Lollar Pickups Blog

This article is third in a series of discussions about best selling Lollar pickups. This session will feature our best selling Lollar P-90 style pickups.

Lollar P-90 Pickups:

The Lollar P-90 is really the “flagship” Lollar pickup, and is often considered “the” pickup that began to draw customers’ attention to Lollar pickups.

Lollar P90 soapbar sets are a strong favorite.

Our best selling P-90 is the standard wind soapbar style pickup. In fact, we sell over twice as many of this particular model of P-90 than all of our other p-90 pickups combined. That includes all of the other soapbar and dogear models that make up our entire list of P-90 stock models.

Many of the builders we work with install the Lollar standard wind P-90 soapbar sets. Some of these builders include Collings, Godin, Heritage, and National Resophonic.

In fact, as an historical tidbit, it was National Resophonic that was the first established guitar builder that purchased a small run of Lollar P-90 soapbar pickups for use in one of their electric instruments. Since that original purchase in 2002, the Lollar P-90 soapbar has continued to be original equipment on the National Resophonic “Resoelectric” guitar.

For more specific information on our standard P-90 follow this link to Lollar P-90 pickups. And, as we’ve mentioned before, there is really no “wrong” answer when making your individual pickup choice. Each model of Lollar pickups has its own unique advantages. Our best advice is to decide what you’d like to accomplish for the specific project or instrument you are working on, and then base your decision on what’s right for you.

Next week’s discussion about best selling Lollar pickups will focus on best selling Lollar humbuckers.

This is the second blog in a series of discussions about best selling Lollar pickups.  Today we’ll cover our best selling Lollar tele pickups.

Lollar Tele Pickups:

A discussion of Lollar tele style pickups is a bit more accurate if we talk about favorite combinations of necks and bridges.  The reason for this is because our customers often like to “mix and match” our different tele style pickups.

The Lollar Special T Series set is one of our most popular tele style sets.

Our best selling stock Lollar tele bridge is the Lollar Special T Series® bridge. We sell more of these bridges than any of our others.  There are 2 favorite combinations that include this choice for the bridge position.

The first combination is the Lollar Special T Series bridge plus Lollar Special T Series neck.  In other words, simply a Lollar Special T Series set.  A second popular combination is the Lollar Special T Series bridge plus the Lollar Vintage T Series® neck.  

It is generally a “tie” when it comes to which of these stock combinations is more popular.  Some months we sell more straight Lollar Special T Series sets, and some months we sell more combination sets consisting of the Lollar Special T bridge plus the Lollar Vintage T neck. 

In our previous blog about best selling Lollar strat style pickups, we mentioned the popularity of the Lollar “Dirty Blonde” strat set which is a combination set consisting of the Lollar Special S bridge and Lollar Blonde neck and middle.  It is interesting to point out that there is a similar pattern with teles.  The combination tele style set made up of the Lollar Special T bridge plus Lollar Vintage T neck is also popular for one of the same reasons that make the Dirty Blonde set so popular: That is, Nash Guitars.

This combination set consists of the Lollar Special T Series bridge and the Lollar Vintage T Series neck. It is another very popular choice.

If you wanted to order what you hear in a Nash tele style guitar equipped with Lollars, you would want to order the Lollar Special T Series bridge and the Lollar Vintage T Series neck. For more detail on this Nash style combination for tele, take a look at the previous posting about Lollar Pickups and Nash Guitars.

One last question that is worth addressing: What is the most popular choice to go along with the Lollar Charlie Christian neck for telecaster?  Answer (which you may have already guessed): The Lollar Special T Series bridge. 

And again a reminder, these are current purchasing trends.  Ultimately there is no “wrong” answer.  It still all boils down to your personal preference and what tone you are seeking for the particular project or instrument.  As you know, we sell a variety of Lollar tele style pickups.  Each of them has its own unique characteristics and advantages.  For more details and sound clips, follow this link to read more specific information about each of the various Lollar tele style pickups.

Next week we will look at best selling Lollar P-90 style pickups.

Customers frequently ask us what our best-selling stock Lollar pickups are. In fact, this is one of our most frequently asked questions. Usually something to the effect of, “So what seems to be the most popular?” And, “What do most players order?”

So we thought it made sense to share that with you. For the next few blog postings we will talk a little about some of our top selling pickups. We will start with the Lollar strat style pickups.

Lollar Strat Pickups:

Lollar Blackface sets are a best selling item

The Lollar Vintage Blackface® pickups for strat are our most popular stock strat pickup. Many players find the Blackface set to be one of our most versatile. Clear and articulate when played clean, while at the same time offering a warmth and punchyness that make the Lollar Blackface set a favorite.

We call this combination the Lollar "Dirty Blonde" strat style set. It is also very popular.

Another top selling Lollar stock strat set is a combination set we refer to as our “Dirty Blonde” set. The Lollar Dirty Blonde strat set is a mixture of Lollar Vintage Blonde® strat pickups in the neck and the middle positions, and the Lollar Special S Series® strat pickup in the bridge position. This combination gives many players the “best of both worlds.” The Lollar Vintage Blonde® neck and middle offer a bit more sparkle, chime, and top end bloom. At the same time, the slightly higher output Lollar Special S Series® bridge is just a bit darker and rounder that our other strat style bridges. In most cases this helps lessen that typical strat “ice pick” bridge sound.

The Lollar Dirty Blonde strat set is interesting for yet another reason: Nash Guitars. Basically, if you wanted to order what you hear in a Nash strat, you would want to order a Lollar Dirty Blonde strat set. For more detail on the Nash strat set, take a look at this previous Lollar Blog posting about Lollar pickups and Nash guitars.

One last point to make about best-selling Lollar strat pickups: flat pole versus staggered pole pieces. When customers ask for our recommendation we strongly recommend flat pole pieces. For more detail on why we recommend the flat poles, follow this link to read an article about flat-pole versus staggered-pole pickups. Generally speaking, about 10% of the strats we sell are staggered pole sets. In other words, about 90% of the time our customers prefer flat pole strat pickups. Next week we’ll talk about best selling Lollar Tele style pickups.