Epiphone Pickups

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Sniper1

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Aquired a set of Epiphone humbuckers(2 wire),stamped into the bottom plate is
EPIPHONE F and EPIPHONE B,I have seem Epiphone pickups before but this is the first set I've seen with the logo stamped into the metal.Anyone know the time frame of these?
 
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I could be wrong but i thought they stamped the newer ones.... 2001 and newer..... But i'm not really sure.. I find most Epi Pickups to be too noisy
 
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Sounds to me like a set of the modern pickups. If the wires are blue for one and red for the other, they're fairly recent, say 2001 and up like WhoFan said.
 
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One wire black and the other is red,you guys are probably right,hoping I was on to something after seeing a pair of Gibsons going for 12 grand on eBay.I'm going to install them in a Oscar 0E30.
 
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Before installing the set, put them face to face and look closely at the total width across the poles. Epi has both regular "vintage", and "modern" wide spacing (not F-spaced) pickups.

Some newer guitars get a pair of mellower vintage spaced pickups, like the ES-335 copies...and guitars like the LP Standards get one mellow vintage space for the neck and one "hotter" wound, wide spaced pickup for the rear.

When in doubt, you can always get an ohm meter, and measure each. Install the higher ohm pickup at the bridge.

The pickups that came out of my 2004 Epi LP were indeed stamped on bottom with "Epiphone". The "hot" bridge pickup is stamped with an "R", and has a black wiring harness. The neck pickup stamped with an "F", and has a red wiring harness.
 
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Sniper1 said:
Aquired a set of Epiphone humbuckers(2 wire),stamped into the bottom plate is
EPIPHONE F and EPIPHONE B,I have seem Epiphone pickups before but this is the first set I've seen with the logo stamped into the metal.Anyone know the time frame of these?
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I highly recommened replacing those pups with a set of Duncans.:smokin:
 
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I am taking the advice of this thread and replacing my epi 2004 pickups with Seymour Duncan 59' and JB. I am replacing the pots with CTS parts and had to replace the 3 way toggle switch since mine broke off...

I am adding two push pull pots for coil splitting as well.

Dilemna - The diagram I got from the seymour duncan site is good but i am confused as hell when I look at the epi wiring harness.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/2h_2v_2t_3w_2pp.html

Question - should i yank out the epi wiring harness and use new wire and avoid the harness since it seems like I can't use the existing harness with the new wiring diag?

thanks
 
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