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The Fountain Pickup

 

 

While under the grips of a high fever ... I had series of bizarre ideas ... one's that never occurred to me before. 

 

Basically a way to "shoot up" an extremely powerful magnetic field ... tall, wide , strong and most importantly ... uniform !!!

 

Very similar to the field generated by my H-Shoe, MRI, Convertible and Potbelly assemblies ... 
 

Except this has ... no "over the strings" component ...  my first conventional style ...  "under the strings" unit. 

 

The coil is wound with 38 AWG Magnet Wire

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two sizes available

 

The larger unit ... for 10 - 12 string steel guitars

 

Testing the large size prototype in my JB Frypan

 

 

The smaller unit ... for 6 - 8 string Steel Guitars

 

 

Here's some reviews and related information

 

http://www.hsga.org/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1202070707

 

http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=127232

 

http://www.hsga.org/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1216041889