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Jason Lollar is an American luthier, musician, and co-founder of Lollar Pickups.A 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, Jason [1] is the author of Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder, now in its third edition, and a contributor to Bart Hopkin's Getting a Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument.
Lollar Pickups is a Tacoma, Washington-based company that creates handmade pickups for electric, bass, and steel guitars. The company was founded in 1995 by luthier Jason Lollar, a 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, and author of Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder. [1]
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A winder being used in the construction of a transformer, at a technical college workshop A winding machine or winder is a machine for wrapping string, twine, cord, thread, yarn, rope, wire, ribbon, tape, etc. onto a spool, bobbin , reel, etc. [ 1 ]
Harold "Harry" DeArmond (January 28, 1906 – October 12, 1999) was an industrial designer of electrical components. His younger brother John was a budding guitarist at age 10 but wanted to make his guitar louder and better-sounding, and in 1935 created a magnetic pickup using components from the ignition coil of a Ford Model A.
The effect was to cancel the hum before it reached the amp and the result was the birth of the humbucking pickup. [3] Lover applied for the patent on the humbucking pickup in 1955 and it was finally granted in 1959 (U.S. patent 2,896,491). During this five-year period, Gibson adhered a "Patent Applied For" sticker to the underside of their ...
The pickup was sold as the Sport Wagon and the SUV as the Station Wagon. Powell's designs were later echoed in the Ford Ranchero and Chevrolet El Camino models which appeared a few years later. Motor Life magazine, in its October 1955 issue (with a photo of the Powell Sport Wagon on the cover), called it "an obvious choice as one of the most ...
In 1980 Larry Fishman made a prototype acoustic pickup in his basement, and by 1981 he had taken orders for pickups from the Guild Guitar Company.In 1982 the C.F. Martin Guitar Company ordered Fishman pickups; to accommodate it, Fishman and his company rented a larger manufacturing space, and began designing and making pickups for banjos, mandolins, violins, cellos and basses as well.