M-3 California models

[Veenture]

I am actually working on modifying the Moseley design to house a single steel blade as opposed to six screw pole-pieces. This would probably complimnet a lot of those Nokie-style bends...

Hey that's a great thought! It made me realize that bending your strings on a single steel blade, you don't move 'em away from the magnetic field!! Danny Gotton had those single steel blade pickups on his yellow Tele also...

[oipunkguy]

cool idea Raygun.

yeah paul, that's the upside to a blade, the downside is you cannot adjust individual screws for fine tuning the output of your pickup. so to each his own i guess. an interesting note about modern Carvin pickups is many of the designs they have an extra screw between each string exactly for the reason of string binds. kinda cool idea I think, even though it's a little off putting to see a crap load of screws on one pickup, lol. this means a humbucker would have 22 screws!

[raygun85]

You could use black screws so they weren't so noticable. As for the blade, I can't imagine that not having the extra height adjustment would be any worse than smooth-top pickups like the Mark V's. Hmmm....a blade in a smooth-top pickup....

[Veenture]

Hmmm....a blade in a smooth-top pickup....

Raygun...you just can't be beat! -another great idea

[oipunkguy]

lol hey ray, i was thinking the same thing. some of the later mosrite humbuckers also had a small holes drilled out where the pole piece would go, but none is there. I know there's some pics on the forum somewhere of them. I believe these first appeared on bluebenders and brass rail models, but Adam would know better then I.

[sleeperNY]

Gretsch has had that for years.

Jim

[raygun85]

But do they sound like Mosrites?

[oipunkguy]

i think not.

[raygun85]

[MWaldorf]

Wow - are those pickups single or humbuckers? Either way, the pole-less covers somehow remind me of the obelisk from 2001 A Space Odyssey: