New Guy here.

[OKC]

I'm from Oklahoma City and just signed up. I've been looking around and used the search but didn't have any luck or didn't know how to word it. I'm thinking there has to have been a lot of people before me that has been looking to identify the pickup. If I'm gooing about this wrong mods, please tell me. Can anyone tell me what this pickup up is?

 

[Mr. B]

Re: New Guy here.

Those aren't the usual Duncan stickers. My guess is that the CC might mean "CustomCustom", but they have Alnico 2 magnets, and that other sticker says AL-5, which would make it a Custom5. Those 2 stickers are sort of contradictory. I wonder who put them on there?

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

That's the problem I am having "AL V" makes me think Alnico 5 and the CC = custom Custom. Think someone put an extra sticker on there? or possibly changed a magnet and made a certain pickup?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: New Guy here.

Does it measure like a custom on a meter?

A Custom Custom and Custom 5 sound different. I would put it in a guitar and see what it sounds like to narrow down what it is.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: New Guy here.

Do you have a multimeter? If so, what resistance do you get between red and green, and between black and white?

 

[Mincer]

Re: New Guy here.

It could be a long-legged CC made for an OEM buyer, who used their own sticker. I don't have a list of guitars that came with CCs. Someone here may know that.

 

[zizyphus]

Re: New Guy here.

Welcome!

I'm posting partly because I want to follow this thread, because I'm curious and have lots of time now....

Anyway, as the others have said, a multimeter reading will be key.

Where did the pickup come from? Was it an eBay purchase or something to that effect? I read elsewhere on the forum this morning that someone had an HSH Charvel pro mod that had a Full Shred wired into the neck and a '59 neck wired into the bridge. You never know with this stuff :/

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

Red & White were connected, green was soldered to shielded cable.
R & G = 6757
B & W = 7060
All wires were disconnected from each other before checking ohms.
Assuming R & W is for coil tap?

I bought a used Charvel years ago that should have came out with the SH-14. I liked the sound of the pickup but it wasn't spaced for a floyd rose.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: New Guy here.

Red & White were connected, green was soldered to shielded cable.
R & G = 6757
B & W = 7060
All wires were disconnected from each other before checking ohms.
Assuming R & W is for coil tap?

I bought a used Charvel years ago that should have came out with the SH-14. I liked the sound of the pickup but it wasn't spaced for a floyd rose.

You’re saying you pulled this from a Charvel you had? It measures like a Custom wind, it could be OEM or custom order with an A5, but I didnt know Charvel would put a regular Humbucker Custom with long legs in at the factory.

 

[Masta' C]

Re: New Guy here.

Those are the labels SD used from ~1994 to ~2001 or so.

I will bet money that is a shop floor custom version of a Custom Custom with an A5 magnet.

In other words, that was a "Custom 5" before the "Custom 5" was officially made into a production pickup a short while later (around 2002, if I recall correctly)

 

[hamerfan]

Re: New Guy here.

Those are the labels SD used from ~1994 to ~2001 or so.

I will bet money that is a shop floor custom version of a Custom Custom with an A5 magnet.

In other words, that was a "Custom 5" before the "Custom 5" was officially made into a production pickup a short while later (around 2002, if I recall correctly)

The oldest pickup with a labelprinted tag i have seen was a 1996.
The Custom 5 was also called Custom Custom Custom.

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

I bought two of these guitars used' from the same batch; that were manufactured around 2002. They came out of the Chushin Gakki factory. one had the SH-14 like was advertised and the other one had this pickup. A lot people didn't care for the SH-14 but I thought it was a great pickup.
Does anyone know what the windings compare to with that many Ohms? Can somone enlighten me what 'long legs' means?

Thank you in advance

EDIT: I was looking at https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/custom-5 and the custom 5 is actually called 'SH-14' could this be the precursor to this pickup?

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

You’re saying you pulled this from a Charvel you had? It measures like a Custom wind, it could be OEM or custom order with an A5, but I didnt know Charvel would put a regular Humbucker Custom with long legs in at the factory.

I bought the guitar used so I cant say for sure that it came from the factory with this pickup

 

[Aceman]

Re: New Guy here.

Charvel would absolutely put a Custom Custom in a Floyded Strat though....

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: New Guy here.

Charvel would absolutely put a Custom Custom in a Floyded Strat though....

Short-leg trembucker, though, right?

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

I’m honestly don’t know what the difference is between a long leg vs short leg. I’m assuming it’s visible?


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[Mincer]

Re: New Guy here.

You can absolutely tell the difference between short and long legs. Long legs are .550" from the baseplate, Short legs are .280".
However, if this pickup was an OEM part, they can be ordered with all kinds of options, like long legs on a typical short-legged pickup. If that is what the company needs, SD will build that for them.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: New Guy here.

I’m honestly don’t know what the difference is between a long leg vs short leg. I’m assuming it’s visible?


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It’s the mounting legs. Original Humbuckers started out with long legs. When people started putting Humbuckers in Strats, baseplates with shorter legs were made so you didn’t have to route the body almost through the backside to fit a Humbucker on it.

 

[OKC]

Re: New Guy here.

Thanks for explanation on short leg and long leg, I measured it and got 3/4" to 13/16". Does everyone agree that the windings ohm out to a Custom Custom and this could be a special order?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: New Guy here.

I think Masta’C nailed it.