DUCKBUCKER!?!? wth????

[Cory_Dylan]

ok i'm gonna feel like an idiot when someone tells me...

but what in the hell is a "DUCKBUCKER"????

i've heard people mention them on here and i saw it in someones sig... what are they??? are they a dimarzio?

[Lewguitar]

I think a Duckbucker might be almost the same as a Vintage Rails, only the Duckbucker has polepieces? My single coils don't quack but apparantly some people think they do! Lew

[tone4days]

duckbucker is the name of a seymour duncan single coil sized humbucker ... it gets its name from its property of preserving the strat-esqe 'quack' tone .. check in the product section of the SD website to read more about it

cheers,
t4d

[Cory_Dylan]

i looked in the SD product section and i didn't see anything about a "duckbucker"...
hm, oh well, i get the idea now.

[Jeff_H]

Duckbuckers™
see | hear | specs | dimensions
SDBR-1 Such a silly name for such a serious pickup! Using a patented design and a voicing based on our Vintage Rails™. Duckbuckers offer the advantage of incorporating six fully adjustable pole pieces. And by using the true hum canceling construction together with a unique, split blade design, Duckbuckers duplicate all the warm tone, cool output, and outrageous quack of a vintage Strat® pickup. All quack, no hum. U.S. Patent No. 5,525,750.
Available in black or white

[tone4days]

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website...uckersforStrat

[Cory_Dylan]

ooooo..... lol

[korovamilkdud]

I think they sound pretty cool myself. And no hum either. I'd try them if I had a strat.

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duckbucker is a prototype made by dimarzio.
you see, many years back there was a man(buck) who lived neck to a large lake and everyday this man would go out a feed these ducks. the man soon grew an acute affixiation with these ducks and attempted sexual harassment to his favorite duck, lucy. the man was charged with sexual harassment of another species, and was sentenced life in prison. while in prison, buck learned to appreciate music to a large extent. he learned musical terms like "quack" for a strat, as welll as others. 3 years into his sentence he was given a chance at paroll, after he left the prison he said that he would end all interspecies sexual harassment, and one day he was playing a guitar. it was a strat. he was very annoyed by the hum that the single coils were producing, so he said that he would make a pickup that has that quack of a single coil but has hum cancellation. he looked all over, far and wide and found the dimarzio pickup company in late 1978. he took his ideas to larry dimarzio, larry said that the pickup would change the world of pickup manufacturing forever!!! so he made (by hand) the prototype of the duckbuckers and had some of the big guitar companies install it on some models. a few of these comapanies were fender, ibenhad, and a new and up-and-coming guitar maker named wayne charvel. these pickups were in production for about 2 1/2 years until larry decided that they weren't doing as good as he thought they would. so he threw the plans in the garbage, then one day a one Seymour Duncan was walking down the streets and found this paper that had all the instructions on how to build one, as seymour had previously built pickups before so he had parts and such. seymour waited a few years until releasing it, so he could perfect the final product and when he introduced it at NAMM it was to a surpising avail!
they were selling like hotcakes after that, and he made millions
and here we are now.

[southadc]

If you're interested in how it works, go to:

http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/bn...++5525750A1+I+

This is the patent for this and the vintage rails. Essentially, they play with the polepiece height to attempt to replicate the magnetic field of a single coil pickup in a humbucker. Clever stuff. The pictures are on pages 2 and 3.

[tskullt]

hey,
i put duckbuckers in my mustang and just love 'em. great single coil sound with no hum!
m.