EMG

[warwickhunt]

Do EMG do a pick-up that has the legend 'EMG ELECTRONIC' stencilled on the outside like this?


[b] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190627740564?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_500wt_1202"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190627740564?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_500wt_1202[/url][/b]


Added to which it looks very crude underneath (just a pair of Jazz pups in a MM casing though the top shows the 4 large pole magnets) and certainly the wiring/soldering looks a tad shoddy for EMG! I could be wrong but it just doesn't seem like an EMG product.

[ahpook]

that's an EMC (european music company ?) pickup...

i think tanglewood are part of the EMC stable.


edit: looks like an similar pickup on [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/73418-tanglewood-warroior-ii-vintage-bass/"]this thread[/url]

Edited January 14, 2012 by ahpook

[Mr. Foxen]

EMG licence out their name. That is probably a pickup from a Johnson or AXL musicman styley, the P ones come with 'Johnson EMG' pickups.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1326555386' post='1498793']
that's an EMC (european music company ?) pickup...

i think tanglewood are part of the EMC stable.


edit: looks like an similar pickup on [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/73418-tanglewood-warroior-ii-vintage-bass/"]this thread[/url]
[/quote]

Well spotted but the seller does clearly state 'EMG' in the title and in the listing. An oversight or hoping to catch the unwary/stupid?

[ahpook]

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1326557870' post='1498847']
Well spotted but the seller does clearly state 'EMG' in the title and in the listing. An oversight or hoping to catch the unwary/stupid?
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difficult to say...i may drop them a line and let them know.

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1326559211' post='1498870']
difficult to say...i may drop them a line and let them know.
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That would certainly clarify it for a potential buyer if not for us!

[ahpook]

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1326560510' post='1498883']
That would certainly clarify it for a potential buyer if not for us!
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done

[LukeFRC]

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1326554707' post='1498783']

Added to which it looks very crude underneath (just a pair of Jazz pups in a MM casing though the top shows the 4 large pole magnets) and certainly the wiring/soldering looks a tad shoddy for EMG! I could be wrong but it just doesn't seem like an EMG product.
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it's the cheap way to make them, two sets of coils around large steel pole pieces with the magnet stuck on the bottom.
As opposed to the real thing which uses magnet pole pieces and the two coils.

[RhysP]

Bar magnets on the bottom - a sure sign of a quality pickup.
Not.

[discreet]

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1326561223' post='1498897']
done
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That's two of us, then! Listing now updated after 'advisement'.

[warwickhunt]

That's more like it!

[Mr. Foxen]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1326580790' post='1499233']
Bar magnets on the bottom - a sure sign of a quality pickup.
Not.
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Plenty of quality pickups have a bar magnet on the bottom, usually a bit less crudely installed, but essentially a ceramic bar with ferrous poles. Dimarzios are generally like that, and ceramic Kent Armstrongs.

[ahpook]

the vendor replied, admitting his mistake and has amended the listing.



god is in his heaven, etc.

Edited January 15, 2012 by ahpook