by vaughn skow August 30, 2017 5 min read
Over the past few years I've re-built hundreds of pickups; many are the well known Fender style single coils and Gibson style humbuckers. However, I also work on and build a lot of lesser known models. I'd like to talk about two of these, the Gretsch style HiLo Tron and the most famous of all "Goldfoils", the one in Ry Cooder's "Coodercaster". Ya ready, let's dig in!
The reason I decided to group these two very different designs together is because they are both single coil pickups with "a little somptin' on the side". In the case of the HiLo Tron, the magnet is off to the side of the coil, and the Goldfoil has the individual adjustable pole screws off to the side. Both of these pickups were born in the "Golden Era" of electric guitar design before the rules were set in stone ... anything goes was the only rule!
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