Dearmond variant?

[Sweetfinger]

I've seen a lot of stuff, but I don't recall seeing these. They look like Dynasonics, but the Alnico poles are smaller. The bobbin is molded, but doesn't have the raised Dearmond script logo and the hookup to the coil is more crude than a dynasonic. The mounting of the bobbin assembly into the cover is also more crude than you would expect. The guitar is also a bit of a mystery. It has been refinished, but is almost certainly USA made. Early Holman-Woodell maybe? The pots are probably CTS coded: 34-0964 500K 137 6514. The knobs are Morgan Bros. Skokie Illlinois. The tuners are double-line Klusons, caps are Erie, and Switchcraft switch with extra leaves, one of which added a "lounge" cap to the neck pickup when only the neck pickup was selected.

[David Schwab]

They sure do look like a Dynasonic variant. Do you have the neck for that guitar?

[Mark Hammer]

Finally, I get it.

I always wondered why those pickups that seemed to have two sets of polepieces had a different spacing for one set than the other. And when I finally saw the underside, I realized it was because one of those "sets of polepieces" was nothing of the sort; it was simply a set of adjustment screws to raise and lower a set of real polepieces. I.E., it's a single coil pickup.

Where the hell is the smack-yourself-on-the-forehead emoticon?