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DeArmond Questions
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 7:50 am
by jsm610
Question #1, on the bottom pickup in the photos. This is the DeArmond used on some of the late '50s Rickenbacker guitars.
- What is this pickup called?
- Was it used on other makes of guitars? If so which?
Question #2, on the top pickup in the photos.
- What pickup is this? Anyone have any info on what this might be? I'm tempted to call it a Bagel toaster...
Thanks!
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:16 am
by soundmasterg
These ones (top pickup) bring big dollars on ebay, but thats about all I know about them. Most of the DeArmond pickups sound really good too.
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:16 am
by jwilli
John, not sure of the correct name of the bottom pickup but Ive always heard it called a Chrome Bar or Pre-Toaster.
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:25 am
by jsm610
"These ones (top pickup) bring big dollars on ebay"
Do you have any links or item #'s I could look at? I've searched on everything I could think of and didn't see another one?
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:59 am
by robbo63
I've seen the upper one on some of the Harmony solidbody (pre-1960) Stratotones, but normally they have the Hershey bar. You may want to ask over at the Harmony guitars forum,
http://216.219.212.85/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:11 am
by rickcrazy
No polepieces/bobbin on either of those, I believe, just a single bar magnet surrounded by a tress-like coil.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 12:14 am
by wints
I sold one of the top ones a while back for about $50 on eBay. There were a few at that time all around that price.
They are used in the acoustic guitars from that period.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:02 am
by soundmasterg