Abby Pickups price guide

cutch14

i have a set of signed Abby pickups pulled from a CS Strat, I was hoping for some information on their value.  Thanks in advance.

sweepy

I’ve seen sets go from £150 to £300, seems to be a case of how keen you are to sell and what they owe you. Those prices are completed listings from eBay, so they do seem to vary a lot

Chalky

The problem is - what do they sound like? 50s, 60s, high output, low output, middy, glassy?  Without the spec she wound to, its pot luck for the buyer.

Wazmeister

To be fair, Ive seen them go for up to £600

StuartMac290

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

digitalscream

Moved out of the Classifieds, since nothing is being sold...

sweepy

Wazmeister said:

To be fair, Ive seen them go for up to £600

Yes, they do seem to vary by a ridiculous amount and there is loaded set on eBay at the moment for £250 buy it now

meltedbuzzbox

StuartMac290 said:

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

Rare or not I would have sold them at that. 
You can buy a car for £600

markr76

I sold a set on ebay. A set wound by Abby in 2010 taken from my 62' cs strat, the pups were 60's handwounds. They sold for £550. I didnt think I'd get more than £300. 

impmann

If someone offers you £600 for them, take the money and run. You can replace them for a lot cheaper with something equally as good, if not nicer.

guitars4you

are they signed 'abby' or signed 'AB' - 

'abby' are wound personally by her and these are the more desirable version
'ab' are wound by other staff under Abby's watchful eye - almost like an apprenticeship

prlgmnr

meltedbuzzbox said:

StuartMac290 said:

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

Rare or not I would have sold them at that. 
You can buy a car for £600

You can't play Little Wing on a car

Sassafras

Apparently it's her sweat and dead skin cells that make all the difference to the sound.
Literally, her DNA.

Sassafras

prlgmnr said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

StuartMac290 said:

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

Rare or not I would have sold them at that. 
You can buy a car for £600

You can't play Little Wing on a car

You can if you've got a car stereo.

impmann

prlgmnr said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

StuartMac290 said:

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

Rare or not I would have sold them at that. 
You can buy a car for £600

You can't play Little Wing on a car

No but you can play Layla

thermionic

With these ludicrously overinflated prices, surely by now a significant proportion of Abby pickups must be fake? Any standard vintage-type Strat pickup with the addition of a forged signature would do it. 

richardhomer

prlgmnr said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

StuartMac290 said:

I was offered £600 for a set of Custom 65s hand wound by her, but they are very rare pickups

Rare or not I would have sold them at that. 
You can buy a car for £600

You can't play Little Wing on a car

If it’s a small car, it’ll have little wings....

Dan

I had some fat 50's and sold them for £300. They were ok but nothing special. Brought some mojo 60's and they are superb!

markr76

I now have the mojo 60's set in my cs strat also. They are fantastic. Marc sure knows how to wind a pickup.

cutch14

guitars4you said:

are they signed 'abby' or signed 'AB' - 

'abby' are wound personally by her and these are the more desirable version
'ab' are wound by other staff under Abby's watchful eye - almost like an apprenticeship

They are the signed ‘abby’ version.

guitars4you

cutch14 said:

guitars4you said:

are they signed 'abby' or signed 'AB' - 

'abby' are wound personally by her and these are the more desirable version
'ab' are wound by other staff under Abby's watchful eye - almost like an apprenticeship

They are the signed ‘abby’ version.

those are the 'chosen' ones o Lord