Raised D string pickup *edited* should have looked closer- G string!

[cameltoe]

This caught my eye:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111410948590

Pickups are the wrong way round, and the neck appears to have been oversprayed with some brown gloop. Not really sure what to make of it to be honest!

Edited July 20, 2014 by cameltoe

[Ktmman]

Frets look huge...Did they have jumbo frets then?

[gjones]

It needs a good scrub with dettol and a steel brush (also works for Hemorrhoids...... so I've been told).

Edited July 20, 2014 by gjones

[KiOgon]

[b] [size=4]"Raised D string pickup "[/size][/b]

[b] [size=4]Started by [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/5318-cameltoe/"]cameltoe[/url], Yesterday, 05:22 PM [/size][/b]

Looks like the raised poles are on the G string to me

[discreet]

A 72 with relic work to make it look like a 59..?
If it's a genuine 72 we'll never know. No numbers on the pots - why?

[Thunderbird]

He says solder is covering the numbers on the pots up seems a bit suspect to me And home come the poles have been raised on the G string like that? is it to give it more volume?

[cameltoe]

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1405873972' post='2506031']
[b] [size=4]"Raised D string pickup "[/size][/b]

[b] [size=4]Started by [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/5318-cameltoe/"]cameltoe[/url], Yesterday, 05:22 PM [/size][/b]

Looks like the raised poles are on the G string to me
[/quote]

Yup, even worse than I first suspected!!

That'll teach me to post first, look later!!

[cameltoe]

[quote name='Ktmman' timestamp='1405791652' post='2505330']
Frets look huge...Did they have jumbo frets then?
[/quote]

Well the vintage '57 ('58,'59) he's modeled it on certainly didn't.

And I can never understand why people have such trouble telling the difference between Poly and Nitro- I see this a lot, even on basschat- 'thin poly finish, possibly nitro...' They feel NOTHING alike! If it's nitro, you know about it!!

Edited July 20, 2014 by cameltoe

[cameltoe]

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1405874919' post='2506042']
He says solder is covering the numbers on the pots up seems a bit suspect to me And home come the poles have been raised on the G string like that? is it to give it more volume?
[/quote]

'57's came with raised A-pole pieces. No one really knows why- it was apparently to even out the volume at the time, but since then we've learnt to just raise the A side of the pickup over the E side.

These p'ups are the wrong way round, so we end up with raised G strings!! Fnar fnar

The solder mess on the pots looks absolutely guff.