Imagine going back in time to the 1950s and being able to get a set of pickups wound to suit your style and gear, then zoom back to 2009 -- Don Mare's Pickups has done it!

"We went to #1, right up to the head of the class in today's vintage tone reproduction marketplace." Don Mare

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This may be “JOSIE”. She was one of the greats! Responsible for some of Leo’s Best Pickups!
RELICING is optional. $10.00 ea. or $20.00 set
**NEW**Be sure you do order ahead of time. 
 I often run between 5 to 6 week lead times.
But with holidays and or outside circumstances
 it can reach 8 to 9 weeks, hand building & hand winding and shipping!
There NO are CANCEL OUTS- or- REFUNDS once your order has been placed.
(Sorry, no exceptions)

currently I am at 6 week lead time


ALL HANDMADE -- ALWAYS "HAND-WOUND"
The fine wire is always "Finger Guided" onto each coil.
No automatic machine or cam is ever used.
Our machine is a duplicate of Leo's 1950s winder.

Using the very best sounding vintage winding pattern that was ever
discovered by "Josie's 50s wind pattern".
Everything is made and done just like it was in 1950 all over again.
We have back-engineered only the very best of those old 1950s,
hand-wound patterns, and settled on one special pattern.
We call it the "Josie Wrap." We use it on all our pickups.

These DON MARE pickups all have, great organics
- player's touch
- they're attack sensitive and have very rich harmonics
- perfect volume and note bloom
- they breathe
- they feel alive.
 They are replicas of the world's best ever vintage pickup tone.
 (not just another vintage - but the best ever vintage, those ones that sounded better than other vintage - that's the one!).

They inspire...the strings sound better...your amp's tubes sound better...they'll never hit dead ends or road blocks...they do not limit your playing in any way shape or form.
Instead they inspire you to develop further than you could dream was possible with today's pickups.

This is NOT HYPE - we actually don't like pickup hype!
it's all Gospel truth! That, we can promise you!
And we will stand by this.
You will notice: DON MARE's customers will verify 
that these claims are 100% true!
(visit www.harmony-central.com - it's a good place to have a peek!).

We use our reverse-engineered 1951 vintage
 "Josie" winding pattern "full-time." It's on everything we do here!
We located the finest Alnico magnets made.
They really do sound much better than any magnets we have ever heard!
We also use the very best quality vintage-spec copper,magnet coil wire that's being made today. (beautiful toned wire)!
Our winder is a duplicate of Leo's very first original winder.
So your entire pickup coil is wrapped nice and tight around your magnets
and that way the overall output is more powerful and
the brighter high-end has lots head-room to spare
(no metalic harshness - no bright ear snap- no meshing of high notes)!

Here you can find 100% real vintage tone dialed in to match your rig and style.

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Recreating what is said to be:
"The World's Best Vintage tone"



NOTE -- Please allow -5 to 6 -weeks for build time / lead times..


 
    • DBA: Don Mare Pickups Long Beach, CA.
    • We sell guitar pickups that use the Fender® Stratocaster® guitar and Fender® Telecaster® guitar and Gibson® guitar. They are high quality pickups for Fender® guitars and Gibson® guitars (and many other brands).

      We are not representing them as products of the following companies: are all the property of Fender® musical instruments as if you did not know.

      We are not associated with Fender
      ® or Gibson® and have never been. No relation.

      We are not associated with: Fender
      ®, Gibson®,  or any of these companies and their trade names and trade marks are the property of the respective companies.

      Strat®, Esquire®, Telecaster®, Tele®, Jazzmaster®, Jaguar®, Mustang®, P Bass®, J Bass®, Fender®, Guild®, DeArmond® and Squier® are registered trademarks of
      Fender
      ® Musical Instruments Corp.

       

      Gibson®, Les Paul®, SG®, Flying V®, ES-175®, ES-335®, L-5®, Byrdland®, Epiphone® and P-90® are registered trademarks of Gibson Guitar Corp.