in the bridge position and pick which one I like best. Keep the other one for a strat build.

[sunshiner]

Nice, we'll wait!

Because of how long the typical delivery from Aliexpress takes I sometimes forget I ordered something and don't feel excited about the thing, but I hope the pickups will live up to the expectation. Pickup makers on Aliexpress seem to have significantly improved their game. Their premium strat and tele pickups look just like big name boutique pickups from the cloth wrapped around the coils to the wires. Reviews under the listing are usually positive, too.

[Fakir Mustache]

Nice, we'll wait!

Because of how long the typical delivery from Aliexpress takes I sometimes forget I ordered something and don't feel excited about the thing, but I hope the pickups will live up to the expectation. Pickup makers on Aliexpress seem to have significantly improved their game. Their premium strat and tele pickups look just like big name boutique pickups from the cloth wrapped around the coils to the wires. Reviews under the listing are usually positive, too.

Actually they seem to be getting faster, the thing on their site said March 4 or something, and I've gotten stuff in two weeks, before it was a month. And it takes several days at least to dispatch it to the local post office from the main international one.

One time I ordered a bridge or something, and the customs from your country must have been playing with the package and their x-ray machines for more than a week. That's what the tracking was saying. May even have been there 2 weeks, I don't remember.

[Fakir Mustache]

The pickups haven't come yet, but I ordered some parts from two different aliexpress dealers a week later, then two days later from two other dealers.

Everything came in one single package, and it didn't come by mail, but a local courier firm delivered it to me today.

alix.png (380.89 KiB) Viewed 1075 times

alip.png (940.31 KiB) Viewed 1075 times

alipb.png (680.57 KiB) Viewed 1075 times

The lipstick pickup unfortunately does not fit the pickguard, I should have checked the measurements before ordering. I have a 90s Danelectro pickup as well, so I guess I could use it for some project sometime in the far future.

The pickguard looks really nice, The pattern is painted on, except for the white stuff, which looks like it's just the pickguard's with no paint over it. I don't know how long it would last under heavy use. The holes are not cut into the shielding, but that's not a big deal.

[Fakir Mustache]

O.k., got them. Came with the courier again, would have preferred to the post office, but whatever.

Fancy packaging.

waaah1.png (810.62 KiB) Viewed 1029 times

waaah2.png (747.7 KiB) Viewed 1029 times

waaah3.png (888.59 KiB) Viewed 1029 times

Measured 6.15K and 6.38K ohms.

[sunshiner]

Nice pickguard and the pups look the part with flat pole pieces and fibery bobbins.