Tag Archives: pickups

New U.S. Patent filed & background published

Posted on March 10, 2018 by admin

Yesterday, I filed my 3rd Non-Provisional Patent Application, and today published the background theory for it at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323686205_Making_Guitars_with_Multiple_Tonal_Characters   The patent involves matched, single-coil pickups for humbucking circuits with reversible magnetic poles. I have a new area for publications of papers … Continue reading →

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Theory has to be tested

Posted on June 22, 2017 by admin

I used to work in numerical modeling – a computer algorithm approximating an ideal equation approximating a physical process.  One of my best papers demonstrated that for decades other Ph.D.s had been using approximations that produced non-physical results even in … Continue reading →

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New PPA filed – June 20, 2017

Posted on June 21, 2017 by admin

On June 20, 2017, I filed a new Provisional Patent Application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.  It covers modifications to two types of electro-magnetic guitar pickups, with horizontal and vertical coils, to provide information on the orientation of … Continue reading →

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Two New Tutorials on Humbucking Pickup Pairs

Posted on June 27, 2016 by admin

Two new tutorial pages are up now on switching and positioning humbucking pairs made up of matched single-coil pickups: Wiring All-Humbucking Single-Coil Pickups has excerpts from Patent Application US 2016/0027422 A1, demonstrating how the wiring is done. Notes on Humbucking … Continue reading →

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