Technically, there’s no such thing as a single-recipe ‘gold foil’ pickup; the style is inspired by various pawnshop-prize brands such as Teisco, Guyatone, Harmony and Kay. The pickup itself ...

embedded in cheap guitars from Harmony and Teisco. Secondly, they've got some gold-looking foil on them. This is purely cosmetic, it seems; according to the pickup gods at Lollar, the foil does ...

There is some debate about which Gold Foil came first – the DeArmond or the Teisco. It has been claimed that Gold Foils appeared on Teisco guitars as early as 1954, but we haven’t been able to ...

Yes, the Fender Gold Foil pickups pull focus, outbreaks of gold fever at the local ... pick out at a US department store in the early 1960s, guitars from Harmony and Teisco. These electrics would help ...

While traditional gold foil pickups feature gold foil, it's purely cosmetic and not the feature that defines their sonic character. DeArmond and Teisco were the two frontrunners to showcase them in ...