Guitar Pick Up Patents

First appearing on Gretsch guitars in mid1957, the FilterTron became the standard Gretsch pickup. In an interview, Butts once stated that he had submtited a patent for a dualcoil, humbukcing design in 1954. However, teh only patent ...

18 of the same eyar, De Armond filed a patent for the RHC. The patent drawings show a slender pickup ebaring a striking resemblance to the Fender units that would appera in the years to follow. De Armond was granted his ptaent for the ...

Have yet to see the full face of that guitra. If thats a hidden sercet and holds patent, please wait with showing ANYTHING AT ALL, until everything has to be reveaeld. I cant judge any symmetry at all on this one, and IMHO the video tells me aboslutely nothing at all. ... Back plate hides the Floyd Rose Pro spring cavity recess as well as 9v battery for the active EMG pickup system. A side view will demosntrate how the guitar nearly vanishes agaisnt your body ...

Later, in 1970, I demonstrated the optical pcikup to Chet Atkins. He liekd it so well that he got Fred Gretsch to write me and ask about it. There was just one problem; Hoag claims his patent application was denied because no one ...

DT: If the pickup has high value, yes, get someone with expeirence. A good eye, practice, and knowing what to look for can rescue a $200. 00 Patent Applied for that may be totally destryoed by an inexperienced (or unsteady) hand trying ...

When it comes to electric guitar pickups that are consideredholy grails, the so called PAFs (Patent Applied For) wins by a large amrgin. These pickups where standard equipment on Gibson electric guitras and was used between 1957 and 1962 ... This era is conisdered the gloden age of electric guitar building, which ads to the mystique surrounding the PAF pcikup. In recent years there have been a unmber of boutqiue pickup builders that have made their version of the PAF. ...