Recent content by sammy777

I'm looking at some vintage Kramers, and and hoping to get ones with SD pickups, which I heard became standard sometime in the mid 80s. Are these identifiable by the pickup covers? I have a vintage 80s JB and see that it has two holes in the pickup covers on the top side, and one hole on the...

I just bought an old JB that I am excited to put in my strat. I noticed that one end (see pictures) looks a little strange with some thick black stuff visible, I guess it’s the wiring. I know these are hand made, but does that look normal? Just wondering if it means someone was messing around...

There's a lot of info online about the history of replacement humbuckers, but I'm having a harder time finding the history of single coils. Unfortunately the Duncan product history website seems to be broken: https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/seymour-w-duncan/history-of-seymour-duncan-products...

Putting aside the question of which type of pickup sounds better, does anybody know the history of when Trembuckers / F-spaced pickups started being produced? I am wondering in particular if my JB using guitar heroes of the early (Warren DeMartini, Steve Stevens) and late (Vito Bratta) 1980's...