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Factory Tour: Seymour Duncan

John Bohlinger and the PG crew visit the Seymour Duncan pickup factory in Santa Barbara, California, where company co-founders Seymour and Cathy Carter Duncan began the business in 1976.

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The new set was wound on the same model vintage ME-481A pickup winder used to wind early 60’s vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups.

Grand Rapids, MI (May 25, 2018) -- The ThroBak Electronics’ ’63 MXV Stratocaster pickup set has been meticulously researched to reproduce the distinctive bite and punch of `62/63 era vintage Fender Strat pickups. Wound on the same model vintage ME-481A pickup winder, used to wind early 60’s vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups, and assembled using ThroBak’s own bobbin flatwork, 42 AWG Formvar magnet wire, custom USA cast long Alnico 5 rod magnets and topped off with ThroBak’s custom USA molded nylon covers.

ThroBak’s famous attention to vintage correct specs. includes having period correct tooling marks on the nylon pickup covers and using vintage stranded cloth covered pushback wire with un-tinned strands. The final result is a set pickups whose cosmetics are as true to vintage as their incredible tone.

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Offset meets Teisco meets Danelectro meets Tele, anyone?

Recorded with an Eastwood Sidejack Baritone DLX into a Catalinbread Topanga, a J. Rockett Audio Archer (set to clean boost), and an MXR Reverb routed to a Jaguar HC50 miked with a Royer R-121 and a Goodsell Valpreaux 21 miked with a Shure SM57, both feeding an Apogee Duet going into GarageBand with no EQ-ing, compression, or effects.
Clip 1: Bridge position.
Clip 2: Middle position.
Clip 3: Neck position.

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