Ting Ho Dung Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 After talking to Josh about so many things including pickups for a few hours the other day, he suggested I try his Mongoose model in my "Strat." I agreed to give it a shot. Then he called me back a few hours later and asked me color preference and wire preference. I said cream and black with cream on the screw side and 2 wire since I'm not going to split the coils. The pickup arrived just a few days later and this is what I found. So I was thinking, "Okay, no slugs. I guess you can mount it either way." Then I flipped it over. I called Josh back and asked about the pickup because it wasn't quite what I had ordered. I wasn't mad or disappointed, just ever so curious. He said after talking with me about what I wanted to do he custom wound this pickup for me and said it's just a prototype and to try it out that we can tweak it anyway I want to. I made a joke that it must be my signature pickup. He said yes it is and we need to come up with a name because "Thornbucker" is taken by Suhr and Pete Thorn. So I'm thinking about reptilian flavors of pickups. Of course there is always Crown Of Thorns (COT) because I was named after an Archangel. 8 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aknapp Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 DungBucker? (Maybe not 😆) TingBucker? Congrats on the Signature pickup! 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) Snakebucker FTW! The anti-Mongoose…. Edited January 6, 2022 by Jakeboy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topekatj Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 The Gravelin MAMBA 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Scepter Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 THE TING-SINGER 🤘 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialk Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Play jazz and call it the "Thorn Bird". 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrdaddy Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 @Ting Ho Dung Thorn Snake Nite Coils 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobB Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 The PoolPisser. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noisy neighbor Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Not a theologian by any stretch, but there's an archangel named Ting? Cool. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Ting Ho Dung said: After talking to Josh about so many things including pickups for a few hours the other day, he suggested I try his Mongoose model in my "Strat." I agreed to give it a shot. Then he called me back a few hours later and asked me color preference and wire preference. I said cream and black with cream on the screw side and 2 wire since I'm not going to split the coils. The pickup arrived just a few days later and this is what I found. So I was thinking, "Okay, no slugs. I guess you can mount it either way." Then I flipped it over. I called Josh back and asked about the pickup because it wasn't quite what I had ordered. I wasn't mad or disappointed, just ever so curious. He said after talking with me about what I wanted to do he custom wound this pickup for me and said it's just a prototype and to try it out that we can tweak it anyway I want to. I made a joke that it must be my signature pickup. He said yes it is and we need to come up with a name because "Thornbucker" is taken by Suhr and Pete Thorn. So I'm thinking about reptilian flavors of pickups. Of course there is always Crown Of Thorns (COT) because I was named after an Archangel. Congrats on the new pickup! Josh is the best! And whatever he wound for you, I’m sure you’re going to love it. I’ve got his Mongoose in my partscaster and a Mongoose variant in my Charvel. Both killer pickups. His single coils and hot PAF’s in my other guitars kill as well. As far as a name for your new signature pickup… I got nothin… Edited January 7, 2022 by Travis 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princeofdarkness56 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Well if they are clear and smooth and you are confident in your self esteem, maybe Tingerbell ? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stobro Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 If there's already a "Mongoose", then "Snake" would be a natural. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 16 hours ago, aknapp said: DungBucker? (Maybe not 😆) FTW! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 16 hours ago, Jakeboy said: Snakebucker FTW! The anti-Mongoose…. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 TingBucker and The PoolPisser are the best names so far. A marketing person can have fun persuading people to buy a PoolPisser. That might be why I like it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stike Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I guess Josh doesn't trust me to have a signature pickup all by myself. 😂 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) Here’s my signature pickup…. The TR-Custom with raw nickel cover. Just waiting to be installed… It’s going into a single pickup body with a push/pull for coil split Found the specs josh sent me when we were creating this pickup. From the man himself… “Around 6.9k +/- on the slug coil using 43awg coil wire, 5k on the screw coil using 42.5awg. ... hot PAF used as normal, good single coil split off the slug coil” Edited January 7, 2022 by Travis 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjamiam Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 +1 Dungbucker! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Snakehandler Neck and Snakehandler Bridge. I have nothing.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conorb Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 That’s really cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ua D Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Nice! my custom wind has my initials on it. A JD humbucker > a JB humbucker! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
django49 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 For Ting......A Walla Walla and a Bing Bang. Maybe you had to be there in the 50s...... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beezerboy Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) "The Ho"? beautiful piece of work Edited January 8, 2022 by beezerboy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 6 hours ago, django49 said: For Ting......A Walla Walla and a Bing Bang. Maybe you had to be there in the 50s...... Ooh… Eee… ooh, ah, ah… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Ting, I don't wanna piss in anyone's pool, ...er, on their parade... but I seem to recall having Josh name a p'up after me as well. I think he called it a Pudbucker. Seriously though, I seem to recall him having an earlier prototype with my initials in the ID code. HEL, Shane coded the Spitfire as a JVM-P Jim Voorhees Model- Prototype. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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