My local shop has one of these in for $499 (only IIRC it had black pickguards)....pretty good shape, all electronics work etc.
I played it and fell in love. Mostly with the pickups, especially the neck.
First of all, how good of a deal is this? The real value of these seems to be hard to gather, anyone follow them on ebay long term to know its worth?
Secondly is it possible to install these pickups second hand in normal humbucker routes? I'm seriously considering getting one of those old valco buckers for the neck position of my Ovation Tornado now that I've played one.
Nick wrote:My local shop has one of these in for $499 (only IIRC it had black pickguards)....pretty good shape, all electronics work etc.
I played it and fell in love. Mostly with the pickups, especially the neck.
First of all, how good of a deal is this? The real value of these seems to be hard to gather, anyone follow them on ebay long term to know its worth?
Secondly is it possible to install these pickups second hand in normal humbucker routes? I'm seriously considering getting one of those old valco buckers for the neck position of my Ovation Tornado now that I've played one.
Eastwood uses more conventional styled pickups in their Airline reissues though, even if they're wired the same I'm not sure if it sounds the same unless I was able to do an A/B test.
Eastwood sells their pickups under MRG pickups . Chinese made , very hot and some pretty cool styles . I know they make a gold foil replica that supposed to be pretty nice .
Awesome, I love the old Airline guitars. I saw a video of Dallas Green playing a beautiful old black and white supro on youtube earlier this week and I've been looking into them over the last week.
The original Valco pickups are humbucker sized single coils. They sound awesome.
The Eastwood Airlines and other Valco inspired guitars they produce come with humbuckers installed. Those humbucker sized single coils they sell are supposed to sound like the old Valco pickups but I'm not sure if they actually do.
Richard wrote:The original Valco pickups are humbucker sized single coils. They sound awesome.
The Eastwood Airlines and other Valco inspired guitars they produce come with humbuckers installed. Those humbucker sized single coils they sell are supposed to sound like the old Valco pickups but I'm not sure if they actually do.
That's what I'm afraid of. Lately I've been of the mindset of just buying whole guitars if I like the sound and not modding things to suit me, however I don't have room for more guitars, plus the Ovation doesn't have its original pickups so I have no idea what it's "supposed" to sound like, so I could always throw pickups in to try to get that sound.
I would much rather just throw some old Valco pickups in it, but I don't know if that's possible in a standard humbucker route
I highly doubt that they are faithful replicas of the vintage pickups at all. probably something along the lines of a humbucker with one coil removed. I e-mailed him once asking about it and he never responded.
jcyphe wrote:I wonder if the Eastwood guy would also describe those as "a couple of cheap pickups" he sells.
Well remembered; there's a whole world of better, more reasonably priced pickups out there.
I wouldn't argue with that, I was merely answering the questions asked in the thread.
I really only buy GFS pickups; they're the best.
I'm fairly certain that wasn't an attack on you, Sparky—it's just that there's a bit of close-to-home history with Eastwood's business conduct. Perhaps they were being gentlemen by not directly pointing it out, but I will display no such couth. The man is clearly a snake.
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Thanks for posting this, I somehow missed that thread, and now Jcyphe's post makes sense lol.
Pat - if it's still there, I've been thinking about trading my Hagstrom for it plus some cash if they would do that....but really I'm getting ready to move to an apartment soon and don't need to be buying more things...I already am planning on leaving a few of my guitars, amps, and keyboards at home.
