The best players & guitar techs alive today have found true "tone magic" with my hand re-wound pickup service.
Junior Watson
Rick Holmstrom
Joel Foy
Danny Ott- "GUITAR DOCTOR WEST"
Doc Pittillo- "The Guitar Doctor"
LA Jones
AC Porter
Steve Smith
Al Blake
and many more!
Many more top names are joining the ranks daily!
Please read this letter below from Joel Foy, it's about his
special 1951 Tele® and the restoration I did to his pickup...
"Thank's for the great job, Don."
It was a sad day when I discovered the bridge pickup on my trusted '51 Tele® was dying.
I'd owned the guitar for most of my adult life, and it had a distinctive bark and pop that was
loaded with character and low-down funk. I'd never heard quite the same tone in any other Tele®,
and I had no idea if I could find someone who would even understand the sound, let alone be able
to recreate it. But I knew I had to try. After numerous phone calls around the country,
I had recommendations for all the best Fender and Tele pickup guys from coast-to-coast,
and all points in between. They were all highly skilled and qualified, and most names were familiar
to me, but visits to their websites still left me undecided. Then my old friend Junior Watson, the man
with the golden ear, recommended a Tele fanatic in Long Beach - Don Mare with Cannon Rewinds.
Junior Watson told me this guy, who was completely unknown to me, was obsessed with black guard
Tele®’s and would be the best man for the job. A half-hour conversation with Don Mare, interspersed
with sound samples of different guitars and pickups he'd put together convinced me that he not only
understood and loved the many varieties of black guard Tele® tone possibilities, but that he understood
all the design intricacies - wire gauge, winding cross-hatch patterns, insulation, coil density,
wrapping tension, resistance, magnet strength, etc., etc. that affect a pickup's sound. He went the extra
mile, in fact, many extra miles to see that the bad coil on my pickup was recreated as accurately as
possible.
This included microscope work, coil weight, photo-analysis, hand cleaning the corroded magnets
and bobbin, listening to recordings of the original pickup, and the tedious process of unwrapping
by hand 3000 winds of the original coil so he could recreate the original winding pattern, all interspersed
with photos, emails, and phone calls. His meticulous work paid off when I got the pickup back in the
guitar and discovered, along with every other guitar player in the room, that the re-wrapped pickup had
the same sizzle, punch, and funk as before. Don Mare's impeccable craftsmanship made my '51' Tele® as
good as old, and that ain't easy!
Pickup Rewinding & Vintage Tone Restorations
What you need and want is our mission. Your current pickups may already have good magnets.
Restoring/Rewinding service Price List
Tele® - $100.00 each
Strat® Set $240.00
sorry - no Humbucker rewinds
or any odd style pickups
You can have that custom hand-made set today. It will be 100% dialed in to your personal needs!
Rewinds need lots of TLC, customers need lots of TLC, you deserve the best! This is especially true when dealing with your valuble vintage pickups rewinding needs. Winding patterns need to be duplicated (this means at least one hour of backwinding by hand to learn the scatter winding pattern of the original pickup winder).
Parts may also need to be dupilcated. Every step of the way needs to be photographed and documented - this can sometimes involve many hours and usually it does.
CONTACT
DON MARE
562-439-9398
Send pickups for rewinding to:
Don Mare
15 Bay Shore Ave. Apt. B
Long Beach, California, 90803
I have a very safe & secure mail system
e-mail: buck@buckcannon.com
Single coils: $100.00 ea
P-90's: $100.00 ea
(Gibson® and Duncans and a few others take a rewind well--call)
P-bass: $125.00, 2x2-split pup
J-bass: $100.00 ea
(562)439-9398 or e-mail: buck@buckcannon.com
NOTE:
When shipping here, please use US MAIL, include inside the box: a phone number and your address written out clearly one more time.
Call or e-mail prior to sending anything, OK?
SEND TO:
DON MARE
15 Bayshore Ave. Suite. B
Long Beach Ca. 90803
***NOTE***
We do not rewind or service:
--Plastic Single Coil pickups -
NO plastic bobbins
(We like vintage black Forbon Fiberboard only) -
No modern-types, or any "Hum-cancelling" single coils...
We are trying to achieve pre-set tones here. It's always better to buy our new pickups; we use rare, hard to get NOS vintage parts and have the machines set to complete that tone with these parts.
PLEASE SELL YOUR REISSUE PICKUPS ON EBAY OR IN THE CLASSIFIED ADS AND BUY MY NEW STOCK PICKUPS. THE MAGNETS I USE ARE A SURE BET AND ALL THE SPECS ARE PRE-SET RIGHT WHERE I LIKE THEM TO BE, THIS WAY YOU GET 100% OF THAT FAMOUS "DON MARE TONE."
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