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9/09/20 *New*-Update:

Hello I'm DON MARE PICKUPS -

thanks for coming here!-_my back-story_

I'm a real ONE MAN SHOP,

so sorry I do not have 66 employees, LOL

- I only have "me" "myself" and "I"

all 3-of us work here...LOL ,

So this is a true OWNER OPERATOR

Micro- bussiness, but I am just a Person

at heart and I AM not a Bussiness man,

I am a PICKUP ARTIST -

I treat everyone like my best friend,

I am ANTI-INDUSTRY _ I am simi-retired..

I do not Place ads, allow cameras,

film crews or magazine interviews,

all my Artist have paid full-POP

$$ for their pickups...

my pickups do all the foot work...

( I prefer it this way)

I just make them and let them speak

for themselfs.

(thru my Customers - word of mouth)

grass roots...etc

I AM ALWAYS OPEN usally 7-days ,

I am always working and I work alone...

I have done this 16 years,,, IT WORKS,

but it takes time to make them _

I always have about 300 pickups to

make at all times - its been like this

for all these years - so after 16-years history

- its always ran about

20 to 26 weeks on the ETA's -

so all I really hope for is your kindness

while I build your pickups to prefection ...

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Updated on SEPT. 9th. 2020

ETA/WAIT TIMES = 20 to 26

weeks

on your new order.

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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 one-person (me)

DON MARE-

--09/9/2020 was the Last Update. -->

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

promise they will always get to your door!

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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Help_Number is;

562.331-9042 PAC-Time /

West-coast USA

(OPEN 11 AM to 7 PM Pactime,

Off on Sunday ( or Sunny-days LOL!)

Favor: please dont send

really Long-emails***

if you can help it?.ok

. Just call if it's long or full of question

Im 63-Years Young: I do not type so good

as I'm using just 2-fingers & I cant look

up at the screen ,

and so I do mispell words...

and sometimes I get flustrated (SOS!)~

So do CALL. please

don't be shy. :-)

PH#562.331-9042 PAC TIME

(Lead Times // 20 to 26 weeks//

just upated on. 08-20-2020)

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 7:00pm

(is best time to call )

or Emailing is great too,

but if you have many-many

questions try to call though -

please? As I can't type very well - apoligies ~~

BUCK@BUCKCANNON.com

I am a ONE MAN-factory- 1950s style

all hand labor-

ALWAYS HAND WOUND

and its done using the best ever,

ROSIE WRAP 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. almost all of

my customers 99.9%have been ctelling 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.

I've remained a grass roots maker

So all that means is its strictly been -

Word of mouth type 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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