Lollar Pickups is a Tacoma Washington-based company that creates handmade pickups for electric guitars, the bass, and steel guitars. The company was founded in 1995 by luthier Jason Lollar, a 1979 graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, and author of ''Basic Pickup Winding and Complete Guide to Making Your Own Pickup Winder'' was also a contributor to Bart Hopkin's ''Getting a Bigger Sound: Pickups and Microphones for Your Musical Instrument''.

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and James Williamson are known to use Lollar Pickups.

Products

''Lollar Pickups'' are made in the U.S. The company produces pickups including single coil, gold foil, P-90s, Charlie Christian, and humbuckers for

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, and many others.

References

External links

Jason Lollar Guitars Website

Stephanie Lollar Interview
at NAMM Oral History Collection (2021)
Jason Lollar Interview
at NAMM Oral History Collection (2021) Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States Companies based in Tacoma, Washington