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As demand for his custom pickups grew, he started his own company with Cathy Carter Duncan, Seymour Duncan in 1976. [5] In the 90s, as a demand for vintage guitars began to rise, Duncan sought to replicate the tonal quality of '50s to '60s rock and roll through pre-aging specific pickups. The result was the Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups.
Seymour Duncan and Cathy Carter Duncan in the 1970s. Seymour W. Duncan became interested in guitars at a young age. After lending his guitar to a friend who accidentally broke the pickup, Duncan decided to re-wind the pickup using a record player turntable to hold the pickup in place and rotate it while spooling wire around the pickup bobbin.
The two were associated for nearly 20 years. In 1994, Duncan and Lover jointly produced the Seth Lover Model pickup, a re-creation of the "Patent Applied For" humbucker. After numerous full-page ads, NAMM Show appearances, and magazine interviews, Lover became a minor celebrity at age 84. During his final years, Lover was a regular member of ...
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From 2003, his main guitar was a 2-tone sunburst Fender Californian Series Stratocaster with 3 Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pick-ups, however he changed the middle position pick-up to a Seymour Duncan JB Jr. pick-up during the Maiden England tour in 2012-13.
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The fingerboard is Rosewood with 24 frets. The DK2 model has three Seymour Duncan pickups; two are single-coil, the third (the bridge) is a humbucker. Variants include: DK2L: The left-handed version of the DK2; DK2M: A DK2 with a maple fingerboard and unpainted maple headstock. This uses two humbuckers (authentic Seymour Duncan).
Note: In descriptions of pickup configurations, H refers to humbuckers and S refers to single-coils.. The Fender Showmaster initially started as a Custom Shop model. It featured a carved maple top with hand scraped edges and cream binding, a set-neck maple neck (bolt-on on some models), a sleek mahogany body (many Showmaster guitars are made from basswood or alder; later models such as the ...