Question: Poll: Telecaster neck pickup is a lipstick pickup…

How many here refer to a tele neck pickup as a lipstick pickup?

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No lipstick pickups are different than a standard Tele pickup. If you just google a picture, you will see that it isn't a chrome cover over a normal pickup like a tele neck pup, rather it is in a tube with rounded ends. More like your girlfriends bullet vibrator in shape and (IMHO) function.
 
335clone said:
No lipstick pickups are different than a standard Tele pickup. If you just google a picture, you will see that it isn't a chrome cover over a normal pickup like a tele neck pup, rather it is in a tube with rounded ends. More like your girlfriends bullet vibrator in shape and (IMHO) function.
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Huh, just googled. Did not know that. Tele pick up it is then.
 
from https://reverb.com/news/a-guide-to-lipstick-pickups

"Daniel procured a large surplus of women’s lipstick tubes from a manufacturer. Inside, Daniel placed the most simple pickup to date – a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire without any bobbin at all. These were occasionally sealed in wax or lacquer.

For context, traditional Strat-style single coils have individual magnets as pole pieces held in a bobbin that is then wrapped in copper wire. The bar magnet changes the magnetic field of the pickup, giving it the unique window of the string vibration that it translates into sound.....

Many people refer to the neck pickup of a Telecaster as a lipstick, but it is actually a traditional single coil with a bobbin and a metal cover. Due to the larger bar magnet, lipsticks have much more note smear and a less-precise clean sound. This becomes more apparent when distorted, as the distortion highlights even more sound artifacts."
 
dodgechargerfan said:
from https://reverb.com/news/a-guide-to-lipstick-pickups

"Daniel procured a large surplus of women’s lipstick tubes from a manufacturer. Inside, Daniel placed the most simple pickup to date – a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire without any bobbin at all. These were occasionally sealed in wax or lacquer.

For context, traditional Strat-style single coils have individual magnets as pole pieces held in a bobbin that is then wrapped in copper wire. The bar magnet changes the magnetic field of the pickup, giving it the unique window of the string vibration that it translates into sound.....

Many people refer to the neck pickup of a Telecaster as a lipstick, but it is actually a traditional single coil with a bobbin and a metal cover. Due to the larger bar magnet, lipsticks have much more note smear and a less-precise clean sound. This becomes more apparent when distorted, as the distortion highlights even more sound artifacts."
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So true lipstick pickups are shit. Got it. lol
 
335clone said:
No lipstick pickups are different than a standard Tele pickup. If you just google a picture, you will see that it isn't a chrome cover over a normal pickup like a tele neck pup, rather it is in a tube with rounded ends. More like your girlfriends bullet vibrator in shape and (IMHO) function.
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And a true lipstick pickup itself is a different construction, no bobbins it's a coil around a bar mag
 
dodgechargerfan said:
from https://reverb.com/news/a-guide-to-lipstick-pickups

"Daniel procured a large surplus of women’s lipstick tubes from a manufacturer. Inside, Daniel placed the most simple pickup to date – a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire without any bobbin at all. These were occasionally sealed in wax or lacquer.

For context, traditional Strat-style single coils have individual magnets as pole pieces held in a bobbin that is then wrapped in copper wire. The bar magnet changes the magnetic field of the pickup, giving it the unique window of the string vibration that it translates into sound.....

Many people refer to the neck pickup of a Telecaster as a lipstick, but it is actually a traditional single coil with a bobbin and a metal cover. Due to the larger bar magnet, lipsticks have much more note smear and a less-precise clean sound. This becomes more apparent when distorted, as the distortion highlights even more sound artifacts."
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this guy teles
 
DinoMikeSr said:
I don’t recall ever seeing an actual lipstick pickup in a tele. Ever, in 50 years.
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And for good reason. But of course everything exists anyway.

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