What's this pickup?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:26 am

Watching an guitar on the ebay (know I shouldn't) but anyway it's got this installed in the bridge. Whatisit?

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:41 am

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... it's a humbucker.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:50 am

Oh no you didn't.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:10 am

what guitar is it in? something 70s - 80s japanese? ibanez and greco had some pickups like that. some of the univox/matsumoku pickups mounted like that.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:27 am

Sorry, I should have said. This pickup is completely alien to the guitar it's in. It is a cuckoo in the nest.

The guitar is from the early 70s, but I don't want to say what it is. It's cheap at the moment!

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:05 pm

My old Ibanez AR100's pickups (end ofthe 70s/beginning of the 80s) had that sort of three-screw mounting; it's certainly unusual.

Whether that says anything about the quality of the pickup, I wouldn't know. FWIW, mine were V2s and they were very nice...very beefy and hot. The screw polepieces on both coils in that photo is different from them, though.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 6:12 pm

Looks vaguely like a Dimarzio Super 2 or maybe something by Schaller

Dimarzio:

Schaller:

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 7:51 pm

Definitely a humbucker Tim. YeeeeeERP that's a humbucker.

I hope this post has been useful.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:43 pm

Ho ho.

On reflection, I decided against getting this. Might regret it, but I've got a nice Hagstrom Swede already. Went for Â£280, which is a bargain.