Help ID my pup?

Scott1969

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Hey all!

Scott here... newbie... surprising I've never joined before :)

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Hoping for some help IDing this... Found it in my closet-o-goodies as cleaning up gear. No idea how old or what guitar it came from... Thanks!!!
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

DC resistance? If near 16k, it could be an Allan Holdsworth with two condutors wiring. I have seen a couple of that pick up in past and always with 4 conductors. But If I am not wrong, it was a custom shop order pickup. Maybe someone asked it to custom shop with 2 conductors.
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

Welcome to the forum!

Yes, to start, we would need to know the DC resistance. Not many models are double screws, so that narrows it down a lot.
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

Welcome to the forum!

Yes, to start, we would need to know the DC resistance. Not many models are double screws, so that narrows it down a lot.

Hey guys, thanks!
I have no way of measuring resistance myself but I'll bring it by my tech buddy to check.
Thanks for the replies!
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

Hey folks it took me a while but finally measured the resistance... 8.64... appreciate the responses i got when posting - wondering again if anyone has a good idea what this pickup is? And if yall think it'd be better neck or bridge? Me, i like vintage kinda tone so the 8.64 is probably right up my alley... Thanks!!!!!!!
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

Hmm... that doesn't match any production pickups, but there is a chance that someone custom ordered a slightly overwound dual screw '59b, but that's not extremely likely.
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

Hmm... that doesn't match any production pickups, but there is a chance that someone custom ordered a slightly overwound dual screw '59b, but that's not extremely likely.

Hey Christopher thanks for that... so it's a mystery... I'm pretty ignorant re: pickups... could this mean one of the coils isn't working so it was originally 16 but now one coil only so 8-ish? Or do these things degrade? Anyway, thanks!
 
Re: Help ID my pup?

There's not really any way to better know what it could be unless you measured the individual coils, but it's not so easy doing that in a two conductor pickup. You'd have to mod it to have four conductors, which isn't really worth the money just to find out in my opinion. There's also the chance that it's a modded Screamin Demon with such a low reading due to the weather.
 
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Re: Help ID my pup?

I have had a few '59b that read in the 8k range, so that may be an old Holdsworth variant (homemade maybe?). There were the JB and the '59 versions. (I actually have both).
 
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