Lipstick Pickups

The lipstick pickup is a type of single coil pickup. The name is derived due to the pickups being originally manufactured using lipstick tubes. The electronics of the pickups are incased in a chrome metal tube and were first designed by Danelectro. They have a sound which can be describes as ‘jangly’ and are often used in ‘Surf’ and ‘Rockabilly’ music.