Lipstick Pickup

Lipstick Pickup

A lipstick guitar pickup is a form of single-coil magnetic guitar pickup having its electronics totally encased in a chrome-plated metal tube.

The lipstick-tube pickup was first introduced by Danelectro on their line of electric guitars. The original lipstick-tube pickups were, in fact, manufactured using surplus lipstick tubes, and were featured on Danelectro, Danelectro's Coral series, and guitars that were later marketed through Sears, Roebuck and Company department stores under the name Silvertone.

These pickups have been featured most recently on Danelectro's reissued guitars in the 1990s and 2000s. The current production pickups are not made using surplus lipstick tubes, but rather using tubes machined especially for guitar pickups.