Fake or not a fake?

Truth be told, I almost thought that it could have been wound by Seymour. But his signature looks completely different, at least based on what I see on the Antiquities.

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Hi, OP here.

I ended up buying the pup - from a friendly young man who inherited a box full of all sorts of pickups, mostly Tonerider and GFS - the SD box still had the old price tag in Belgian Franks (we switched to Euros in 2002), so it's not gonna be a fake.
Sticker stamp: TB11J
There's a dash above the J but it is a J, not an S or a 5 so I'm very happy. It will be replacing the stock TB-11 in my Washburn wi66 - curious to see how much change there will be.

I'll be back with my evaluation later on.
 
No one is talking about the 6 screw holes in the legs? I've only seen that on German-made Shadow pickups and some Ibanez X series stuff from Korea.
 
you mean the three holes on each leg of the baseplate? every trembucker has those
 
Okay so the new one has a bit less bass but it's got a slight mid-honk cocked wah thingy going that becomes noticeable especially with single notes on the 3rd string and gain.
Preferred the stock one, but honestly the difference is so small (I recorded some riffs and played them back to back) I'm not sure about swapping them again.
 
superpete said:
https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/faqs/labels-built-before-2002

according to this...NO S!!!

"If there is an extra letter at the end it reflects who actually wound your pickup: •A Raul Araiza (Single Coils) •B Leticia Bautista (Single Coils) •C Catalina Padilla (Rails) •D Debbie Nyquist (Humbuckers) •E Edward Madrigal (Humbuckers) •G Gloria Ocompo (Humbuckers) •J Maricella Juarez-83′ (Humbuckers, Single Coils, Stacks, Rails) •J Janice Salazar-til 83′ (Stacks) •L Lidia Daniel (Humbuckers) •L Leticia Quintero-87′-90′ (Stacks, Rails) •M Martha Cameron (Humbuckers, Single Coils) •O Oti Mora (Stacks, Rails) •P Lupe Perez-86′ on (Rails) •P Patty Vasquez-till 86′ (Stacks, Rails) •R Connie Rocha (Single Coils) •V Joe Velez (Single Coils) •X Mai Xiong (Stacks)"


PS I'm by no means insinuating this isn't a legit pickup, I just watch a lot of law and order.
Click to expand...

An interesting illustration for all the nativist Made in America nationalists who have some sort of macho 1950s blue collar white guys manufacturing their stuff industrial fantasies... like 3 dudes and 3 anglo names on that list.
 
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