Vostre Roy
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Greetings to all!
About a year ago, I bought an Ibanez RS1010SL (Steve Lukather signature) guitar because I liked the look of it and I fancied a 21 frets guitar. The guy selling it said in the add that both pickups were changed to Seymour Duncan though he didn't knew which one they were as he bought it like that. Here what it looked like as I got it:
After posting it on another board, someone pointed out that the bridge pickup might be one of the quite rare SH-9 Silverbird (the neck turned out to be the original Ibanez pickup minus the gold cover). I emailed Seymour Duncan about it and though they could confirm that it was indeed a Silverbird, the fact that it was written 9NJ instead of 9BJ was suggesting that it might actually be a neck pickup. I didn't cared enough to verify it until a couple of time ago when someone sent me a link to a thread on this board where someone was selling the a Silverbird pickup. More interestingly, there's was a link to an article in that thread that actually used a picture of my guitar as the banner picture
http://darthphineas.com/2017/06/seymour-duncan-silverbird/
I decided to finally take some DC reading of the pickups to compare it to the value of the one in this article and the results are the following:
Serie:
Splitted coil (other was reading 4.58k IIRC):
So here it is, one of the very, very few neck Silverbird to ever been produced. Might try to find a bridge to go along and have maybe the only guitar in the world with a complete set of Silverbird, just for the kick.
Cheers!
About a year ago, I bought an Ibanez RS1010SL (Steve Lukather signature) guitar because I liked the look of it and I fancied a 21 frets guitar. The guy selling it said in the add that both pickups were changed to Seymour Duncan though he didn't knew which one they were as he bought it like that. Here what it looked like as I got it:
After posting it on another board, someone pointed out that the bridge pickup might be one of the quite rare SH-9 Silverbird (the neck turned out to be the original Ibanez pickup minus the gold cover). I emailed Seymour Duncan about it and though they could confirm that it was indeed a Silverbird, the fact that it was written 9NJ instead of 9BJ was suggesting that it might actually be a neck pickup. I didn't cared enough to verify it until a couple of time ago when someone sent me a link to a thread on this board where someone was selling the a Silverbird pickup. More interestingly, there's was a link to an article in that thread that actually used a picture of my guitar as the banner picture
http://darthphineas.com/2017/06/seymour-duncan-silverbird/
I decided to finally take some DC reading of the pickups to compare it to the value of the one in this article and the results are the following:
Serie:
Splitted coil (other was reading 4.58k IIRC):
So here it is, one of the very, very few neck Silverbird to ever been produced. Might try to find a bridge to go along and have maybe the only guitar in the world with a complete set of Silverbird, just for the kick.
Cheers!
