24 years as a PICKUP DESIGNER, 19 years as a Highly RATED PRE-CBS era VINTAGE PICKUP MAKER with over 60% of the customers returning year after year

FOR ETA, POLE POSISTIONS, BATCH NUMBER,

SEE photos below----> batches are going to start moving faster now... I have a new Unit I built inside the main 20' X 60' Industrial unit - its a 10' X 10' Sound booth with AC and heat - its housed the widing operation perfectly - as winding was the most time consuming opertation so its done in Comfort as of today 11-1-2023. We (Long beach CA) have had constant HEAT WAVES since spring - the word SWEAT SHOP is no JOKE in these large INDUSTRIAL WORK SHOPS!

I am only making your past due pickups ( A steady HEAT WAVE in Long Beach CA from Spring till today even! That has made my Industrial; 20' X 60' shop overheat - its always up at: 83*degrees _INSIDE_ to 104* Inside!!, So... if it's hot just, 77*degrees OUTSIDE will do it... and INSIDE I hit 94* degrees inside from 2PM to 3AM - my fans sometimes take me down to 86* - so I turned my sound booth into the winder room with its ac and heat control - that just was complete 10-31-2023 I will be winding in it tonight - so problem solved and I can get my 11 hour days back in full swing /play -

from the past orders of the year 2022's SALES FLOOD.

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BATCH #197 = June / July 2022

BATCH #198 order dates there all from JULY 2022

Batch # 199

batch # 200

BATCH # 201

BATCH # 202

BATCH # 203

BATCH # 204

BATCH # 205

BATCH # 206

BATCH # 207

BATCH # 208

BATCH # 209

BATCH # 210 FINAL LAST BATCH it completes all orders ever taken by me!

ONE MAN = (ME) DON MARE. I never considered myself as a Business or will I ever conform to that STUFFYNESS REQUIRED of a BUSSINES not so much ONE MAN WORKING alone and on a personal level with all the customers who wanted a freindly Maker to help them.,

I am all I can be for my customers, and All I can be is just ME started at AGE- 43 working full time on pickups 5-years at a LARGE Maker as a designer and Alteration Shop president. // 19 years on my own as DMP solo maker - ( like the Village Shoemaker was my model! on a very personal level easy to reach 19 years long! )

this Pickup Maker Operation of mine, It was suppose to just be all 100% GRASS ROOTS, for those who discoved me etc.. - I NEVER Would do no ads - or seek or allow any magazine Interviews or Video Interviews - no advertizing all!

And it worked out for me and very - smoothly for 17 years the Pickups did all teh TALKING and their OWNERS! no ads no slogans and especially no BS! or SNAKE OIL SALESMEN.

Then On my 18th year (JAN. 2022) it seemed like the whole wide world was Ordering all at once on my PAYPAL menu pages, - so NOV. 2022 I was forced to turn off that DMP Pickups website SALES / ordering PAGE that was for the first time I ever had to do that!

So as of NOV.19th 2022. I NEVER DID TAKE ANOTHER ORDER again!

So,,, Untill I can clear out the orders recived go on a VACA'~~~ (1st. in 18 years!) return to remodel the website - chose a new sales system - no more pre-orders or wish list etc.. and REOPEN this Clip Joint~ LOL

Its now 11-1-2023 I still have 13 Batched Runs to complete ( there was over 65 Batches that landed here in 2022)

Phone Number# 562 331 9042

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Some artists who enjoy Don Mare Pickups...

( last edit was 2019 -

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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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
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In 2003 Gretsch® entered into an agreement
with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC),
under the terms of which Fred Gretsch III
would continue to own the company, with
FMIC handling most development, distribution and sales.[

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ES-175®, ES-335®, L-5®, Byrdland®,
Epiphone® and P-90® are registered
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of Rickenbacker International Corporation ("RIC"),

3895 S. Main St., Santa Ana, California 92707, USA.

24 years as a PICKUP DESIGNER, 19 years as a Highly RATED PRE-CBS era VINTAGE PICKUP MAKER with over 60% of the customers returning 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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