Any idea what these pups are?

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Any idea what these pups are?

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I just came across these, according to the seller these should be from the 60's.
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While I do not know what these pickups are, I'd like to mention that they look like harmonicas.


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not sure. They look lie stuff that came out of the old import guitars. Again not sure though. If so, they may be cool, but probably not worth a ton of money. It will be interesting to see how long it takes Jcyphe to answer the question :lol: He seems to be able to find this shit pretty quick when he is around.
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they look like mini-WRHB's.
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I'm sure jcyphe would know what they are.
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Looks like there are some corners broken off the bases.
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They are tri-rails. They were fitted on guitars from the Dong Wang factory during 1972. Very collectable.
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I had a dream that said they were from a uber rare sex-machine Höfner.
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I have no clue what those are. The pickup has 12 pole pieces and for some reason a bass/treble slot design on the covers. No idea why it would have that as it clearly has 12 pole pieces.

If you find out what it is, let us know.
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Buy them and see how they sound.
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I just looked through my huge folder of guitar pictures and found a photo of an old Ovation Hollowbody with these style pickups. here's a picture from a website on Ovations.

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Apparently from the specs I'm reading these are humbuckers and were Dearmond designed, toaster style slots make sense now.
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Ooh, well done Jcyphe. Impressive detection skillz.
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Post by FitzG »

Sorta look like Wem/Watkins ones too
http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/semis.htm
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FitzG wrote:Sorta look like Wem/Watkins ones too
http://www.watkinsguitars.co.uk/semis.htm
They do and in that link it says the pickups were Schaller made, interesting.
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Thanks for the science!
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Damn....late to this thread. I actually have one of those ovations like Jcyphe posted but it doesn't have the original pickups. If you end up with those and want rid of them I would take them off your hands if they're a good price.
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