Lipstick pickup

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Lipstick-tube pickups on a Danelectro electric guitar

A lipstick guitar pickup is a form of

magnetic guitar pickup, having its electronics totally encased in a chrome-plated
metal tube.

The lipstick-tube pickup was first introduced by

Silvertone
.

These pickups continue to be featured on Danelectro and other guitars. Current production pickups are not made using lipstick tubes, but tubes manufactured specifically for guitar pickups.

Construction

Unlike a traditional guitar pickup that uses a plastic or fiber bobbin as a form for winding its coil, the lipstick-tube pickup has its coil wrapped around an alnico VI bar magnet, and then wrapped in tape, usually a cellophane-type tape on vintage units, before being inserted into the metal tube casing. Most vintage Danelectro guitars had their pickups mounted using spring-loaded brackets underneath the tube casing, which could be adjusted for height by means of screws located on the back of the guitar body. Other Danelectro guitars, like the Coral hollowbody series, suspended the pickups from the guitar's top with two screws threaded through the guitar's top and into the brackets. Modern lipstick-tube pickups are usually mounted in a pickguard.

Vintage

Fender themselves introduced a Stratocaster with Seymour Duncan designed lipstick-tube pickups for their Squier line, called the Surf Stratocaster and a Fender factory special run (FSR) American Standard Stratocaster with Seymour Duncan SLS-1 lipstick pickups, as well as offering the same SLS-1 pickups as a Custom Shop
option.

Sound

The sound of lipstick-tube pickups is frequently described as "jangly" and is most closely associated with

surf, rockabilly, and jangle pop
.

Notes

  1. ^ The Fender Telecaster's neck-position pickup, despite its appearance, is not a lipstick-tube pickup. It is a traditional single-coil pickup under a chrome-plated cover.

References

  1. ISBN 9780879309312
    .
  2. ISBN 0-634-02759-X
    .
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