1979
GALQ Vol.7#4 p.20   BRB2 p.62            
Tim Shaw                                                                                           

▪ This is just about as good a description of how pickups work as you are going to find. Shaw was a main man at Gibson, and relates several of the design considerations to specific guitars. If pickups are really this easy to understand why do they seem so mysterious? Includes 4 diagrams of how pickups are built.

This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.