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... so the new owner can have all the fun of replacing them for themselves.
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There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
I sold them for £250 on ebay and dropped a set of Fralin Blues Specials in it. The improvement was dramatic.
Rob.
I remember seeing a pickup ring from a 59 les paul get $10,000. Just a pickup ring.
Presumably someone with a 59 had a damaged one and wanted to replace it like-for-like. Madness.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Without trying to sound sexist,ageist or racists, but don't tell me that an old Mexican lady is the only one who knows how to wrap a wire around a magnet - Yet the finer nuances of any good pick-up is about materials and knowledge
I dare say we can have a similar chat about original PAF's etc etc - And as @Haych commented earlier, other pick-ups can command silly prices - If the market exists then sellers will climb on board and buyers will respond accordingly - As for me I just don't like those early PRS pick-ups and ditto for the original Dragon p/ups, so with you on that @Haych
Bottom line is that if you have the history, mojo and reputation then you can certainly ask more than if you don't - Certainly any hype helps
But in a similar vein... have you seen the prices Jap Strat, especially Tokai, pickups fetch? The reason Seymour Duncan has the business he has today is those bloody awful things - and now folks are returning them to stock? FFS, now that is a retrograde step.
I'd say that Mojo make better sounding pickups, unquestionably.
Logic would suggest that any of the boutique style pickup makers who try out and test all the different magnets, methods, procedures etc. and work out what makes good pickups that way are more likely to make better pickups.
I'm sure the ones who believe in the magic and the mojo do get a psychosomatic pleasure when they plug their guitar in with its pickups that have been blessed by saint Abby and really are taken away by the complex depth of the sound of the scales they go up and down in their man cave.
Not so sure many of them make records that other people hear and think sound better than any other record made with guitars that have pickups made by other factory workers or pickup companies.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Back in the day, such variations just happened - Both on a day to day, build basis, plus as and when the likes of Leo and the team changed criteria, for what ever reason, be it supply of material or a cost/profit basis - There was no Apple style modern product launch on a set day, based on 'best tone ever' etc - Such pick up changes just evolved with no fuss - Today we micro analysis such changes and give them marketing tags accordingly and let the likes of Abby etc build them as required
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So, because a lot of Fender customers see older as being better, she is used in marketing as a link to the past. As in, the pickups in this are being made by the same person they were back when those vintage guitars that are so revered were made. I don't think it has anything to do with those pickups being great, I think it's purely a marketing link to the revered era.
I can't imagine someone who buys in to the legend of Abby getting a set of unmarked pickups, hooking them up and hearing them and thinking "my God, these are unmarked Abby pickups, I've got a bargain here!" They would rely on her signature being on them or some other markings that prove they were wound by her.
So if you can't tell that something is better just by it actually being better, it was never better at all.
Replicating that lack of attention to detail but quantifying and consistently reproducing it is part of the art of vintage repro pickup making.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.