Charlie Christian Pickup Wiring Diagram

For more than three decades jason lollar has designed and built some of the most sought after pickups for electric guitar bass and steel guitar.
Charlie christian pickup wiring diagram. Installing a charlie christian for tele neck pickup body mount routing diagram pickguard mount routing diagram. A famous thing connected to christian is the charlie christian s guitar pickup. Also works with the p bass pickups retrovibe bass and mandocaster. It s easy to find charlie christian s music on youtube grooveshark and similar sites.
The charlie christian pickup was also used by t bone walker barney kessel. I found that for my applications the lollar charlie christian neck pickup is great but pretty boomy on my princeton. The es 150 has a single coil pickup in neck position that is known as the charlie christian pickup. The charlie christian pickup or simply cc is one of the most important pickups ever to have been designed.
Lollar s charlie christian style pickups are designed to give players a palate of rich deep tones along with the singing sustain and sweet attack made famous by this jazz guitar legend. It s a really old school construction with a big ceramic magnet and a blade pole piece. Before fralin pickups i was doing everything i could to breathe life into my bass. Can t thank you guys enough honestly.
Less hum with both selected might happen if you have one of the pickup wired in reverse phase to the other. See our full line of charlie christian pickups below. It just wasn t working but these pickups did the trick. For example a jazz guitar with one of our tab mounted or std deluxe charlie christian pickups.
You could perhaps try drawing out your wiring on a piece of paper while referring only to the guitar and the connections as you have wired them without looking at any manufacturers guide diagram. Installing a blade style tele bridge pickup installation instructions. Quiet responsive and much more everything you need in a pickup. The original charlie christian pickup is almost unobtainable but there s a company in the uk that makes exact replicas of these pickups.
When launched in 1936 on gibson s es 150 their first commercially successful electrified guitar and arguably the first successful electrified guitar worldwide the. Shown at right is a simple wiring diagram to be used on single pickup instrument. It was the pickup that started it all. Bright sensitive articulate and very responsive best describes our new pickup.