Franken-Seymour?

[Seynourstrats]

I bought a used evh special. It has Seymour Duncan pickups on an EVH plate. I am trying to ID the pickups. Any ideas? I think Custom Custom but don’t know.

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[Leon Of Late]

Welcome to the forum. I’ll let our Van Halen experts expound on the provenance of this pickup. I don’t know enough about the Seymour/EVH collaboration to be sure.

It almost certainly won’t be a Custom Custom in the neck position, or at least it shouldn’t. Bridge, more possible.

 

[Seynourstrats]

Welcome to the forum. I’ll let our Van Halen experts expound on the provenance of this pickup. I don’t know enough about the Seymour/EVH collaboration to be sure.

It almost certainly won’t be a Custom Custom in the neck position, or at least it shouldn’t. Bridge, more possible.

Thank you for warm reception. I am hoping it’s a a ‘78, but those have SD backs that fit evhs I think


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[Mincer]

Interesting pickup! Do you have a meter to check the DCR? It would at least get us in the ballpark of any production pickup. I wasn't aware of a pickup with an EVH baseplate with the SD logo on top.

 

[Leon Of Late]

It’s likely some OEM type of a thing. Depending on its production date, it’s possible it’s a 78 set, if there are two pickups. We don’t have a ton of info. OP, tell us a bit more about the guitar. Does it have two pickups? Most people don’t have a multi meter.

 

[beaubrummels]

Someone put SD coils on an EVH plate, because that's the only plate that will fit direct mounted in an EVH guitar (unless you want to file a Duncan plate down at all the corners). You can see where the original EVH wires were, coming from the 4 corners and glued/clipped/waxed in the center like a Fender humbucker. The SD coils could be anything - have to measure them just to get in the ball park of what they could be. They are newer coils because the logo text is thick.

 

[idsnowdog]

Someone put a Duncan on a different baseplate for direct mounting. The DCR reading would tell you which one it is.

 

[Mincer]

Someone put a Duncan on a different baseplate for direct mounting. The DCR reading would tell you which one it is.

The simplest, most obvious explanation, indeed.

 

[Seynourstrats]

First is bridge, second neck. The switch, I found out is a 6 way, so took me a little while to figure it out...


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[gsammo79]

Possibly a JB bridge or Custom 5 bridge based on the meter reading. The neck humbucker might be a '59/Jazz/PG. Hard to know

 

[Seynourstrats]

Also any input on what u symbol is woukd be great


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[Bill Dennis]

I suspect they mounted the coils on the evh plate for the ability to direct mount....

 

[Artie]

Also any input on what u symbol is woukd be great

The little "u", and the half "1" mean that you don't have a good electrical connection between the LCD glass screen and the "foamy" connector that connect it to the circuit board. In other words, you're missing the upper half of the display on those last two digits. That "u" should be zero. You can't solder to that glass, so they use a multi layer "foamy" thing that uses alternate layers of spongy plastic and thin carbon film to make a pressed connector. Probably not much you can do about it. I've tried before on old Fluke meters with little success.

 

[LesStrat]

:cool3:

These guys are a wealth of knowledge.

 

[Seynourstrats]

:cool3:

These guys are a wealth of knowledge.

Do you have any insight on what these could be? Thx


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[Leon Of Late]

Do you have any insight on what these could be? Thx

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Possibly a JB bridge or Custom 5 bridge based on the meter reading. The neck humbucker might be a '59/Jazz/PG. Hard to know

Since your multi meter isn’t working properly, it’s hard to say, plus with the neck pickup being in the readings range of so many of the neck buckers that SD makes, it is really hard to say. As gasmmo79 said, 59,Jazz, APH, Pearly Gates, even a few others is a possibility.

The bridge is likely to be a JB, CC a C5, maybe a Custom. A JB normally reads about 16.4K I think, A Custom reads about 14.1K. The thing is, there really isn’t a standard SD bridge pickup that reads 15k. So again, your multi meter may be off, the reading may be skewed reading it through the jack, etc. Even if it read exactly 14.1, it could still be one of 3 pickups, although then I would put more money on the Custom Custom given what its in. This is the problem when things are customized.

Can you ask the person you purchased the guitar from?

 

[Zheddar]

Getting a reading from the output, and then from the end of a jack often lowers the actual reading some. As far as the 15.(something)k reading, I have used many JB's from the mid to late 90's that read in the 15.5k and up range. Without knowing that second number on the neck pickup, it is pretty hard to have an idea. I mean many Duncan neck pickups read from 7.2k-7.6k anyway.

 

[Seynourstrats]

Took them out, Neck is 7.5 and Bridge is 16.3


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[beaubrummels]

My vote is leaning JB/Jazz.

 

[Leon Of Late]

That is what I think think also. 99% sure on the bridge and 95% of the time, standard paring was a Jazz with a JB. The rest of the time usually a 59’.