{"id":1309,"date":"2016-08-06T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T16:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T16:12:38","slug":"open-letter-to-pickup-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2016\/08\/06\/open-letter-to-pickup-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Pickup Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Don Baker.\u00a0\u00a0 I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HumbuckingPairs.com\">HumbuckingPairs.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Also the web sites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquarien.com\">aquarien.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.android-originals.com\">android-originals.com<\/a> and theandroidsaxe.com.\u00a0 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20160027422A1\/en<\/p>\n<p>I have filed two more Provisional Patent Applications (PPA) on pickup switching systems.\u00a0 My last PPA included a switching system that acts like a car&#8217;s automatic transmission, shifting from bright to warm without the musician having to know which pickup combinations are involved.\u00a0 (Do you know exactly how your transmission shifts gears?)\u00a0 It could work for pianos, too.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also been doing some work with 2D magnetic field and electronic circuit modeling software (Maxwell and Tina T.I.), to develop new kinds of pickups.\u00a0 You can find my degrees, three engineering degrees and a Ph.D., at www.aquarien.com\/vita.html, an old research, tutorial and vanity site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m making inquiries of a number of companies, looking for money to develop and file patents, in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as profit-sharing.\u00a0 Do you have the interest, and legal and financial abilities to do so?\u00a0 Usually, established companies claim to be too busy with their own projects, or that they need a large order to proceed.\u00a0 You only have to do that once.<\/p>\n<p>A good start would be to tell me that you are making or bringing out humbuckers and pickups with equal turns on the cores to plus or minus 5 turns, using wire of the same size and insulation.\u00a0 However, any company that tries to appropriate one of my patents will be cut off cold and sued by some willing psycho lawyer.\u00a0 But if you go with me, pickups and switching systems will change forever.\u00a0 For example, most dual-humbucker guitars come with a 3-way switch.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found 20 possible combinations, covered by a PPA, that to the best of my knowledge no one else uses.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nDon Baker dba android originals LC<\/p>\n<p>axe1 [a] TulsaSoundGuitars [d] c*m<\/p>\n<p>No solicitations for web site development or mobile apps, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, My name is Don Baker.\u00a0\u00a0 I created the web site TulsaSoundGuitars.com and the sub-site HumbuckingPairs.com.\u00a0 Also the web sites aquarien.com, android-originals.com and theandroidsaxe.com.\u00a0 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 9,401,134 to me, described at: https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20160027422A1\/en &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2016\/08\/06\/open-letter-to-pickup-makers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,116],"tags":[159,233,93,230,172,257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}