I DON MARE - 4-25-23

will always stay Open, Closing

is not an OPTION for me,

however: my old (always on )

SALES practices had to shut off

inorder to change with the times

Gone is the pickup Menu and the old

Buy it Now PayPal Links.

Come NOVEMBER 2023

NEW* will be nothing but pre-made

all-Finished and ready to ship out!

assortments refreshed

every 2- weeks

these sale sites are to be my done from

my web page come November

note: when odd ball pickups or used pickups

pop up around here that need a good home, -

I will pop them up for sale at REVERB,

because technically they are not

NEW and so they cannot be used

on back orders.

Those with prior orders still in the que here,

you are my #1 focus -

all my time has been set aside just for you guys!

I no longer take sales, or tech calls or emails, I have not taken anyones order since Nov, 18th 2022 thatw as teh final order day. my attention then turned to getting all these

done its taking twice the time I hoped for,

but the good news is its happening and I have gotten them out the door - and will continue to do so - untill that last order is shipped

your all in Good hands - I always follow thru -

and backorders are all I do - AND SO WHEN they are all gone

I will only then start to make the premade- ready to sale batches for the NEW website comming soon in NOV 2023 -

untill then I will be working on your order -

BATCH #192 is up now that makes 17 batch runs

more to get done here ( if I manage 1 a week rates) so that is about 4-1/2 months before I will have suceeded to ship all the backlog 100% by doing these weeky staged batched runs- Hope you understand?

FWIW over the last few crazy unstable times in the last 2-years

false mention of me

retiring have surfaced ,

I really cannot ever fully retire ok-

but I have slowed at least 30% from natural causes

I'm healthy have no issues other then I worked hard all my

working life and my Joints and bones are now all mad at me.. LOL

**I make new*Vintage Clones**

of 1950 to 1964 pre CBS

only style HAND WIND's

'PRE CBS

Was the only true

Vintage Single Coil Pickups Only'

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1950s style

all hand labor-

ALWAYS HAND WOUND

and its done using the best ever,

ROSIE WRAP Vintage 1951 Wind Pattern!

(I like to call it "The *Rosie Wrap"

Wind Pattern or scattering)

email's sent back here to me

from All over the WORLD have said things

like this;

"HEY DON IT WAS WELL WORTH THE WAIT!""

"I CANT PUT THE GUITAR DOWN"

"and everyone is asking me about the

pickups!"

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16 years of these emails pouring in

here!

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Years & years. almost all of

my customers have been telling me

that these pickups I made for them are,

their favorite pickup's

For revies online

( Try GOOGLE or Youtube "Don Mare")

"Don Mare Pickups"

"Mare pickups"

I do have some pretty good reviews

& over

16-years worth can be read or heard.

Always true to Recreating my special

Vintage hand Wind Pattern
These were the special guitars, that

always sounded better then others

of the same vintage!
"known as the keepers"
its a well known fact that some of

those old guitars, sounded much

better then others just like them!,
it was those special guitars pickups

that i've worked so hard to clone

their sound.
The fine coil wire is always

"Finger-Guided" onto each coil.
the coils wind pattern I selected,

is always used and my coils are

wrapped the same on each and

every pickup I have ever wound here,
16 years of providing Vintage Tone

Phone Number# 562 331 9042

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Some artists who enjoy Don Mare Pickups...

( last edit was 2019 -

as I quit adding names here-

because I do not advertize anyways

and these guys are mainly here because

were really friends )

I have never ran a single AD ever.

its my policy to be "Customer Fueled"

not Industry _Commercial_Corprate_ etc..

thats no for me - You the player is

who I care to please -

the money I save helps keep COST down

to all you guys! = and Word of Mouth only

(Grass Roots) keeps everyone HONEST -

No Gifting or endorsments - etc..

just real time players and

Real time comments (reviews)

DEKE DICKERSON: Customized

6k S-style set,
Tapped for Single bridge Pickup

T-.Style

JIM WEIDER: Joel Foy Set

WALTER BECKER of Steely Dan:

60's S-style, 50's S-style,
60's S-style Formvars, 0038 for

T-style @10K,

( RIP Walter - We Miss Walter Dearly! )

BOB SEGER BAND Rob McNeely :

0038s@10k and the Hot

Bakelites and Super Sport S-style

JOHN FOGERTY: Don Mare

3-Speed StangRay

(I have since discontinued coil tapping)

on 2 of his stage guitars.

3-Speed StangRay specs are:

Alnico 5 @ 5.5k / 6.5k / 7.7k
(Thanks, John! -DM)

LOU REED:

( RIP We Miss Lou Dearly here!)

He used The Super Sports for T-Style

. ( Called them "The Supers" )

also in Lou's band was

ARAM BAJAKIAN,

on T-style guitar Hot Bakelite set

MARK RIBOT TRIO:
T-Style Guitar, Super Sports

BILL KIRCHEN: Green Onion Set,

Hot Bakelite set,

Hayrides and his old "Coal Burner"

has the SUPERSPORT set

HAL LINDES

(formerly of DIRE STRAITS):

Custom S-type sets

ASK: About the SECRET DIRE_

TONE set For S-style

Also, Top Blues artists...

RICK HOLMSTROM:

Hot Bakelites and the

S.T. Bakersfields in the

AlNiCo-3 Magnet version 1954 Neck

HENRY CARVAJAL, w/ ROD PIAZZA:

The Night Flyers S-style & Supersports

Formvar 50s -

NICK MOSS Hot Bakelites +

Zepotones studio

(To hear the pickups check out

Nicks latest LP om Alligator Records, 2018)

BROPHEY DALE: Joel Foy Bridge

JUNIOR WATSON:

SUPER SPORTS (Stock set)

newly added ,

REDD VOLKERT

STUGIL SIMPSON

OLI BROWN

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Just added 2019,

Jimmy Herring

NITE BOB

RICK KELLY GUITARS NYC

Billy Gibbons with Fogerty

(Youtube - Billy has the Red tele)

I STARTED in 2006 at age 49-years

- and its 2022

now im @ age 64-years & simi-retired

1/2 time Work Weeks -

I found that people in

Older Bodies - just happen to

need more rest!

= 17 years in Service 2006/2022

+ 1-years Great Google REVIEWS

also from age 42 to 47 years-

*5-years 1999 to 2005

Making Fender®Lace Sensors, and

desigining different Sensor Models

Prior years I was Aero Space Machinist/

BMW Mechanic for VASEK POLAK BWM

on PCH in CALIFORNIA's MANHATTAN BEACH

prior to that / Factory Assembler / Electrical

Kiln Oven manafacturing and repair

(ALPINE KILNS)

out of High Schiool I quickly

Joined US ARMY in Aug. 1976* @ age 18*

As A kid I had a Sail BOAT bottom cleaning

service in KING HARBOR REDONDO BEACH CA

my younger SISTER and her friends

had a Topside & inside Cabin

Cleaning service we were a TEAM -

we made good

money on weekends about $45.00 each

there was always 4 of us!

( we all came from a single parent home)

almost Broke type POOR on Welfare

/Medicade

- but inside we were all

Rich and full of LIFE!- we rode Bikes

9-miles to get to King Harbor and work our weekends

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1950-to-'64 is my thing,

I have back-engineered some of the

best of those old hand-wound pickups

and settled on one special

style of winding my coils

and that WAS NOT SCATTERIING

WIRE.BTW thats a

CROCK! (SCATTER WOUND- haha!)

LEO Fender® would have shit bricks if he had

ever seen any one worker/WINDER

on his time clock

SHAKING there wire guiding HAND wildly!!! -

they did not ever take RISK like that there!

- Leo was super FRUGAL!

the Workers (thanks to FOREST WHITE)

all got a small $

extra check for good *QUANITY and

*QUALITY

every FRIDAY onpayday- SO lokk folks-->

they did not

Break Copper wire by doing someting

as foolish as shaking

the coiil wire ( They did not have

BACKING PLATES on their winder)

It was just a empty pickup spinning fast!_

the flatworks'

sides were already

trying to snatch at the wire and snap it

as they would warble!

- SO lookie here--- they were already

struggling for

dear LIFE to keep the wire inside these

pickup bobbins

and not aloow wire to go jumping off /

over the edge and

snapping Leos Expensive FINE Coated

Copper COIL WIRE!

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the MYTH OF the last 42 years!

is that HAND induced movments or

SCATTERING equals

1950s to 1964's TONE

WHAT a disaster of a TALL TALE

ONE that will never go away! and it

is mistaken

for the SECRET to PRE CBS SOUND -

this has stiffled

the industry for 42 years!

when intentional Scattring

its actually something' that will deplete a

louder Thicker sound

and really not Inhance it at all -

- thats why late 60s and 70s Fenders are

LOUDER then

older Hand winds or those of today that

are handwound all lack a little volume and

Chunk

- the Machimne winds are more efficient

then the Hand guided

but SADLY they rarely sounded as good -

I use a 1951 PATTERN I found on a

1951 and 1962~

I use it on all my pickups... I try not to

scatter

anymore then Natural Bounce is causing! same as they

did BACK WHEN!

All my DON MARE pickups:
- Have great organics & Breath / Air
- A really amazing player's touch -

helps you to play!
- They are Pick-attack sensitive

and have very rich harmonics
- have perfect volume and note bloom

- NEVER Ice-Picky's or Treble heavy -

always Ear Candy and sweet on the top-end.

They really seem like they breathe

and feel alive.

They are replicas of what I feel

was the best vintage pickup tone to be found.

They can really inspire, making the

strings sound better and thicker.

Your amp's tubes suddenly

sound better. They'll never hit dead ends

or road blocks. And they do not limit

your playing in any way shape or form.
Instead they can really inspire you to

develop further than you could dream

was possible.

My true vintage purist customers will

verify this stuff on GOOGLE Search of

"Don Mare Pickups"

17 years of reviews can be found.

- No metallic harshness
- No ice pick at all
- No bright ear snap
- No meshing or loss of single notes

Thanks for looking at my site! Don Mare

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Note from Don:

The best way to compare my pickups is at a

Vintage Guitar Show or a store that sells loads of vintage.

That's how we did our testing here for many years,

until we were 100% confident that I had unlocked

Fender's® best ever Vintage pickups.

Put any pickup I make up against an equal

vintage counterpart and let it speak for itself.

Take the other maker's with you and do the

same comparisons. Otherwise its all "he said she said"

- I like oranges, you like apples...etc.

But that was never my quest. I was out to nail vintage tone

or nothing. I never wanted to sell a thing. My quest was a

personal one for me and a few artists I was tech-in for.

vintage purist those guys are the toughest pickup

customers on earth!
Ive made almost every single one happy to date!

If you ever think you have a partsocaster with real

vintage tone, do yourself a favor and do what we did-

get out there and do a few A & B test comparisons with

real vintage guitars. Preferably with lots of them.

Now, if you can walk away happy, prior to my winding

these pickups we did these test and felt;
-- "Hey, it seems were always only 85% max in

reaching vintage tone on the 100% mark ,

because it's that 10% or 15% that will drive us all nuts.

we did the same test to my pickups untill we flat out nailed it!

When you have owners of vintage guitars telling you

they hear everything in yours that's in that vintage

(Some even saing they like yours a little more)

then its mission accomplished! At least it was

for the artist and myself here. And that's the day I

opened to the public- not one day earlier.

I was dead set on getting this tone or die trying.

-Don Mare

PS.. youtube "10k keefer"

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
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We are not representing them as products
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1950 thru 1964 clones of pre-CBS era Vintage Pickup recreations - Lots of repete Customers returing year after year!~

"Hey Don I just wanted to let you I have Installed the pickups and they were worth every bit of the wait!" Sample of the 100s of emails I got like this one for over 17 years now!

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**I make new*Vintage Clones**

of 1950 to 1964 pre CBS

only style HAND WIND's

'PRE CBS

Was the only true

Vintage Single Coil Pickups Only'