SEYMOUR DUNCAN SLS-1 Lipstick Pickup

The lipstick pickup was designed for the entry-level Danelectros in the 1950s.
These postal order guitars were cheap. Very cheap. For example, the body wasnt
made of what we now consider tonewood. The bridge could hardly be intonated.
But the tone Oh, the tone Part of the equation that makes the Danelectros so
epic, is the pickup. It is a single coil, but without a bobbin. The coil is wrapped
around the magnet itself and the entire contraption is put inside a metal casing,
akin to a lipstick tube, sealed with wax/epoxy. This is as simple as it gets.
But dont let simplicity fool you. The lipstick pickup is perfectly capable of
creating amazing, versatile tones. I like to compare it to a happy marriage
between the twang of a Tele, the sparkle of the Strat but with a character of its
own altogether. The Lipstick pickup is bound to give you an amazing tone, no
matter in what kind of guitar you stick it into. A note has to be placed concerning
the neck pickup of a Tele. Despite its chrome exterior, the neck pickup of a tele
is of a total different breed than the lipstick tube. Its been mistaken for a lipstick
pickup, but the tele neck pickup is wound on a bobbin whereas the lipstick
pickup, clearly, is not.