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Blaggards used to be able to get away with that stuff easily, security wasn’t nearly as tight as it is nowadays.
springhead said:
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
A: Business politics. Seymour Duncan Incorporated is now controlled by Seymour’s ex-wife, her current partner and a tight circle of cronies.
Mr. Duncan pootles in his workshop, producing hand-guided machine wound pickups in small quantities. He is ably assisted by the legendary Maricela Juarez and his son, Derek.
When Seymour becomes too unwell to work, great fuss will be made about how Derek is the inheritor of his father’s tradition/legacy/whatever.
I can not point to the last pickup design that was exclusively the work of Seymour. The P-Rails was devised by Frank Falbo. The slew of pickups with Heavy Metal names are the work of others, including young Derek, apparently.
mite buy some and fit them in a £50 Argos guitar!
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
The list price for the regular Hendrix set is 279USD. Currency conversion, import duties, corporate greed and VAT will turn that into roughly 300GBP.
That means that the additional 500GBP buys the box, a shaky signature and a piece of cardboard.
* Yes, from somebody who posted a YouTube video about unicorn droppings!
Thank you though Ash for your 'insights' as an industry insider. I believe for guitars, pickups etc we are in a golden age not just because of the choice/quality but the consumer for the first time is able to have access to a wealth of knowledge they would never had before.
I'd like to chase Seymour down with a camera crew and demand he justifies this cost ON FILM. I went off him after he swapped his amazing wiring diagram website for the sh*te one he has now.
I don't buy pickups, because if I want one myself I make it ... but I know the limitations of my craft, and claiming that any pickup will make you sound like a particular hero of yours ... without their complete signal chain and most of all without their own life and musical experience is hogwash.
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Don't you think Andertons are getting a free pass here? I wonder how much Lee is making on them. Even the taxman is in on it, he'll pull £160 thank you very much.
Poor old Mr. Duncan will be lucky to make minimum wage on these.
I notice Matt’s Guitars in Paris is selling a set of Spot replica pickups. For the bargain price of 590euro
Spot is the 59 burst which used to belong to Bonamassa, but how this can be justified is beyond me - they’ve not dismantled the originals to count every twist of the wire. At the end of the day I’m sure it’s a decent guitar and all. But is it that special?
Seems pickups are about to get much more expensive as this pricing ripples down
The original “Jimi used my pickups” story dates back to Seymour’s time at the Soho Soundhouse. Young Seymour probably repaired something belonging to Hendrix. He might have had the nous to take a few meter readings while he had the opportunity. The significance of all this *may* have been exaggerated ever so slightly.
Again, not the doing of the man himself. Blame the current management.
Five or six years ago, an outside contractor was hired to revamp the SD website wiring diagram section. Unfortunately, the few improvements that the process brought were vastly outweighed by the errors and omissions scattered randomly amongst the diagrams.
In short, nobody did the equivalent of proof reading. The user group forum is full of grumbles about this. Few of the errors have ever been corrected.