Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

[atosoup]

I had these brought for me as a birthday present after moaning that I'd wanted a set for years.. But they was purchased through amazon and I was instantly suspicious as I had never seen this box before.. The pickups look the real deal but the packaging really has me concerned.. Are these the real deal? Thanks in advance for any help

 

[jeremy]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

welcome to the forum!

i havent seen the slash set packaging but that looks similar to what duncan does for other sets so i think you are ok?

 

[Gtrjunior]

Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

You could always email Duncan with these pics and check there too.

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

You could always email Duncan with three pics and check there too.

Any idea what the best email address for contact would be?

 

[Hsb]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Here is an ad from Reverb that uses the same packaging.

https://reverb.com/item/24625935-seymour-duncan-aph-2b-slash-alnico-ii-pro-humbucker-gold

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

All the boxes I’ve seen look like this one, but yours appear to be 2019, so they could have changed the package this year, for example if they lost the right to show his face on the package.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Any idea what the best email address for contact would be?

https://www.seymourduncan.com/contact-form

 

[Artie]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

The one's I installed for a customer looked like that ^^^^

SD would be the ones to ask.

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

The one's I installed for a customer looked like that ^^^^

SD would be the ones to ask.

I have dropped them an email.
Thank you all

 

[Teleplayer]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

That looks like an awesome gift to me. Happy Birthday!

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

That looks like an awesome gift to me. Happy Birthday!

Thanks! Appreciate the help here will post some pics when done, was thinking of doing a YouTube vid of the install and I have a small problem with fretting out on my les Paul ill be tackling when I install these, if I do the vid I'll share it here..

 

[Discharged]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

They're legit.

Enjoy your birthday gift.

/Peter

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

I dunno about the packaging, but the pickups themselves look legit, all the fakes ive seen have issues with the stickers on the bottom that can be spotted pretty easily.

 

[Hsb]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

I saw something last nite, I clicked on a link from here to Slash's site and it had this artwork on it vs the photo of Slash.

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

I saw something last nite, I clicked on a link from here to Slash's site and it had this artwork on it vs the photo of Slash.

You got a link?

 

[Hsb]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Link takes you to the Ernie Ball site for Slash's page. First thing that pops up in the background is the artwork shown in the first post.

https://www.ernieball.com/slash

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Link takes you to the Ernie Ball site for Slash's page. First thing that pops up in the background is the artwork shown in the first post.

https://www.ernieball.com/slash

So it does. Must be a new thing for 2019

 

[atosoup]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

So I manged to find an hour spare today in my crazy life as a new father to set about putting these in, I haven't even had a chance to play it yet due to me forgetting I was on a date night with the wife going to see toy story 4 :s

2 Big questions before I finish the install and setup tomorrow,
Have I put these in the right way up? This had me bamboozled for ages and I'm still not 100%,

Also I took the scratch plate off to do a proper clean and polish and think I prefer the guitar without it! Put it back or leave it off?

 

[beaubrummels]

Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Typically screw coils should be outside; toward the neck for the neck and toward the bridge for the bridge. Normally that puts the creme bobbins either inside or outside. Interesting it looks like the Slash set has one pickup reverse zebra so the creme bobbins end up the same way.

For me, with all the creme rings, creme binding, creme switch plate, etc, I like the pickguard on. But many rockers here prefer no guard, and sometimes no switch plate with that.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Are these genuine? Alnico aph2 slash

Normally that puts the creme bobbins either inside or outside. Interesting it looks like the Slash set has one pickup reverse zebra so the creme bobbins end up the same way.

Slash has one zebra and one reverse zebra in his Derrig LP copy.