Interesting video about Danelectro Lipstick pickup design

[wgen]

Hello, I'm opening this thread because I just found an interesting video about Danelectro Lipstick pickups, which, as far as I can remember, haven't been analysed yet on this spectacular forum, even if they were already been discussed.
The guy in the video actually just opens the lipstick pickup to see what's inside, but I thought that it could be of some interest for the many of you which have the knowledge and the experience to deduce something about the tonal response of the pickups of this kind.
Thank you very much in advance to everyone who might express some considerations about this design.


 

 

[antigua]

They've been talked about a little. They big thing about them is whether or not the casing is a brass or nickel silver. The GFS models and the originals were most likely brass, while the Seymour Duncan version might use nickel silver, as is claimed in some product listings, but not on their website. Since the case envelops the coil completely, the eddy current losses would be substantial, and so the particular conductivity of the metal, as well as the thickness, and what the base plate is made out of, would have a big impact on the treble response.

Given that they have a lower DC resistance and likely a lower inductance, it could be said that they're sort of like a single coil Filter'tron, both for the fact of high eddy current attenuation and low inductance. The very high resonant peak of a Filter'tron causes them to be very bright pickups, despite of the treble roll off, and I'm sure that's true of lipstick single coils as well.