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

[eclecticsynergy]

Somebody's selling one, supposedly pulled from a 2013 Les Paul.

It appears to have the correct sticker and plug. But it has no pole screws and the baseplate is without legs or ears. How would it have been mounted? Seems weird to me but I don't know if it's fishy or just odd.

Modded perhaps? I don't recall ever seeing one like this, but I almost never buy Gibson pickups.

Anyone know if Les Pauls ever had double-slug 498Ts without legs?

 

[Cdwillis]

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

Might be the leftovers from someone combining two screw coils. I can't explain the weird base plate with no legs though. Those pickups all have nickel silver baseplates with legs AFAIK. I would pass, personally. It's too weird.

 

[Mincer]

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

Wasn't there a model of LP that had rear-mounted pickups with no visible screws? Maybe it was from that?

 

[dystrust]

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

Any idea on the DCR? It's been a while since I metered one, but 498Ts are around 14K IIRC.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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

The old LPJ's used to come with plastic-covered 498T's with no holes for the screws like a metal cover would have. They had the pickup assembly glued to the cover, and the cover had the mounting tabs just like EMG's. That's where that came from.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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

The old LPJ's used to come with plastic-covered 498T's with no holes for the screws like a metal cover would have. They had the pickup assembly glued to the cover, and the cover had the mounting tabs just like EMG's. That's where that came from.

Cool, thanks Rex. I'm gonna pass; it's up on Reverb for $50 if anyone else is interested.

 

[Discharged]

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

That's a legit Gibson p'up... which doesn't mean good.

/Peter

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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

That's a legit Gibson p'up... which doesn't mean good.

/Peter

Yah, there are many who don't like the 498T and a few who really love it. I have a friend who has them in all but one of his guitars.

Not generally a fan of Gibson pickups - I think the recent issue P90s are pretty good, and I like my old (early 1980s) Gibson Shaw humbuckers a lot.

I was curious about the 498T because some say it has a certain gritty character to it that isn't present in other humbuckers of comparable DCR. Haven't owned one in years and I figured it was worth trying again, if I can find one very cheap. Gibson humbuckers are ridiculously overpriced; even if they were pretty good the prices would still be too high IMO.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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

I love the 498T, but I doubt that sounds much like a standar 498 with the double slug coils and brass baseplate.

 

[htwheelz67]

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

I recently rediscovered the 498t, just put in 2 of my guitars absolutely love it, I agree on the brass plate and slugs i dont know how it would sound right.

 

[Discharged]

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

498 brass baseplate.

??? That's NOT a brass plate.

No Gibson p'up using Alnico magnets come stock with brass baseplates.

/Peter

 

[Cdwillis]

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

What is it then?

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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

??? That's NOT a brass plate.

No Gibson p'up using Alnico magnets come stock with brass baseplates.

/Peter

Well, it looks like they made one.

Like I said, those came glued inside plastic covers. They didn't use the standard Gibson-branded baseplate on those. On every pic I've seen of those, it certainly looks like brass. Definitely not nickel.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

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

 

[htwheelz67]

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

looks like brass to me...........

 

[donaldr]

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

@Rex_Rocker is right, coming from a 2013 Gibson LPJ.

 

[EmiAba]

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

Legit or not they appear like Asian pickups :bigeyes2:

 

[Discharged]

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

it certainly looks like brass. Definitely not nickel.

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

 

[audiocheck]

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

@Rex_Rocker is right, coming from a 2013 Gibson LPJ.

Correct!! but not all bridges were 498T, mine had a pair of 490's

 

[donaldr]

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

Correct!! but not all bridges were 498T, mine had a pair of 490's

Never said all 2013 Gibson LPJ where 498T