New Crap Tone Pickups by Farmer Ted's Guitars

A guitar player's quest for the perfect guitar tone is one of many paths or directions. Players and builders will try endless combinations of "tone woods", neck and fretboard materials, body shapes, sizes, construction. We obsess over which pickups to use; where to place them; piezo or magnetic pickup; one, two, three, more?

Forums, chat rooms, and discussion threads overflow with anecdotal opinions based on personal experience, or, in many cases, what is heard through the grapevine. The big corporate guitar companies rely on high priced marketing, sponsorship of professional musicians, and reputation. These giants of the industry shape our individual and perhaps, our collective ideal of what a guitar should look and sound like.

One refreshing ingredient in the forever-evolving offerings seen here in the Nation are instruments and parts that use materials and ideas that stray far from what mainstream guitars have become. 

I am inspired.

So, enough of that. 

This post is really meant to announce a new offering from Farmer Ted's Guitars. Through extensive research, laboratory tests, and many late nights of wrestling with the idea, I am ready.

Crap Tone Pickups...yes, that's right. Crap Tone.

I've dug down deep into my farm's hottest pile of decomposing matter to create a steaming heaping pile of tone the world has ever heard.

Why not try a pile in your next build? I guarantee...it will sound like crap!

Farmer Ted's Crap Tone Pickups are available in three or four string configurations, in either a single giant steaming heap, or for a humbucking experience, try the Double Deuce.

Get 'em while they're fresh!

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Comment by Uncle John on April 3, 2015 at 12:20pm

Congrats, Scott.  Like the look.   Love the name.

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 2, 2015 at 11:40am

darryl  is  right  ..  apples   bottom line . 

Comment by darryl kernaghan on April 2, 2015 at 11:36am

i just set 'em in a bunch of silicone near the bass side of the bridge,copper side to the wood

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 2, 2015 at 10:35am

Follow  up.   -   carrots  . 

Comment by Dan Sleep on April 2, 2015 at 9:50am

So what are these Crap Tones composted of?

Comment by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 2, 2015 at 8:52am

I belive it be the same.  Must be a slight change in translation.  I'd like the Crap Tone up top.

Comment by Scott aka Farmer Ted on April 2, 2015 at 8:20am

Eric, do you mean a double decker porcelain wrecker?

Comment by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 2, 2015 at 8:06am

Can I get an upper decker?

Comment by c# merle on April 2, 2015 at 7:59am

Comment by the anonymous pick on April 2, 2015 at 4:59am

;-)

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