I AM OPEN very LATE (Swing Shift) In Service now for 17 -Years: DON MARE pre-CBS era Vintage Pickup recreations - Lots of repete Customers returing year after year!~

DMP ONE PERSON SHOP,- I work late nights ( and its also ok to call me ) SOLO Worker I strive to give you all the best Tone my hands can create - I have 17 years worth of emails telling me this: "well worth the wait" Todays ETA's are estimated between 4 to 6 months They were 1-year in 2021 they are 1/2 now as I work more then ever before for you!

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BUCK@BUCKCANNON.com
phone> is my cell
(Don_Mare, Calif. Pactime)
Ph# 562. 331-9042

 
MY PHONE AND EMAIL
 my Phones or Emai's -
 562 426 - 2596 
/ buck@buckcannon.com
 

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
--------------------------------
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"
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