the curious case of gibson's mini wide range humbucker
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:18 pm
while googling i found this thread on a les paul forum...
http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showt ... p?t=108432
from what i can tell they came in supro/valco slide guitars and then lawyerswithtelecasters.com put them in "coodercasters" like this...
anyways, if you happen to see one of those pickups floating around, you may want to grab it
http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showt ... p?t=108432
intrigued, i searched more and found that lollar now makes clones for $250 each, and curtis novak repaired one, though to me, it looks like that is a magnet in the middle...They are Cunife magnet pickups. CuNiFe (Copper-Nickel-Ferrite). The polepieces were magnetized themselves instead of having a one-piece bar magnet underneath like the PAF.
Similar in design to the Fender Wide range humbucker, found on Telecaster Customs. Both pickups were designed by Seth Lover.
As far as I know they made by Gibson as a OEM supplier to Harmony.
They also made a mini that was Used in their Epiphone models. But there was a different mini with 6 poles on one side, with a bar magnet.
Here is a excerpt from a Seth Lover interview from Vintage guitar mag where he mentions the stagger pole piece mini hum
http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=28
"And here’s the Epiphone mini-humbucker. I changed the design so as to offset the screws and look different — maybe better in some ways — than the Gibson humbucker with its straight screws. It wasn’t quite as loud as the Gibson version, with fewer turns of the coil, and it was a bit trebly... but it did the job."
from what i can tell they came in supro/valco slide guitars and then lawyerswithtelecasters.com put them in "coodercasters" like this...
anyways, if you happen to see one of those pickups floating around, you may want to grab it