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Bill Lawrence (born Willi Lorenz Stich; March 24, 1931 – November 2, 2013) was a pickup and guitar designer. [1] Lawrence was born in Wahn in Cologne, Germany and began his musical career in the 1950s as a jazz guitarist, performing under the name Billy Lorento. He died in southern California in 2013.
The standard N4 bears a Seymour Duncan SH1n (nicknamed the "'59 Model") at the neck position and a Bill Lawrence L500 at the bridge. Some confusion arises as Washburn has in the past installed pickups from both Bill Lawrence (doing business as Wilde Pickups) and Bill Lawrence USA (owned by Jzchak Wajcman). Bill Lawrence left the company Bill ...
It is outfitted with a Bill Lawrence and a Seymour Duncan pickup, and a licensed Floyd Rose-type tremolo. The N1 and N2 are production (budget) models of this line, factory-built in Korea, and feature standard bolt-on necks and lower-grade pickups and tremolo systems. The N3 (discontinued) was also produced in Korea and sported the Stephen's ...
Bill Lawrence (the life of the man, including a section on Wilde Pickups and the "Wilde Bill" persona) Bill Lawrence Pickups (a.k.a. the history of LSR -- heck, Fender is Fender whether owned by Leo or CBS or whoever)
The Samarium Cobalt Noiseless (SCN) series was a subsequent line of stacked electric guitar and bass pickups; these were designed by Bill Lawrence with the goal of further reducing noise while improving the "single coil" tone of the pickup [16] and were fine tuned by Fender. [17]
The Gibson L9-S Ripper is a model of electric bass guitar made by Gibson Guitar Corporation.. The Ripper was designed by Bill Lawrence, and manufactured from 1973 until 1983, the peak year being 1976.
To design the pickups, Gibson tapped Bill Lawrence, who had joined in 1972 and had already produced the L6-S. His design was reminiscent of the Fender Telecaster, contrasting the neck humbucker pickup with an angled single coil pickup in the bridge position, though the latter is often called a humbucker in popular reviews. [1]
The L500XL is the same pickup that was used by Dimebag Darrell of Pantera, Armstrong replaced the L500XL with a white Yamaha Pacifica humbucker at Woodstock '94. Armstrong later reinstalled the Bill Lawrence L500XL pickup before recording Insomniac, although he switched to a black Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB in 1995. He toured with this guitar from ...