Who has been the most influential in starting your pickup business?

Without a doubt it would be Les Paul. I would go to Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey and sneak back stage with Pat Martino (a jazz legend) when we were kids. We’d ask Les all kinds of questions and he’d show us his recording equipment, guitars and the electronics he had in them….

Where did you get your first material for a guitar pickup?

The first material I found for fabricating guitar bobbins came from old drum cases made from Vulcanized Fibre. I got my first Vulcanized Fibre from Jim Sharp, the drummer in one of my first bands called “The Flintones” in Gibbstown, New Jersey during the 60s. Most cases where 1/16″ thick and just right to fabricate…

Have you ever let a guitar go and regretted it later?

This sure has happened to me before! To this day I think of guitars that got away from me over 20 years ago that wish I still had. I’ve seen great guitars in stores or yard sales and procrastinated about buying it and when I returned it was gone. I’ve owned guitars that I decided…

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