Re: Aaaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhh.......
fenderiarhs said:
i am getting back to passives on one of my guitars and i am searching for a JB trembucker or a distortion (tb6) pickup on ebay.............almost ALL of them are black...:yell: :yell: :yell: :yell: i thought stratocasters are the most common guitars on the planet and they usually come with a white pickguard .........do you really prefer the ugly combination black pickup-white pickguard or the reason i can only find black duncans is that they are being used mostly by gibson players?
Well, eBay isn´t exactlya a shop with a decent selection, it´s pretty much hot or miss...definitely NOT a place to form an opinion on
fenderiarhs said:
.... i thought stratocasters are the most common guitars on the planet and they usually come with a white pickguard .........do you really prefer the ugly combination black pickup-white pickguard or the reason i can only find black duncans is that they are being used mostly by gibson players?......
Neither... if you´ve ever looked, most strats are
S-S-S, meaning that most strat players that want a humbucking will either
a) have to have it routed, and will then almost certainly order a white pickup to match (meaning also it´s probably going nowhere)
b) Grab a Lil series or other stacked humbucker.....
And if you look on ebay, you´ll see that a large amount of there ARE white... Why rout your strat out or buy a new picklguard for 20€ when you can spend 10€ more on the pickup and have something that sounds good AND matches cosmetically AND doesn´t devalue the instrument?
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/humbuckersdescr.shtml#Trembuckers153
...available in black, zebra (cream & black), reverse zebra, white, nickel-silver and gold covers.
If you HAVE to have one used, you may well be forced to take black... if you buy one new, you have a few more choices.
