The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on the electric guitar and other string instruments that allows a musician to produce distinctive timbres and overtones that are unavailable on a conventional string instrument with two bridges (a nut and a bridge). " The pencil creates, "a damping effect and also prevents energy from transferring across the bridge to the opposing string segment," with the dowel, "resulting in greater sustain and cross-string resonance," and the bracket, "offers even more sustain than a dowel." Different possible shapes of a third bridge: "a common six-sided pencil, a round dowel, and an L-shaped bracket. Sent you a mail on the DeArmond model 40 pickups and othe vintage parts did you receive my asking if you wanted pics and info. Click on the about me link near the top left and you'll find my email. I might be interested in the DeArmond pickups. i'm to old now to think of a build great pics of your collection I have 2 DeArmond model 40 pickups with 9 reading, any idea who wold be interested in fact I have the whole set up off avery old guitar, switches, machine heads, pots and pot cans x3, I am sure someone is in need. Plan on putting all three into the same build.Īny idea who makes a humbucker pickup with a similar tone? i have a japanese les paul copy and a set of these pick ups and i love'm but not sure if i can make'm fit in a les paul.im willing to buy something similar in a humbucker if any one knows who makes'm.other wise i may have to take mine a part and some how fabricate a pick up ring to make these fit. I have one that reads out 7.96K, much hotter. Two of them have a black leatherette cloth which will gold leaf nicely, one is already gold - otherwise they are identical to the pickups you show. I am a builder who just landed three of these. Hey Nik, those 4 pickup models are great, hand on to that one.Īaronstrumpel, you should be able to reach me at and I do have some of these pickups available right now. Hi - i was wondering what pickups you have lying around - the email link didn't work unfortunately - i'm in love w/ some dearmond gold foils in an old bobkat i picked up yesterday.thanks! Heh heh heh - my old Teisco's got four of those babies, and I love each and every one of them. I didn't make the one pictured, but I'm sure you can do a search and find detailed instructions somewhere. The ones pictures here are larger than a fender pickup and you can also find them without the "flange" and those are also a bit larger I believe. You can always email me and see what I have at the time. Where could I find a set of 3 replacement pickups?ĮBay is your best bet for these pickups although I usually have a few sitting around my collection. I have taken apart one of the destroyed pickups that came with my vintage hand made guitar, and is indeed a goldfoil pickup, except with a plastic cover. Are these pickups^ any longer, than say a standard fender pickup from today? The holes are just slightly too long for standard pickups made today. Sadly, the pick guard is a one of a kind, and I cannot seem to find pickups that will fit it. I am in the middle of restoring a 1970's hand made guitar. I have about 3 more sets of these pickups so if you're looking for a set, send me an email. Here are some examples of guitars modified with the addition of a Teisco Goldfoil. A lapsteel bridge pickup and the old Teisco Del Ray neck pickup is mounted to a Fender Stratocaster. The most popular way of using these pickups is the "CooderCaster", a custom guitar originally built for Ry Cooder. The lead wires are over 8 inches long on both of the pickups. The neck pickup measured 5.49K ohms and bridge pickup measured 5.43K ohms. I marked the N and B on the backs to track their original position on the guitar. These were pulled as a working matched set from a Melody branded Teisco guitar with other issues. This was Teisco's version of the famous DeArmond Gold Foil pickups used on many Harmony guitars of the 1960's. They are 1960's vintage Goldfoil guitar pickups similar to those used by Ry Cooder on his guitar. I acquired up these pickups in September of 2008 and they have market value of $100.00.