pickup identification help

telemachus

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I've only a passing knowledge of Bill Lawrences various companies/pickups but my friend gave me a set of them (at least that's what I figure them to be...) to replace the stock pickups in my 80's Japanese strat.

They look identical pretty much to the l280/290s on Bills site (http://www.billlawrence.com/Pages/Pickup_Window/280.htm) but they've got "Keystone USA" printed on the back of them and the pickups covers have "Wilde" printed in red on the front of them. I don't suppose anyone has an idea of what they are/when about they were made?

As far as I can tell Keystone was one of the names Bill Lawrence sold pickups under after selling out his stake in the original "Bill Lawrence" company, it's just confusing me as I thought "Wilde" was the name of another one of his pickups companies for a time, I found it odd that it had both names on them.
 
Re: pickup identification help

Wilde, Keystone, are both the genuine www.Billlawrence.com article. They are the good ones. I have a set of 280's with keystone bases on them. BTW, He has changed names a number of different times. Nothing to worry about though, you have the real ones!!

Welcome to the forum.
 
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