Imagine going back in time to the 1950s and being able to get a set of pickups wound to suit your style and gear, then zoom back to today -- Don Mare's Pickups has done it!

Bridge uses correct smaller vintage enamel wire 43 and AlNiCo 3

Neck uses correct vintage enamel wire 43 and AlNiCo 5
(as found on the original Broadcasters®!)

A very much-favored 1950-1951 Broadcaster® era set of pickups! (for early Broadcaster® Tone)

Available in sets!
6.3k Neck is our 1955 model with the transparent Nickel Silver Cover

~Calling all...Roy Buchanan ~ fans... Please Read:

My LIFETIME GOAL, was to actually make a bridge pickup identical in every way to Roy Buchanan's 53 Tele he nicknamed Nancy,

The pickup in his Nancy never would give up a ohm reading.. This baffled us for years and years... But it’s not uncommon for a pickup to fail, and suddenly lose its entire bass... I used to get calls about pickups doing that in the field and we would offer replacements.. The common complaint was this: "all the bass is gone and now it sounds treble-y ~ and now I can’t get any ohm readings ~ yet it’s still working, but it’s a total treble bomb"

2007 when I was allowed to play Nancy and go "under her hood" and take readings..etc.. No ohm reading from bridge.. So I recorded some clips www.roybuchanan.org click on :( Music)

That’s me testing Nancy with the owner because he thought something was wrong and it needed fixed.. LOL.... BTW.. Nancy's Christy Auction House value is currently at $600K the majority of the interest in obtaining her is that sound of hers.. Just listen to my clip.. she was unique.. There’s no way to debunk that! It’s because of that failing pickup, and the neck was nicely spec-ed from the factory.

But for 4 years... steady I’ve chased that sound... got close using alternative components... etc... And have made revisions to my product with every new break thru...

But deep down inside I wanted to know just what happened inside Nancy’s pickup and the duplicate it perfectly without adding a thing... But to recreate it perfectly - Cloning it, or making a Twin Sister! That was my Life Time Goal that I wanted to achieve in this life!

WHY?.... just because Nancy is often thought of as the best sounding Telecaster that there ever was... need I say more? She’s super important, that voice of hers needed recreated.. and it was my mission to hopefully do just that and then offer it to those who wanted it dearly.. Just like I once needed it dearly when I decided to sport a band that just did Roy’s tunes. BUCK CANNON BAND..

There was no other way to get that sound, IE this sound!

Available in sets or as rewinds, best for today's
modern country or rockers!
Set 6.2K Neck & 6.80k Bridge,
with staggered alnico-5 magnets, this set's said to be slightly
brighter than your basic modern 7.2K Tele®. This set has
period correct white cotton string. There's no ice pick
(none of my sets ice pick) my wind pattern cures that!
(Country and rock players this is a very,
very dynamic set )

**OPTIONAL RELICING
done for $20.00 extra per set ($10.00 ea.),
click the button at the bottom of
this page to order relicing.

Note: Also available with flat pole magnets -
please leave a note with your paypal order
or via e-mail if you want your set with
flat pole magnets!

Note: Also available in flat pole option upon email request.

(1) "Zep0tone 1"-Studio Version,

With: 5.7 Bridge/6.5 Neck (Staggered AlNiCo 5 Bridge)

  :These 5.7k bridges were found to KILLER!~WITH PINE WOOD bodies~

as used by, Rick Kelly "Carmine Street Guitars" NY, NY.
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(2)"Zep0tone 2" Live Version,

ROCKERS or BLUES PLAYERS, this is the,"go to set up!"
(Bridge is hotter than studio set,the story goes the bridge
was rewound for Live work and became 6.6k)
With: 6.6 Bridge/6.5neck - So on the Neck we used AlNiCo 3
"this was is used in place of
A-5 to simulate a highly degaussed AlNiCo 5 that was
found on the original."

(But the Bridge is Alnico 5 Staggered)

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(3)"Tapped Zep0tone"

1st Tap:  5.7 Studio

2nd Tap: 6.6 Live

Includes:  250k Push Pull Pot, .047 N.O.S. Tone Cap, and 1 foot of Vintage Push Back Cloth Wire

**SAME NECK PICKUP AS ABOVE SETS**

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Reliced, aged crackled Laquered, with real Violin
Bow Rosen dust (see pic below).
*Relic work is $20.00 extra per set.

To ORDER  your new

(1 Studio),  (2 Live) or (3 Tapped), simply email me after your payment, at Pay Pal was made, or you can try to use Pay Pals "send a note to seller"  type window - either ways good!

Wire 42 S-style wire is used, in place of wire 43,
that is found in all Tele® necks. Add with any bridge
above 6.2k. Killer neck sound for Stratocaster® style
tone, yet it's in a stock Telecaster® style chrome
covered neck Telecaster® style pickup.
Switch any set's neck to a S-telly - Use the Pay Pal button to add the upcharge of $15.00-its an 2nd. transaction all its own on Pay Pal - see button below...

Here's the first review to come back on an S-telly!
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A recent letter sent to us about this neck pickup:
"Dear SIR,
OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! Oh MY GOD! I can't put my guitar down.
What planet are you from? The neck pickup is the smoothest,
glassiest, warmest, richest, most vintage sounding hunk of
tone I have ever heard. My tele® sounds like a strat® at the flip of a switch.
Not just a strat®, but THE perfect strat® tone. The one I could never find
in a strat®. Seriously! Oh, but the bridge.
THE BRIDGE!
The bridge is just nasty. Dirtier than a 4 dollar tijuana hooker.
No pick. No shrill. Harmonic as all hell. She growls and bites
and snarls more than any humbucker I've ever played and it just
keeps getting better. The more I play, the more I love you.
Two little pickups. 3 little positions. Yet, sooooooooo many
tonal possibilities. I took it down to my local luthier genius
(he said it sounded, better than most real vintage teles® he's had
come through his doors)and all the guys in the shop gathered
round and refused to believe the specs. These things can go from
a whisper to a scream effortlessly. I might have to order another set
for the next life in case we don't end up in the same realm.
OK, enough of that. Thank you very, very much.
I will sing praises of your name to every Fender® player I ever
encounter throughout all my days. I couldn't be happier.
Keep on keepin' on. It is comforting to know there are guys
like you out there. Great product, great customer service.
Thank you! "

John Sturgill Simpson
(Stelly "Tele® Neck" --&--7 .5k Alnico 3 bridge Tele®)

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$134.50 single coil chrome stock Tele® neck pickup
A Strat® in a Tele® cover.

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1954 to 64' Era Neck,

AlNiCo-5 magnets

Nickel Silver Cover,

Neck pickup for Tele^®  6.3k  
This is our Standard 55'-to-75' Vintage sound Neck Pickup for Tele®

This is the same pickup that's found on all my sets;

(except the 2324 and Donocasters - those sets use the 1953)

Clean - Clear - Bell Tones -  cover; transparent Nickel Silver  cover
$119.50 each

**OPTIONAL RELICING
done for $20.00 extra per set, or $10.00 each
click the button at the bottom
of this page to order relicing.

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  MICROPHONICS
  

  A microphonic quality is built right in to these pickups - I do things to insure the good ones stay and the bad ones are gone, You can still hear clicks and talk into my pickups 'because we're after that true Old School tone!

  The degree is moderate to avoid unwanted squeal.Currently, we take out the squeal and leave in the good microphonics.
  
  DO YOU USE HIGH METAL-ish GAIN? Please let us know this when you order -
  (email us) or use "send a note" window at PayPal then we will wax pot the pickups, a few more minutes longer so they will handle higher gain,as is Tube Screamers® are fine - it's the heavier Gain/Metal-ish pedals that will cause
  unwanted higher gain squeal -
  
  

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• DBA: Don Mare Pickups Long Beach, CA.
  
• We sell guitar pickups that use the Fender® Stratocaster® guitar and Fender® Telecaster® guitar and Gibson® guitar. They are high quality pickups for Fender® guitars and Gibson® guitars (and many other brands).
  
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