They have the advantage of that low profile - making it possible to install them on all sorts of guitars like National Resonators and Dobros as well as most electrics. Great sounding and low noise with good screening. The guitar itself was an early 1964 model (later in '64 the headstock went from 6-in-a-row to a 4/2 layout). This is one of the third, and most desirable, type, from a Teisco SS-4L imported in to the UK by Rose-Morris and re-branded "Top Twenty" and given the model name "Orbit 4". The coil around the alnico magnet sits off to one side, the six (visible) srews sit on the other - the end result is a single coil with a "sensing area" more akin to a humbucker and in a very low-profile pickup - similar in concept to Epiphone's "New Yorker". These use a strip of magnetized rubber.Ī third type, with small pole piece screws along the edge (the type used by Ry Cooder) are considered by many to be the best sounding of the three with a slightly higher output, roughly 5.6k ohms, and alnico magnets in the pole pieces. One has the large screw pole pieces running along the center with a chrome surround.Īnother type has smaller pole piece screws and a chrome surround with four fixing screws somewhat like a Rickenbacker toaster or a DeArmond. Jason Lollar, the renowned pickup designer, and considered by many to be a noted authority on nearly everything related to electric pickups (he wrote "Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder" and contributed to Bart Hopkin's book "Getting A Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument") covered them as follows. Teisco Del Ray early 1964 Gold Foil Guitar Pickup ex SS-4L (like DeArmond) #3 of 4.
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