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Second Patent Filed

Posted on June 8, 2017 by admin

Second Patent Filed: Combinations of Pickups with Potentially Unique Tones – Patent filed June 7, 2017 developing the math and circuit topologies to show how many different tones are possible from 1 to 8 single-coil pickups (Table 1), 1 to … Continue reading →

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Patent Pending Dual Humbucker Switching Beats 3-way Switch

Posted on April 14, 2017 by admin

See  Preliminary Results of Patent Pending 20-way Dual Humbucker Switching

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New knobs up to S/N 205

Posted on September 5, 2016 by admin

Using Cali Bamboo ™ flooring product 759151, “Fossilized” (apparently meaning glued and injected with a hard plastic) strand woven solid bamboo, carbonized at the factory to a dark brown, TSG serial-numbered knobs now go up to s/n 205.  They run … Continue reading →

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USPTO Official Gazette notice for 9/13/2016

Posted on August 15, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on August 10, 2016 by admin

(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

Posted on August 6, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on August 2, 2016 by admin

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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Fender(tm) – This means you

Posted on July 29, 2016 by admin

I got my U.S. Patent 9,401,134, filed July 23, 2014, issued July 26, 2014, out of the mailbox this morning.  Nice, fancy thing it is, all printed and bound, with an embossed gold seal of the United States Patent and … Continue reading →

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The way forward – strategic partnerships

Posted on July 22, 2016 by admin

I’ve been coming up with more ideas to patent than I can fund, even in just the U.S.. Without being entirely delusional, I believe these ideas can change, even disrupt, the manufacture of stringed instruments, giving artists who adopt such … Continue reading →

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