I'm new at this, so if I sound really ignorant or uneducated in the following, it's because I am.
I'm repairing/restoring an old Les Paul-copy Electra, and I got a couple of used SD pups I figured I could pop in. The repairman I bought them from I assume wouldn't sell me a set of pickups if one wasn't a bridge pickup and the other a neck pickup. So my first question (which I might answer for myself in the following) is: how do I tell the difference between a neck pup and a bridge pup?
In an attempt to answer my own question before making an ass of myself on an online forum... :smack: ... I went about indentifying the pickups on the SD site. The first one was a zebra pickup with "JBJ" on the bottom sticker. Obvious what that one was. Since JB's are recommended for bridge position (as it so helpfully says here - hope I didn't misinterperet...), I figure the other must be a neck position. But just to be sure, I figured I'd identify it too. Trouble is, I can't.
This one is another humbucker, all black. It looks much newer than the JB, and the sticker on the bottom this time reads:
1FT63
SH1N 0054
This page would seem to suggest that it's an SH-1n '59, but I just wanted someone who knows more about this stuff to verify that.
Thanks. :burnout:
I'm repairing/restoring an old Les Paul-copy Electra, and I got a couple of used SD pups I figured I could pop in. The repairman I bought them from I assume wouldn't sell me a set of pickups if one wasn't a bridge pickup and the other a neck pickup. So my first question (which I might answer for myself in the following) is: how do I tell the difference between a neck pup and a bridge pup?
In an attempt to answer my own question before making an ass of myself on an online forum... :smack: ... I went about indentifying the pickups on the SD site. The first one was a zebra pickup with "JBJ" on the bottom sticker. Obvious what that one was. Since JB's are recommended for bridge position (as it so helpfully says here - hope I didn't misinterperet...), I figure the other must be a neck position. But just to be sure, I figured I'd identify it too. Trouble is, I can't.
This one is another humbucker, all black. It looks much newer than the JB, and the sticker on the bottom this time reads:
1FT63
SH1N 0054
This page would seem to suggest that it's an SH-1n '59, but I just wanted someone who knows more about this stuff to verify that.
Thanks. :burnout:
