SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

[moo cow]

Hello all, first post here. Great community.
I was swapping some pickups around today and when I took out my bridge pickup in my tele I noticed it had the letters "SBT" written in a blue paint pen. There are no other markings, labels etc. Does anyone know which pickup this is?
It isn't listed on SD's pickup ID page.
Thanks for any help!

 

[Ayrton]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

Hello, and welcome.

Can't say I have ever seen Seymour write in blue paint pen. This is a certain Duncan pickup?

Pics?

 

[moo cow]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

Here's a pic.

I've searched this site pretty well before posting and found one other fella (link below) asking the same question 6 years ago but wasn't answered. Seems like there might be some of these floating around. Maybe prototypes?

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?228347-SBT-on-the-bottom-of-my-Broadcaster

 

[Mincer]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

OK, I have no idea. I hadn't seen the blue paint pen before.

 

[jeremy]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

never seen it before

 

[Ayrton]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

Put a meter on it, but my bet is a Broadcaster STL-1B

The writing on the bottom could have been from an OEM

 

[AlexR]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

Or could have been an ID thing for potential theft.

I have an old p90 that seems to have an etching on the bottom of someone's name - I'm betting for the same reason.

 

[Ayrton]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

"Agileguy" had the same thing, so that is why I think maybe it was an OEM note. I don't know if the STL-1 ever came stock on a production guitar though.

 

[SJ318]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

Single Bridge Tele?
Steve Buffington

 

[Mincer]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

"Agileguy" had the same thing, so that is why I think maybe it was an OEM note. I don't know if the STL-1 ever came stock on a production guitar though.

This would make sense. So far, this is my 'most likely' explanation.

 

[moo cow]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

I was thinking "single" "tele" "bridge" as well. Was there a certain year they started stamping "made in america or usa"? That might help me at least get an idea of it's age.

 

[Ayrton]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

That baseplate has been around since the days of the three letter stickers, so that is too broad. I am going to see if Riley can look into this.

 

[Riley]

Re: SBT? on the bottom of my Tele pickup.

As far as I know we would not have made that kind of marking on the pickup here – could be an OEM thing. I'll see if I can dig anything else up and check back in later.