. for the person see seymour w. duncan . this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message seymour duncan type private industry pickups and effects pedals founded 1976 ; 40 years ago 1976 founder mr. seymour w. duncan and ms. cathy carter duncan headquarters goleta california united states products pickups effects pedals number of employees 120 website seymourduncan.com external video oral history seymour duncan talks about his first experience making a pickup using an old turntable to wind it . interview date july 19 2002 namm national association of music merchants oral history library seymour duncan is an american company best known for manufacturing guitar and bass pickups . they also manufacture effects pedals which are designed and assembled in america . guitarist and luthier seymour w. duncan and cathy carter duncan founded the company in 1976 in santa barbara california . starting around 1983 84 seymour duncan pickups appeared in kramer guitars as standard equipment along with floyd rose locking vibratos and can now be found on instruments from fender guitars gibson guitars yamaha charvel esp guitars ibanez guitars mayones jackson guitars schecter dbz diamond framus washburn and others . contents 1 history 2 products 3 custom shop 4 references 5 external links history edit seymour duncan and cathy carter duncan seymour w. duncan became interested in guitars at a young age and after lending his guitar to a friend who accidentally broke the pickup seymour decided to re wind it using a record player turntable to hold the pickup in place and rotate it while spooling wire around the pickup bobbin . he was then inspired by how the tone of the guitar had changed for the better and started learning more about pickups from guitarist inventor les paul and later mentor and humbucker inventor seth lover . after having developed considerable skill working on guitars seymour gained employment at the fender soundhouse in london where he started working on the instruments and pickups of artists including jeff beck eric clapton jimi hendrix and jimmy page . after having moved to california he met and married cathy carter and decided to start a pickup rewinding service . with demand for his services growing seymour and cathy eventually expanded into offering their own stratocaster telecaster and humbucking pickups and within two decades had a full assortment of pickups for electric bass and acoustic guitar as well as electric guitar accessories . in 2012 seymour duncan was inducted into the vintage guitar magazine hall of fame for contributions to the music industry and he continues to create pickups in the seymour duncan factory in santa barbara california . products edit the company produces a large range of pickups for guitars in several formats including humbucker stratocaster telecaster and acoustic ; as well as effects pedals and bass pickups . some of their most popular guitar pickups include the 59 model the jb model and the pearly gates model . as of 2013 the company has moved into the 7 and 8 string guitar pickup market . they also produce a line of active pickups . in addition to their standard american made product line seymour duncan also produces a line of korean made duncan designed pickups intended for oem use on mid level guitars and basses . 1 the dirty deed distortion pedal released in late 2013 . seymour duncan produced a small line of guitar amplifiers during the 1980s and 1990s . 2 although the effort was short lived due to the company s lack of reputation as an amp builder seymour duncan amplifiers are well respected and sought after today . 3 over the years the seymour duncan company has invented numerous new products and holds a number of patents . several of these relate to designs which cancel or buck hum thus humbucking in single coil pickups . these designs include seymour duncan s p rails series of p 90 pick ups which provide both single coil and humbucker tone in a single hum cancelling pickup . seymour duncan also has artist signature products for slash dimebag darrell gus g joe bonamassa synyster gates jerry donahue yngwie malmsteen mick thomson warren demartini and steve harris . famous users include roy buchanan slash 4 eddie van halen arlen roth jeff beck thurston moore andy summers david gilmour billie joe armstrong billy gibbons scott ian steve harris synyster gates dave mustaine mark hoppus ehsan keramati tom delonge blues saraceno aaron aedy george lynch kurt cobain willie adler tommy kessler 5 wayne static zacky vengeance mick thomson johnny ramone paul rose disambiguation needed mark morton yngwie malmsteen warren demartini dimebag darrell dino cazares michael wilton marty friedman after the burial gus g nuno bettencourt monte pittman corey beaulieu john frusciante gary moore eric johnson steve morse 6 jimmy page joe bonamassa bradley nowell and roberto diana . 7 custom shop edit seymour duncan pickup types seymour duncan also maintains a custom shop that has been active since 1976 . the custom shop is currently managed by maricela juarez mj who has been winding pickups for over 30 years for countless famous musicians . it also features derek duncan who has spent years learning from his father seymour w. duncan . the custom shop is known for building pickups for musicians who need something special these include humbuckers single coils single coil sized humbuckers stacked pickups telecaster pickups gretsch pickups ripper and mustang bass pickups p 90 pickups and charlie christian reproductions as well as a full repair rewind service . during the 80s and 90s certain employees did special winding . the pickup code reflects this with an additional letter following the pickup code . 8 references edit duncan designed . seymour duncan . retrieved 2014 03 16 . 1 archived january 9 2010 at the wayback machine . paul marossy . the seymour duncan convertible 100 1x12 tube amp . diyguitarist.com . retrieved 2014 03 16 . 2 dead link the official web site of tommy kessler . tommykessler.com . retrieved 2014 03 16 . seymour duncan with jimi hendrix dominant music . dominantmusic.com.au . 2012 04 15 . retrieved 2014 03 16 . http www.seymourduncan.com artist roberto diana 126 150 . seymourduncan.com . retrieved 2014 03 16 . external links edit seymour duncan audio interview on guitar jam daily seymour duncan official website seymour duncan pickup reviews retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seymour duncan & oldid 735343270 categories guitar pickup manufacturershidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from march 2014articles needing additional references from march 2014all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with links needing disambiguationarticles with links needing disambiguation from august 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran aisitalianonederlands portugu ssuomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 20 august 2016 at 02 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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