Monthly Archives: August 2016

Got knob tooling set up again

This carbonized bamboo knob, from a Cali Bamboo ™ “fossilized woven strand” floor sample, and finished with superglue, has some iridescence in the caramel-colored streaks.  Although hard to see in this image, the end grain is mottled dark brown, with … Continue reading

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USPTO Official Gazette notice for 9/13/2016

Patent 9,401,134 Acoustic-electric stringed instrument with improved body, electric pickup placement, pickup switching and electronic circuit Will appear in the 9/13/2016 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Official Gazette, listed as being offered for license (only, not sale).

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General Equations for Humbucking Pairs

(c) 2016 Don Baker Combinations of pickups don’t tell you how to connect them together.  They only tell you how many you have to work with.  This article, General Equations for Combinations of Humbucking Pairs, provides development and equations for: … Continue reading

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Open Letter to Pickup Makers

Good Morning, My name is Don Baker.   I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site HumbuckingPairs.com.  Also the web sites aquarien.com, android-originals.com and theandroidsaxe.com.  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160027422A1/en … Continue reading

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Humbucking Quad PPA – 10s, 100s, 1000s of tones

Excerpts from Provisional Patent Application Filed for Humbucking Quads So KK number of humbuckers can have: KK = 2, 3, 4, 5                                    humbucking pairs 2*KK = 4, 6, 8, 10                              humbucking pair tones KK = 1, 3, 6, … Continue reading

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