64 Guild single coil teardown

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I tried many times to get more info Franz and Fransch, so far no success.
Fransch was in Woodside according to the pickup stamp and Franz in Astoria, according to Gilbert Diaz (see Hans book). Now both areas are in Queens and border to each other, so both are possibilities that it was one and the same company or two companies just in the same general neighborhood.

And yes, the Fransch Electric Company was most probably owned by Frank Schultz, the theory came from this great post of Ed Sharpe:

And that means Franz Schultz and Charles F. Schultz were most probably relatives.

I tried via friends who live in Sunnyside, just South of Astoria and Woodside, to get info from the libraries in Woodside and the central library in Jamaica/Queens but was not succesful in getting any info about any or both companies at all. Like they never existed... One would need old Queens phonebooks from Woodside and Astoria from lets say 1953-1958 timeframe.

The Franz and the Fransch look similar inside but still different to question the same factory.

Ralf
It's entirely possible that they were made in the same place. All these neighborhoods in Queens are right on top of each other, and even the people that live there aren't sure on how the borders are delineated. I've been doing projects in a lot of them for years, and damned if I know!
 

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My post got a hansing

Hans is hansing my post

My post was hansed

Hans is going to hans my post

The hansification of my post is complete

My post has been hansified

:unsure:
How come my post got more hansered than yours?
 

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Oh, if it's even remotely honsable, it will totally get hansed.

All my posts are suspect, if not totally hansable.
 

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This is all third party Hans-ing and doesn't have the quality of the real Hans Moust. The best you can say is it is "Hans-esque", similar to Taylor "pork roll".
 

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In some of those the actor is Hans so they make my point.

While I understand that conjugation can involve more, the definition that was drilled into me in Middle School and High School Spanish was basically fill in the blanks

I <>We <>
You <>You (plural) <>
He/she/it <>They <>

Using the more limited definition, the only thing that makes sense in the present tense is the third person singular because only Hans can Hans. Past tense, sure, but again Hans did the Hansing, not the object. Indeed I think grammatically "I Hansed" and "I was Hansed" are different roles of the verb "to Hans". But maybe the difference between roles is also "conjugation"?

I suppose my attempt at humor rested on a a way to teach languages in Middle School that was not universal enough for the humor to work. I am also a professional writer so I am not going to automatically defer to you unless you are going to beat me with "mine's bigger than yours" and pull out a royalty check.


:)

Conjugation is for copy editors. The talent ain’t got time for that. :cool:
 

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Bottom view. Note the solderlug on the baseplate. I'm going to call this a probable Guild assembled, if not designed pickup, due to that feature. (Waiting to be Hans-ed)
The coil for this pickup was produced by Todd Electronics, but the pickup was assembled by Guild. The very first versions were mounted on the same base plates that had been used for the Franz units and utilized the same white pickup cover until they got their own base plates that could be mounted in a bezel or in a pickguard; that last feature also made them height adjustable.

Here's a photo that shows the first version of the height adjustable style that had a white top and looked a bit like a DeArmond unit on the left. The slightly later version did get an all-chrome cover, which is pictured on the right.

Todd_SingleCoil_1.jpg


Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
 

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I was looking forward to getting a closer look at the numbers on the pickup. I find it interesting that Guild was getting coils from the same company that they bought transformers from.
Now we have to add Todds to the lexicon.
 

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Wow....so the pickups on my beloved '62 are really some kind of transitional item? Very interesting! Who knew?!?
 

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