Description
The L-500XL is the pickup that put a razor edge under two of metal and rock’s most recognizable guitars: the original Washburn Dimebag Darrell Dean from Hell and Nuno Bettencourt’s early N4s. Rather than round pole pieces, it uses twin steel blades under each coil, giving you tighter string-to-string balance and a more focused, cutting output whether you drop it in the bridge or the neck.
This isn’t a modern reissue chasing an old formula — it’s built by Jzchak Wajcman, the man behind the original 1965 Lawrence Electrosound Guitar Pickup Company, using the same tooling that produced the very first L-500’s. Every unit still carries the “*Bill Lawrence USA” stamp on the back of the plastic housing, the mark that separates genuine Wajcman-made pickups from the many things sold under the Bill Lawrence name over the years. These are the same L-500’s that Stewart-MacDonald carried for close to two decades, made in California and given final assembly and setup in San Diego.
- Twin-blade humbucker design for even response across all strings
- Hot output suited to both neck and bridge positions
- Zebra bobbin finish
- 4-conductor wiring for series/parallel, split-coil, or phase-switching options
- Made in the USA on original vintage tooling
If you want the actual pickup behind the legend rather than a tribute to it, this is it.
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