DON MARE PICKUPS is a solo ran shop, emailing is prefferd My 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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 Happy New Year* 1/21 *Newly Updated:
(Yes)
I'm OPEN
as we are Heading into 2021
Please email me: buck@buckcannon.com
if we ever need to get on  A Old TELE_phone together,
I will Gladly email that Ph# ok -
BUT: I really like to try to use Email first,
as I do work alone 100% (it's just me here)
and the Phone has me tuning off,
Louder Machines that I need to use, ok
( I also talk too long thanks to:
300 days of this crazy Isolation effect
form CV-19 - I get stuck Chatting away!
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  NEW as of 1/21 UPDATED ETA'S
16- to -19 weeks on the  ETA's -
"I aways get emailed after they ship, and the emails tell me it was,
"WELL WORTH THE WAITS" "And they will be-back to do it again soon" ...  
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1/21: My Cell PH# (562 )___ ____
Sadly anymore It is just for
Real Tone Emergancys
 ~So let us try ~
emailing first.  buck@buckcannon.com






 

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,


 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

1/21 -Emailing is great for me, calls usally stall me out as I work alone and most the machines are too loud to us the phone, I apoligize


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 )
 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.

 
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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