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The Li'l Nipper™ String Winder | The Ol' Reliable™ Capos | Pick Stuff™ | Vintage™ Thumbpicks
Hi-Rider™ Fingerpicks | Jazz & Studio Picks | Volume & Tone Cables | String Wizard™ | Other Accessories
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John Pearse® Patented Fine Wood ARMRESTS & New JUNIOR Size Armrests!
By placing your arm against the top of the guitar, you lose between 15% and 20% of the power and projection of the top of the guitar! And we really are talking as much about clarity and quality of sound as we are the volume! That wonderful sound when you strum the strings just before you close the case--that is the true sound of the "unimpeded top" of your guitar!
The John Pearse® Armrest gives your arm a more comfortable contour while helping to protect the top of the guitar from perspiration. But, most importantly, it allows you to play normally while it lifts your arm clear of the top of the guitar, giving you all the sound your guitar has to give! Go to our Armrest Page for more Details!
In the picture above, the shapes pictured are, from left to right: Rosewood Jumbo, Boxwood Right Hand Original, Ebony Slim Line, and Rosewood Left Hand Original. In the picture to the right are the BRAND NEW John Pearse® JUNIOR Armrests! Moving from left to right, they are pictured: Ebony Slim Line Jr., Rosewood Jr., Ebony Jr. and an Rosewood Right Hand Original so that you can compare the size.
We have scans available so that you can see which model would best accommodate your instrument. Either download the files from the Armrest Page, or contact us with your mailing address and we'll be glad to get a copy out to you.
New! John Pearse® Ebony "Slim Line" Junior Armrest....$ 29.95
New! John Pearse® Ebony Junior Armrest.........................$ 29.95
New! John Pearse® Rosewood Junior Armrest...................$ 29.95
New! John Pearse® "Slim Line" Ebony Armrest.................$ 34.95
New! John Pearse® "Jumbo" Rosewood Armrest................$ 34.95
John Pearse® Original Design Armrest.....................................$ 34.95
Original Design Armrest is available in 6 models: Rosewood, Ebony or Boxwood for Right Hand or Left Hand Guitar. Go to our Armrest Page for more Details!
Temporarily Unavailable
For use IN-THE-CASE of any wooden instrument!
Although originally developed for fretted stringed instruments, it has proven to be invaluable for the case humidification of all delicate wood instruments; players of everything from violins and violas to oboe, flute, clarinet and zither have all come to rely upon it for maintaining safe humidity levels for their instruments!
For more information, go to the K-Saire™ Page
With larger stringed instruments, use in conjunction with the John Pearse® Humidifiers listed below.
The John Pearse® K-Saire™ System.............$29.95
It's a Bridge Pin Puller!
It's a String Cutter!
It's a StringWinder!
Includes Adapter for Smaller Tuning Buttons! [Mandolin, Banjo, 12 String, Electric Guitar!]
It Reduces Repetitive Strain Injury!
It's Light! It's Compact!
It fits in the palm of your hand!
For more information, go to the Li'l Nipper™ Page
The John Pearse® Li'l Nipper™ .............$12.95
Have you ever put on a new set of strings only to have one of the ball-ends break off? Did you throw away the strings? You did? Well, not any more! With John's NEW STRING WIZARD™, you can fashion a new ball-end on the string in minutes!
Have you ever searched for the perfect string for your particular loop-end instrument, only to discover that it is only available in ball-end? Search no more! Just cut the ball-end off, and use the STRING WIZARD™ to spin a loop-end onto the string!
Want to make up your own plain mandolin, banjo, dulcimer or bouzouki strings? Nothing could be easier! Just buy bulk wire in your favorite gauges...and use the STRING WIZARD™ to spin your own custom strings in either ball- or loop-end...as you need them!
Tooled from Bell Brass, the John Pearse® STRING WIZARD™ is supplied with a package of brass ball-ends as well as an illustrated Owners Manual for it's use. Packages of approximately 200 brass ball-ends are also available for purchase.
The John Pearse® STRING WIZARD™ is also supplied with a velour pouch. For those who wish, we also have a beautiful soft black leather John Pearse® Accessory Pouch with John's Logo stamped in gold. This Accessory Pouch serves not only picks and capos and pedal steel bars, but it is just the right size for your new STRING WIZARD™.
John Pearse® STRING WIZARD™ .........................................$49.95
John Pearse® Black Garment Leather Accessory Pouch......................$10.00
Package approx. 200 Brass Ball-ends.............................$4.95
The NEW John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup
Our new full-spectrum transducer system is designed to accurately reproduce the sound of an acoustic stringed instrument while not changing it's acoustic nature! This John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup is appropriate for any instrument with a vibrating soundboard.
The John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup may be mounted permanently inside an instrument, on the underside of the soundboard, using the peel-off adhesive backing already on the Pickup--or temporarily mounted on the topside and removed after each use, using the special non-marring adhesive included.
Since the placement of the John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup determines the sound of the instrument, it is advisable to experiment with various locations in order to determine your instrument's "sweet-spot". This is particularly important should you wish to permanently mount the Pickup inside the instrument.
You can connect your John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup into your tuner when tuning in loud places too!
John Pearse® Acoustic Pickup.............................................$39.95
Additional Adhesive.........................................$2.50
One of the problems with onboard pickups is that the distance to the amplifier is often much longer then your arm! The easiest solution if our NEW JOHN PEARSE® CABLES!
Model JPV1
Volume Control...at your Fingertips
Model JPV1 is intended for players who are looking for a little more flexibility either in performance or at home. A one foot lead plugs into the guitar end-pin jack and a standard cord plugs into the box itself.
Model JPT2
Volume & Tone Control...at your Fingertips
Model JPT2 replaces the standard cord between the guitar and the amplifier! The one foot lead plugs into the guitar end-pin jack and the jack at the end of the 14 foot lead plugs into the amplifier. This model has Tone Control in addition to Volume Control! A variable 8Khz Low-Pass Filter does the job! The two knobs are shaped differently so that you can tell the difference BY FEEL when you reach for them!
The Cable is low moise shielded cable and the box is fabricated of Hi-Impact ABS Plastic for strength and durability!
A wonderful addition to any musician's gear box---John Pearse® Cables!
John Pearse® Cables - JPV1 [Volume Control] .............$24.95
John Pearse® Cables - JPT2[Volume & Tone Control] .............$29.95
John Pearse® Leather & Suede Guitar Straps
Our double-stitched, extra-width guitar straps are made for us by our good friends at Levy's Leather in Canada. Fully adjustable with no metal buckles to ding a finish and a snap-on/snap-off loop for electric leads. These beautiful and hard wearing straps are available in Black[with silver imprint] and Brown [with gold imprint]Saddle Leather.
We also have two NEW Honey Suede Straps available: one has the standard opening, identical to the brown and black straps listed above. The other new strap has a wider opening which will accomodate end-pin jacks.
You see small piece of leather which snaps on the end of our straps? Some people aren't aware what purpose it serves. There are the snap on/snap off loops for electric leads.
If you are using some sort of pickup on your guitar, you will have a cable from your guitar to an amplifier. Unsnap this extra piece and loop it AROUND your cable and then back through itself and snap it back on the strap. You give yourself an extra protective loop of cable before the insertion in the instrument. That way, if you should step on the cable, it will pull against the leather and that extra loop of cable before it pulls directly on wherever the cable attaches in your guitar.
John Pearse® Black Saddle Leather Guitar Strap.................$37.95
John Pearse® Brown Saddle Leather Guitar Strap.........................$37.95
John Pearse® Honey Suede Guitar Strap, Regular or Large Hole........$37.95
Made from a non-greasy, non-toxic, non-staining material, John Pearse® Pick Stuff helps you hold on to your flat picks! Packaged in a convenient plastic container, it can be carried easily in instrument cases or in pockets!
Just rub thumb or index finger across the surface and then rub the two fingers together until "dry"...and you will hold on to your picks more easily! Forget the cork covered picks, forget the funny shapes...just get the John Pearse® Pick Stuff!
John Pearse® Pick Stuff.............................................$1.95
John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bars
A totally new kind of tone bar. Carved from an ingot of highest quality 440 stainless steel, each bar is heat treated to 60 Rockwell hardness before being cryogenically frozen to -300 degrees to remove all construction stresses. Experience unbelieveable sustain!
Available in either the NEW "BIG DADDY"™, Pedal Steel or Hawaiian/Lap Steel configuration.
A friend of ours at the "Grand Old Opry" started using one of our bars on his pedal steel. All the other steel players were trying to figure out what it was that he had changed in his steel to so improve the sound...and he told them! It is the John Pearse® Big Daddy™!
John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar - "Big Daddy"™ Pedal Steel Guitar
Length: 3-1/4" Diameter: 1" Weight: 10.7 oz, 302g .....$49.00
John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar - Pedal Steel Guitar
Length: 3-1/4" Diameter: 7/8" Weight: 8.1oz, 228g .....$48.00
John Pearse® Thermo-Cryonic™ Tone Bar - Lap Steel/Hawaiian Guitar
Length: 2-7/8" Diameter: 3/4" Weight: 5.2 oz, 148g .....$46.00
John Pearse® Bronze Contour Slide
A bar with a flare! No, it's not a typo. Our new bell bronze guitar slide now has FLARE and FLAIR! If you look carefully at the hole we bore through the bar you will see that it gradually flares wider at one end, making it really comfortable for pickers with hefty pinkies. For Delta devotees with more diminutive digits, just wear the bar from the other end. Now, incomparable comfort as well as the sweetest, truest slide blues you've ever played!
Bell Bronze, from which this slide is made, is the hardest and most resonant form of bronze. Long respected because of its beauty and the sweetness of its resonance, it has been used through the centuries for making gongs, cymbals, and horns in addition to the bells with which it is most often associated.
John Pearse® Bronze Contour Slide for Bottleneck Guitar
Length: 2-9/16" Diameter: 1" Weight 2.6oz, 75g .....$24.95
John Pearse® Saddle Leather Hang-Ups
Our saddle leather Hang-Ups attach to the tuning pegs of instruments to allow the instrument to be hung from a peg or hook for display. As they are made out of fine saddle leather, they are non-reactive with any lacquers which might be used in a guitar finish!
John Pearse® Saddle Leather Hang-Ups
10-3/16" long, 1" wide at ends.........$5.95
Made from pre-war quality Viscoloid, these picks really do give you the sound of a tortoise-shell pick. The incredibly fast recovery time of these picks will both speed your solos and delight your ears as you hear highs you never thought your guitar had. All of our picks are white with easy to identify color imprinting to indicate gauge.We are so proud of our Flat Picks that if you send a self-asdressed stamped envelope we will send you a sample in your preferred weight!
Jazz Flat Picks
The classic teardrop shape, cut with a die from the 1920s.
JAZZ Thin [red]...........................$0.50 each
JAZZ Medium [black]..................$0.50 each
JAZZ Heavy [blue].......................$0.50 each
JAZZ XHeavy [gold]....................$0.50 each
Studio Flat Picks
Patented asymmetrical shape featuring both plain profiles of the Jazz Pick plus a third intermediate profile. The favorite pick of multi-style studio session players.
STUDIO Thin [red]......................$0.70 each
STUDIO Medium [black].............$0.70 each
STUDIO Heavy [blue]..................$0.70 each
STUDIO XHeavy [gold]...............$0.70 each
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High-Rider™ Fingerpicks
Super-light fingerpicks in 440 stainless steel. Unique shape holds them in place painlessly while preventing their falling off. Banjo players & guitar players love 'em. So do steel guitar players! Their stainless steel construction prevents their being pulled off by a magnetic pickup!
John Pearse® Vintage™ Thumbpicks
For years John carried his favorite thumbpick wherever he went. It was an old National, with so many miles on it that the logo had worn off completely and the celluloid was yellow and brittle. Everyone who ever tried it declared it was the best pick they ever used. It could take a tired old set of strings and make them sound young again.
Since no one was making such a pick anymore, John decided
to recreate it using an original cutting die from the 20s. The result is
a Vintage Thumbpick. In every way, it is the recreation of a classic; hand
formed to wrap around your thumb just right and, unlike modern thermo-plastic
thumbpicks, it just won't loosen up from the heat of your hand.
John Pearse® HI-RIDER™ Fingerpicks ......$1.25 each
John Pearse® Vintage™ Thumbpicks .......$1.00 each
Constructed of completely stable laboratory tubing, these "snake" humidifiers have a revolutionary new filling which holds more water--more safely! A must if you have central heating or live in an extremely dry area, they are best when used in conjuction with our NEW "K-SAIRE"™ Case Humidifying System! Available in two sizes,one for Guitar and larger instruments, and the other for Mandolin/Violin/Viola.
John Pearse® Humidifiers
Guitar 13" long, 1/2" diameter [tube]...................................$11.95
Mandolin/Violin/Viola ....................$7.95
An exciting and totally unique instrument support device that allows a stringed insturment to be suspended from the smallest of level areas. A boon for any musicians working in cramped surroundings where a normal instrument stand is just not practical, the D'ANGLE™ is so compact that it will fit easily inside a standard guitar case. Now you can D'ANGLE™ your instruments out of harm's way--and no headstock is required.
John Pearse® D'ANGLE™.... $ 19.95
John Pearse® OL' RELIABLE™ CAPO
Handmade traditional stirrup capo in solid bell bronze, with a leather pad. Models for Six String Guitar, 12 String Guitar, Classical Guitar and Banjo.
John Pearse® OL' RELIABLE™ CAPO.... $ 29.95
Hawaiian Nut Adapters..................$4.75
Shubb-Pearse Guitar Steel #1......$24.95
Shubb-Pearse Guitar Steel #2......$24.95
Shubb-Pearse Guitar Steel #3......$24.95
Shubb Basic Guitar Steel..............$21.95
Prices listed are Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price. Prices and specifications are subject to change without notice!
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