Gold Foil Dogear
Item #: 10-701-7
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Thanks to our Gold Foil’s acoustic transparency, it’s one of the most versatile guitar pickups we offer. If you play softly, the fundamental tones are round and full and come to the forefront. Increase your pick attack and you add more high harmonic overtones. Well suited for a variety of playing styles as well as guitars ranging from "Coodercasters" to jazz boxes. Read more in our blog post, Gold Foil Pickups: Then & Now.
Avg. DC: Neck 6.2K, Middle 6.8K, Bridge 7.2K (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Potentiometers: 250k
Recommended Capacitor: 0.047μF
Please note: This version of our Gold Foil mounts similarly to a Dogear P-90. See this diagram for outside dimensions of the ring.
You can also purchase a Shim Pack for Dogear pickups, which contains the six most commonly used shims. Shims can be used individually, or stacked for optimal height.
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Use the sizing chart below to determine the correct size Dogear to order.
For additional information please read: Important Notes On Dogear Sizing and Casino/Wildkat Models.
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I Never Thought...
James
Location: Colorado
Date: January 12, 2020
...that Lollar would craft a gold foil pickup. Then they did. In a Casino, the dogear route works beautifully with a short shim. It absolutely nails the Grant Green sound of 1960-1962. Overdriven, it delivers a PAF-quality tonality that loses NOTHING in the way of clarity no matter how hard you push it. In the middle position, I roll the bridge tone to just shy of 0, crank the neck tone, and get a kind of soaring, tight-low end clean that seems to generate its own reverb-space. Very hard to describe. I've tried to achieve this experience with other pickups and it's just never worked. This is truly one-of-a-kind.
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Soundfiles above played by Jeff Senn with a '73 Princeton Reverb.
Soundfiles above played by Jeff Senn with a '53 5C3 Wide Panel Deluxe.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it matter which way I orient the pickup when I install it?
Our Gold Foils use a large oval magnet; they are not directional. The pole piece screws offer very slight individual adjustment, but they are largely cosmetic.
What values of potentiometers and capacitors do you recommend for Gold Foil pickups?
Gold Foils (like other bright single coil pickups) work well with 250k pots (both volume and tone) and .047μF caps—and these are the values we typically recommend. That said, there are no hard and fast rules. You can read more about how different pot and cap values affect tone in this two-part blog post: Part I - Pots, Part II - Caps.
Do you offer a third wire on Gold Foils—like you do on your Tele neck pickups—for series/parallel or in/out of phase switching?
We can do a jacketed two-conductor wire with Gold Foils that will allow you to take advantage of in/out of phase or series/parallel wiring for an upcharge of $10 per pickup.
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