New Products

NEW  UST series for Steel String Acoustic Guitars utiliizes a piezo polymer film cable sensor...(more)	NEW  RB series for Upright Bass and for Rock-A-Billy Bass ...(more)
NEW Player series endpin jack preamps are single channel with the option of volume and tone thumbwheel controls...(more)	RG-03 models   new jack assemblies have been added to the RG-03 series for Dobro style resonator instruments...(more)
NR-2 series for National style biscuit bridge reso's simply attaches to  saddle or to the top of the biscuit...(more)	Original glass bottlenecks. A great accessory - available in two weights and 3 sizes...(more)
Strap-Jacks Are Now Available From Schatten Design Keep Your Guitar From Falling Off The Strap...(more)

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Products Introduced At NAMM In Los Angeles - January 2010

New Under The Saddle Pickup System - The UST Series

New Endpin Jack Preamp Series - The Player Preamps

New Upright Bass Pickup Series - The RB Series for Bass and Rock-A-Billy Bass

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Blog

March 7/2010
     Still hard at work on new stuff. Continuing with the new archtop, new violin going out for beta testing next week......here it is a Sunday and after I go and get a coffee at Tim's, I think I'll get a bit further along with the archtop project. Interesting instruments those, not much happening acoustically and yet there are a lot of things to vibrate and make assorted sounds on them.....

Feb 14/2010
     I found this video that used to be up on our website about three or four years ago. It was obviously made when I was much younger and had a bit more hair...... the 'boss' speaks

Feb 10/2010
     I'm going to ask for some input and suggestions here: What are you guys looking for in a pickup? What's missing in pickups in your opinion, what should be done differently, and what should be there? You can drop me an email directly: email Les

     Oh yeah, for the good or the bad of it (and it's a good thing the windows are closed up here in the winter), I'm back to practicing the fiddle for at least a solid hour a day. I played pretty well most stringed instruments along the way, some acceptably, most not wonderfully. Taught banjo, mandolin, and fiddle - for about 10 years and ended my playing career playing not very good bass in a dance/swing/jazz band.
     I'm going to start teaching my granddaughter to play fiddle and I figured I had better try to re-learn where I was 20 years ago when I put it all down.
Les

Feb 3/2010
     Coming up next: I get a chance to get back to work on three new violin pickup designs that I've been playing with on and off over the last half a year. There's never enough time to get everything done when it's supposed to be, just too darn busy. To those that have been patiently waiting for that new solid body violin pickup....it is coming and it shouldn't be long. For the other two violin pickups, well you'll just have to see them when I'm finished - hopefully sometime later in the spring.
     Since I don't get holidays and I haven't had a break since before Christmas (what with new pickups and the NAMM show and all), I'm going to take off Friday through Monday....
Les

Feb 2/2010
     Well....we've just come off of a successful NAMM show in LA and managed to get out just in between the monsoons. Liked LA, glad to be home though. Ok, I just finished the design work, beta testing, and release of the RB Upright Bass Pickups and the UST series of under the saddle acoustic guitar pickups. Lot of work there, glad that's done. Those are some really fine new pickups.
     While we were at it, we introduced a whole line of Player series products with some really great low pricing - would you believe a nice new North American built (actually built right here in Canada) Endpin Jack Preamp - for less than Fifty Bucks?
Fifty Bucks! That's really good.
Les