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Weirdo 1950s pickup

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:59 am
by DGNR8
THIS sounds intriguing. The strings go THRU the pickup. I pulled the image out of their source code, so maybe it won't allow remote links.

Early '50s Fender Non-Pedal Lap Steel Guitar Pickup - Deluxe / Dual Professional
This is a trapezoid-shaped box-car pickup from an early '50s D6 Fender Dual Professional. The same pickups were used on Fender's Deluxe lap steel, and if they made any six-string versions of the triple-necked Custom lap steels, then they also used these pickups. The strings on these models go through the center of the pickups.

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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 12:16 am
by desertan
This is also true of the Supro lap (Coodercaster/Jason Lollar) and (of course) the Rickenbacker 'horseshoe" pickups...