Guitars with Rotated Pickups

Although the Springtime has perhaps become the most famous guitar with rotated pickups I’m by far not the first who tried this.

Sam Dook has incorporated a rotated pickup on his telecaster (or what’s his guitar? Can’t find the pic on my computer, sorry) and when I met Deerhoof recently Ed Rodriguez told me he had modified his guitars in quiet the same direction, also with rotated pickups and pickups in the tail piece like I did in at the Twister and later on also on some of the Springtimes.

Sometimes I find pics on internet. Below is a gallery of pics of guitars with rotated pickups I am aware of. If you have more, please send me, if you know the owner or more info about the guitars below, please also contact me. I like technology nerds.

Strat with an additional Precision pickup for the barre chord section. If I see it correctly it’s connected to a second output near the Skull. Bridge pickup replaced by a small sized hunbucker. Owner, unknown, found on internet.

This band above is Experimental Dental School. (http://www.experimentaldental.com/about.php)

Jesse Hall has cut off his tele to make it look more like Bo Diddley’s square guitar. He told me he once tried to punch out the poles at certain pickups and succeeded in this, without breaking the wire. Another way to generate single string amplification.

Soon more pics.

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