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It's quite a bit before my time, so maybe I'm missing something, but I do find it kind of weird that Dimarzio (according to Dimarzio, to be fair!) seemed to single-handedly create the replacement pickup industry, and yet currently (and for quite some time... since I started playing in around 2000 anyway) seems to be the less common of the "big two" passive manufacturers. Certainly when you consider that for most other electric guitar stuff, the "first" was usually the classic that everyone else tried to emulate.
To be fair to the Dimarzio trend in the 70's - I recall most pick-ups going in Jap copies more than Gibson Guitars - And certainly if they went in Gibson Guitars it was only models of the day - You do see some used 70's LP's with the mini toggle switch Dual Sound conversion but not that many
I think it was@ICBM that told me/us all on another FB thread, that DiMarzio own the IPR to PAF - It was never a licenced name that Gibson registered - Something I did not know at the time
Regarding Seymour Duncan and indeed DiMarzio - It was a dual policy - Sell direct to the builders and sell the pick-ups to the dealers/workshops for after sale/conversions
I don't know the sales figures, indeed if there are any, but would imagine that DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan are by a long way the 2 largest companies in that sector - I know we now have many other smaller boutique companies in the market place - I think there is a similarity with Boss pedals and S Duncan + DiMarzio - All 3 have been sold to many great players across the world, both in the past and today - But maybe today some buyers/players now perceive them to be a 'Ford Mondeo' so somewhat bland/par for the course, as they gravitate towards boutique
The JB began as something that Seymour wound for one of Mr. Beck's old Gibsons after an unscrupulous American guitar tech stole its original pickups. (The sanded back to Natural one rather than the oxblood one.)
Shortly after they stopped their dealers from shipping across territories, I don't think I had another new set after that.
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I'm set on getting a Norton. But hardly anyone seems to have them in stock and definitely not in the right colour. Loads of Air Nortons, but very few (earth?) Nortons.