"Gibson 498T" with double slugs and no legs - legit or not?

[audiocheck]

Re: "Gibson 498T" with double slugs and no legs - legit or not?

Never said all 2013 Gibson LPJ where 498T

Pardon for the misunderstanding. I was just stating info, not attacking.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

Re: "Gibson 498T" with double slugs and no legs - legit or not?

The fact that's yellow-ish, doesn't mean it's brass.

The yellow hue belongs to a different type of nickelsilver, profusely used in jewelry and in fretwork for economic, classical nylon-string guitars. Economic is the key word here.

OTOH, you just can't have brass with such a light hue, not even with a mirror polishing which, in the case of brass, the "grain" is too coarse to allow mirror-polishing.

/Peter

Ah, didn't know that! Didn't know they made baseplates out of yellow nickel silver. I stand corrected.

 

[Discharged]

Re: "Gibson 498T" with double slugs and no legs - legit or not?

Ah, didn't know that!

I didn't know either until I made the same erroneous assumption to my late uncle, a classical guitar maker, whom clarified it to me.

Didn't know they made baseplates out of yellow nickel silver. I stand corrected.

I saw it mentioned in the following post: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/sho...se-view-pt-1&p=3502211&viewfull=1#post3502211

Scroll down until the following ***EDIT: polepiece spread is 52mm. *** and I quote: "The baseplate is golden nickelsilver-made; the kind of alloy used in fretwire-making"

/Peter