Mystery Mini Bucker

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Texas Kurt

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I bought a used Seymour Duncan single coil sized humbucker tonight at a local store fir $50. It has screws on the top row and hex screws on the bottom row. It's looks like a reverse Lil Screaming Demon. It has a 1BC sticker on the back. I've been hunting around on forums trying to figure out what it is with no real luck. I've got lil JB (doesn't look like it) and Cool Rails(there are no rails). If anyone has any ideas let me know. I plan on installing it my bridge, but I'm worried it might not be a bridge pickup. We tested the output at the store and it wasn't a very hot pickup.
 
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The polepiece type strongly suggests a Li'l Screaming' Demon. The alternative explanation is that the pickup is a modified example of another of the Li'l humbucker series.

Possibility #1 is that somebody has very patiently swapped the pole screw types from one coil of the pickup to the other.

Possibility #2 is that the top plate did its usual trick of coming unglued. A previous owner glued the plate back in place the wrong way around.

Possibility #2.5 is that a previous owner rotated the top plate on purpose. If that person wanted a particular coil to remain operational when the pickup was coil split AND wanted the SD logo to appear the right way around, repositioning the top plate would do the trick.
 
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Well I'm installing it tomorrow come what may. I think it's a demon too. There is a knick in the plastic in the middle of the pickup that could mean someone did get tricky. There is no way a deep knick would happen from playing. Maybe he was on to something.
 
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Possibly. Those top plates were notorious for coming unglued. Early examples of the fully enclosed Li'l humbuckers also had a nasty habit of adhesive failure.

D.C. resistance meter readings should confirm exactly what pickup you have.
 
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Yes, put a meter between black and white wires and between red and green wires and let us know what you get.

Why does your post title call this a "mini bucker"? This is NOT a mini bucker, it's a single-sized humbucker.
 
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Black and white 6.82
Green and red 2.4 its swinging around to different numbers

In sorry about the using the wrong name for the pickup. Now I know.
 
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Comparing to another "Stock Stratocaster" hanging on the wall, home, or a store, a simple camping compass an inch off the pick up, will show North, (or south), for bridge, center and neck pickups. The center should be opposite. A two pick guitar, (not super cheap ones), will have One pick up North and One pick up South. I pray I am not wasting your time, I haven't done this for a while. I just checked a 2 pick up, full size Duncan Humbucker set on the wall. It still shows the north and south with the humbucker. I had concerns that was only single coil. On a Strat, if the neck is South, (I don't know), because it will have the same South on the Bridge. A good neck up will work fine on the bridge. Someone said the covers come off too easy anyway, you could flip it... ^ + ~
 
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Texas Kurt said:
Black and white 6.82.
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2 x 6.82k would be within tolerance for a Li'l Screaming' Demon.

Texas Kurt said:
Green and red 2.4 its swinging around to different numbers.
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This is nowhere near spec for any Li'l series pickup. Try and get a better meter reading. Clean up the conductor cable ends or take readings from the solder joints.
 
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CheznutCharlie said:
Comparing to another "Stock Stratocaster" hanging on the wall, home, or a store, a simple camping compass an inch off the pick up, will show North, (or south), for bridge, center and neck pickups. The center should be opposite. A two pick guitar, (not super cheap ones), will have One pick up North and One pick up South. I pray I am not wasting your time, I haven't done this for a while. I just checked a 2 pick up, full size Duncan Humbucker set on the wall. It still shows the north and south with the humbucker. I had concerns that was only single coil. On a Strat, if the neck is South, (I don't know), because it will have the same South on the Bridge. A good neck up will work fine on the bridge. Someone said the covers come off too easy anyway, you could flip it... ^ + ~
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I'm pretty sure you're trying to say something useful here...I just can't figure out what it is.
 
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