Need Some Help IDing My Navigator's Pickups

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Hey guys,

I need some help here... I have a really rare ESP Navigator N-LP-700LTD Les Paul, and it was a very limited run that ESP Japan did for only a short while. It was a $7,000+ Les Paul replica when new, and has some crazy specs, like Shellac varnish finish and Brazilian rosewood fretboard, etc, etc. The thing I can't figure out is what pickups are in this guitar. I know they are stock, and I know they must be very high-end... they have been known to put Tom Holmes pickups in special models... but these I think are hand-made by Seymour Duncan himself. The pickups have only his signature (Seymour) and it has a serial number sticker and a sticker that says "neck" and "bridge" and that's it. I don't think these are normal stock pickups, but maybe you've seen similar humbuckers before? Please check them out on a guitar I recently sold to a friend... I have another one that probably has the same ones in it, too.

Here's the link:
www.guitarsjapan.com/2002_ESP_Navigator_N-LP-700LTD_1959_Les_Paul_Replica.html

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

Andrew
 
Re: Need Some Help IDing My Navigator's Pickups

Stumbled across this 2-year-old thread, thought I'd answer as long as I'm here. Andrew, those appear to be Duncan Antiquity humbuckers. You can read about them on the Seymour Duncan web site. I'd say those are his top-of-the-line pickups. Not a true custom shop pickup, but the next best thing.
 
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kevinabb said:
Stumbled across this 2-year-old thread, thought I'd answer as long as I'm here. Andrew, those appear to be Duncan Antiquity humbuckers. You can read about them on the Seymour Duncan web site. I'd say those are his top-of-the-line pickups. Not a true custom shop pickup, but the next best thing.
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Just to clarify: this is a real Custom Shop item, but the most successful one! You can order them as you want, but the dealers stock them in the 'standard' configuration with aged covers and degaussed A2 magnets.
 
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:haha:

Nothing says "vintage authenticity" like the rainbow-colored ball ends on a set of D'Addarios!
 
Re: Need Some Help IDing My Navigator's Pickups

Well, uh are you supposed to use the stock strings a 50 year old guitar came with?
 
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tc said:
Well, uh are you supposed to use the stock strings a 50 year old guitar came with?
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Ha-ha. You could use anything else on the market, with a normal brass or nickel colored ball end, and it wouldn't look like such an jarring anachronism.
 
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HAHA well anyways you won't be looking inside the tailpiece when you play...I got your point it's only that the first post was a bit weird. But who says I can't have colored strings on a vintage design guitar!

(I'm kidding my fingers hate those coated, colored strings)
 
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Aren't those colors what happens when the original 1959 strings age? :biglaugh:
 
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No its kind of a beginners playalong system.

'... and now lets fret the green string in the second bar....well done!'
 
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