Identify your L-500 with this simple form!!!

Fill out this simple form for a fast identification of your Bill Lawrence L-500 pickups approximate date and manufacturer.

1) Is your pickup chrome covered: (choosing yes or no will effect the options below)

Chrome Covered? Picture Yes No

2) Check all that apply: (Do not move on until all applicable options available are checked)

Imprint: Picture
Curved Blades: Picture 1 Picture 2
Flat Thin Blades: Picture
Flat Wide Blades: Picture
Epoxy Filled (filled to the top): Picture
stamp/print: Picture
screws: Picture

3) The most likely Manufacturer is :

Bill Lawrence (born Willi Lorenz Stich)
OR

Jzchak 'EZ' Wajcman (dba "Bill Lawrence Products" and "Bill Lawrence Guitar Pickups") at billlawrenceusa.com

4) Likely approximate date period :

between 1979 and 1983 at Lawrence Sound Research. Without a label or further investigation, this pickup could be a pre-1981 L-500L or L-500R or 1981 L-500L, L-500XL, L-500R, L-510L or L-510R, or post-1981 pre-1983 L-500L, L-500XL, or L-500R.
~1983 at Lawrence Sound Research (possibly last month of 1982)
between 1983 and 1984 at Lawrence Sound Research
OR between 1984 and ~1990 by Jzchak 'EZ' Wajcman. At this time, these pickups are the most difficult to identify.
between 1986 and 1989 at OBL or 1989 and 2006 (billlawrence.com)
between ~1990 and ~2002
after ~2002
after ~2006 at billlawrence.com

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