Bill Lawrence guitar pickup FT-145 - 5 year warranty. Prebalanced pickup for acoustic flat top guitar. Balanced for bronze wound strings. Powerful performance both on stage and in the studio. Natural acoustic sound at high volume level without feedback. Instant mounting. Fully shielded. Complete with Lawrence solderless connector and 12 foot custom designed low loss cable. The silencer - Prebalanced with a beautiful black cover.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup A-345C - 5 year warranty. Prebalanced pickup for acoustic flat top guitar. Balanced for bronze wound strings. Powerful performance both on stage and in the studio. Natural acoustic sound at high volume level without feedback. Instant mounting. Fully shielded. Complete with Lawrence solderless connector and 12 foot custom designed low loss cable. Adjustable pole pieces and built in miniature volume control.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup A300 - 5 year warranty. Prebalanced pickup for acoustic flat top guitar. Balanced for bronze wound strings. Powerful performance both on stage and in the studio. Natural acoustic sound at high volume level without feedback. Instant mounting. Fully shielded. Complete with Lawrence solderless connector and 12 foot custom designed low loss cable. Sturdy stainless steel cover will also fit in a smaller sound hole guitar.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup A245C - Prebalanced pickup for acoustic flat top guitar. Balanced for bronze wound strings. Powerful performance both on stage and in the studio. Natural acoustic sound at high volume level without feedback. Instant mounting. Fully shielded. Complete with Lawrence solderless connector and 12 foot custom designed low loss cable. Built in volume control.
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Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S1 strat - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S1 strat pickup single coil. 5 year warranty. Black label Vintage single coil Pole pieces. S1 Neck position. Find out why everyone is talking about these Bill Lawrence pickups!
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S2 strat - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S2 strat single coil pickup. 5 year warranty. Black label Vintage single coil Pole pieces. Guitar pickup S2 Mid position.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S3 strat - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup S3 strat single coil pickup. 5 year warranty. Black label Vintage single coil Pole pieces. Guitar pickup S3 Bridge position.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup T2 tele - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup T2 tele single coil pickup. 5 year warranty. Black label Vintage single coil Pole pieces. Guitar pickup T2 Bridge position.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup T1 tele - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup T1 tele single coil pickup. 5 year warranty. Black label Vintage single coil Pole pieces. Guitar pickup T1 Neck position.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup L-500XL - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup L-500XL. 5 year warranty. Humbucker Blade style Black - Hot lead guitar pickup. Yes, this is the one. The dime and many who rocked and will continue to rock with.
Bill Lawrence guitar pickup L-500RB - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup L-500RB. 5 year warranty. Humbucker Blade style Black - Rhythm guitar pickup.
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Lawrence guitar pickup L-250b - Bill Lawrence guitar pickup L-250b. Bill
Lawrence guitar pickup L-250b. 5 year warranty. Strat, humbucker Blade style
Black guitar pickup.
L500XL Made by Jzchak Wajcman DBA *Bill Lawrence USA
Jzchak Wajcman, the Original founder of the 1965 Lawrence Electro-sound Company and the owner of *Bill Lawrence guitar Pickups co. made the L500 Pickup in this ORIGINAL DIMEBAG DARREL DEAN FROM HELL GUITAR.
Dimebag Darrel quote from Guitar wolrd magazine:
It was a typical Friday evening when a young musician walked into my Club “Castel Bar” to visit Nathan Grossman, his friend and the club’s manager. During the lengthy conversation that followed, he told me about a traumatic experience in Italy. Just hours before a show he was involved in auto accident which damaged one of his guitar pickups. He had managed to fix the pickup, make it to the show on time … and at the end received a standing ovation.
What was a “guitar pickup?” I had no idea until he retrieved a Fender Strat from his car and demonstrated in detail to me the “Charlie Christian Sound” every guitarist dreams of achieving. I remembered listening to Charlie Christian on Benny Goodman's recordings from the 40's. Charlie Christian influenced every jazz guitar player of his period and those that followed.
the story sparked in me an idea. If all guitarists are really looking for the “Charlie Christian Sound,” why not create a guitar pickup replacement business that delivers it?
From that moment on, the first replacement guitar pickup business in the world was born. We talked about it throughout the night. The next morning—a Saturday—we visited a children's’ toy store on the Sonnen Strasse to buy a small motor from a child’s train. It would become our coil winder. We made a bobbin out of a green plastic ruler and we located some magnets and magnet wire. For the rest of the weekend we worked to build a prototype.
Would it be accepted?
By Monday morning the pickup we created was ready and installed in a Fender guitar. I thought it was performing beautifully, but I needed some other expert opinions before launching a business. That same day we drove to Erlangen and Nuremberg and demonstrated the new product to four different guitar manufacturers, like Hoyer, Hopf, Hoefner and Framus. They were very impressed!
A week later I hopped on an airplane for my first trip to American soil. From the airport I went straight to Brooklyn and found myself standing in front of the old Gretsch building. Placing the call from a public phone, I asked in my broken English for Mr. Fred Gretsch. I explained to him that I was a young man who had just arrived in America from Germany. I had come for the sole purpose of gaining his evaluation of a hand made sample of a guitar pickup I had with me. I told him I believed it was the best Guitar Pickup in the world.
Mr. Fred Grestch responded warmly, and invited me in to see him. He handed my sample pickup to his guitar tech to install in a guitar. They could not believe the sound it produced. He became all excited and said to me, “Man, you have a piece of gold in your hands.” Then he phoned Guild guitars in Newark, New Jersey and made an appointment for me to demonstrate my pickup to them. Again, it was the same response. Four days later I returned back to Germany, rented a place on Reifeisen Platz, in Munich and started a company.
A photo I took In my *Bill Lawrence office 1965
All this transpired just 11 years after Leo Fender and his business partner, Don Randall, created the Stratocaster — the most commercially successful and copied electric guitar design in history. Leo Fender crafted the original Stratocaster to out perform all other electric guitars. In 1954, it was “a guitar for tomorrow.” Astonishingly, after 50 years, it still is.
What should the company be called? It needed a name.
The musician who had walked into my club, was performing under the name Billy Lorento, but actually Fred Wilfer owned that name the owner of Framus Guitar Company in Nuremberg.
After going over a list of possibilities, we decided to convert the Italian sounding name “Billy Lorento” into the English name “*Bill Lawrence” And that was the birthday of “*Bill Lawrence Pickups.” I designed the Logo and the catalog and worked days and nights to market the new "*Bill Lawrence products"
The first Bill Lawrence Pickup made 1965
Bill Lawrence catalog cover, printed 1965 (Inhaber j.Wajcman=Owner j.Wajcman)
In 1966 I purchased two airline tickets. We went to the united states. We felt it is time to introduce the *Bill Lawrence pickups in the US.
The *Bill Lawrence reputation
Over the past 39 years, tens of thousands of guitarists have replaced their original pickups with *Bill Lawrence Pickups to improve the quality sound of their guitars. Over the years I have seen guitarist spend hundreds of dollars on replacement pickups and still not fix their real problem. You see, a pickup can only amplify the real sound a guitar produces.
If there is no sound quality in your body, the best pickup will not help. It’s just a waste of money. It is my belief that professional musicians need an affordable instrument to go on stage with and perform. We install our pickups in "SwampKaster" guitars manufactured in the same traditional guitar shapes using the best materials and craftsmanship and show how *Bill Lawrence Pickups sound the best.
All original traditional *Bill Lawrence Pickups are made in California, USA. Each pickup is checked for top quality. Our SwampKaster guitars are made of hand-selected, high quality Swamp Ash wood from the deep southern swamps of Louisiana. This is the same wood many 50's Fenders were made of. It is easily distinguishable from Northern Ash by its weight and sound. This is a very musical wood offering a nice balance of brightness and warmth with lots of “pop.”
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