DON MARE PICKUPS email or call 562 331-9042 Pac Time Call me, or Email, BUCK@BUCKCANNON.COM -I'm DEEP into Vintage Tone. 1950 to 1964 Single Coil's

Don Mare Pickups - DEEP into reproducing '50 to '64 Vintage Single Coil's - I have a Trackable history online, with 16 years of making Happy-Camper's out of Vintage Purtist types! Google me and have a look see.

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Yes Sir: "Im still open" & I'm working even more hours then before - updated on 5-5-2020 Don.
Hello, It's Great to have you here looking at my Pickups! ( Thank you!)
I have
16 years in Vintage Tone service!

Vintage Single Coil's are my thing, 1950 to 1964

My Cell + Text is,

Ph# 562. 331-9042

PACTIME 11 AM to 7 PM



 GOOGLE me ["Don Mare Pickups"] 16 years of  reviews.
 

-I do Prefer to work ALONE for TONE! -
( Im not a factory with workers)
-All pickups are made by me (DON MARE)-
05/05/2020 Updated -->the waits are estimated between 18 to 24 weeks at all times.. and SO-FAR in 16 years my pickups never once failed to reach the buyer and I promise they will always get to your door!
 
( 05/05/2020 all hand made _And_"hand wound" 100% by just me.)


Email is
BUCK@BUCKCANNON.com
Email me today for all your pickup tone needs!

 For any pre-Orders in the que,
and you wish to get a closer estimate "ETA"also use email; buck@buckcannon.com please.
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YOUR _"TONE-PHONE"_Number is;
562.331-9042 PAC-Time / West-coast USA
(OPEN 11 AM to 7 PM Pactime, Off Sat and Sun)






(Lead Times // 18 to 24 weeks//  just upated on. 05-5-2020)
I ship USPS 3-day
Tiny slim box that will fit inside,
 most all mailboxes. 6"x 6"x 3"


email;  buck@buckcannon.com

Shipping address,
DON MARE
 PO BOX 91326
Long Beach Ca 90809
I really do answer all emails, Calling is OK too PH.# 562 331 9042  PAC-Time 11am to 7 Pm

 so if you dont get a reply it also may have been caught and trashed by Spam House and has~bounced  
try another email account, please
need any Help? ... My Cell is 562 331 9042 
Pactime 11:00am to 6:00pm (is best time to call )

or Emailing is great too,
BUCK@BUCKCANNON.com


I am a ONE MAN-factory- 1950s style hand labor-
ALWAYS HAND WOUND
and its done using the best Vintage Wind Pattern!
(I like to call it "The Rosie Wrap" Wind Pattern )
For 16 Years 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 of my customers claiming these are,
the best they have used to date!
thats always been online ( using GOOGLE) for the world to go see! 

I've remained a grass roots maker
its all - word of mouth bussines,  for 16 years
( I have  never advertized once!)
the ole' A vs. B
{Vintage test} has been done over and over by Customers, and
for 16 years = my customers
and the reports have been that I have indeed authentic vintage tone,
and That I also just may be the best maker today - you decide?
( heres a neat tid-bit, in 16 years nobody has ever asked me for a refund $.)

 
RELICING is optional. $10.00 ea. or $20.00 set

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...

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 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 a Custom "Coal Burner" 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 

 LA JONES and the BLUES MESSENGERS: Formvar 50's, Joel Foy set

 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: Custom Set for S-style: Neck and Middle, Enamel,,, But with a extra Hot Formvar 50s Bridge; 7.2k

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)

Over 16,000 of my pickups are out there today - 16 years worth!
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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.

I use it on all my pickups.

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" 16 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"
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