The most expensive production pickups.

[B2D]

Just as a curiosity, what's the most expensive single production pickup that you've seen or know of? I'm not talking about pickups from vintage LPs or Strats and the like, just an obscenely expensive production model.

I hear the Tom Holmes pickups are pretty ridiculous in the pricing dept.

 

[jeremy]

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i dont think those silly prices are from him, i think they are ebay prices

 

[Got_tone?]

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IMO, the pearly gates is most expensive production duncan. They're like what $90+ new? $40 more gets you a antiquity which is pretty much a custom shop p'up.

 

[easyrider66689]

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Bare Knuckles

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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The TH might be the most expensive ones I know of...I only know of one place to buy new Holmes pickups in the states and they are $800 a set.

 

[tone4days]

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arent WCRs pretty up there? - pretty sure they can go for over $300 a set new

and kinmans?

and not sure what the current status of bardens are ... for a while they were getting CRAZY money

 

[woemoejack]

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i've seen a set of Joe Bardens go for $500 plus through a dealer, but highest average price for any company i believe is Bare Knuckle... i dont think they may a set under $300

 

[tc]

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Taku Sakashta's (spelling?) work isn't cheap I'm sure.

I'll dig up some prices.

BTW, Sakashta, BareKnuckle, Fralin, Lollar, etc aren't production though. I just said Takashta because somebody mentioned Holmes and Bareknuckle so I just went with it.

 

[d1dsj]

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Ref Bareknuckle pick ups, they are hand built so equivalent to custom shop pick ups. If you order direct you can specify pretty much anything you want including how "aged" you want your covers if that's your thing.

 

[Elfunkenstein]

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Don't forget, Bare Knuckles are listed in pounds, so they're even more expensive than they seem to us American folk.

 

[JOLLY]

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The TH might be the most expensive ones I know of...I only know of one place to buy new Holmes pickups in the states and they are $800 a set.

That's just plain crazy.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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My guitar teacher has a set of handwired joe bardens by joe barden.

I wonder how much those would be worth.

 

[LtKojak]

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Taku Sakashta's (spelling?) work isn't cheap I'm sure..

Taku doesn't make p'ups. He uses Jim Rolph p'ups on his instruments.

 

[Dirtbagg]

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That's just plain crazy.

:eyecrazy:
I agree, I was going to have a custom set made with Seymour Duncan, the one I made at the SDUGD, and they were going to charge me $120. which is still reasonable.

 

[Big Mike Blues]

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Production gets to be a slippery slope.
Wagner, wolfetone, lollar etc aren't exactly production like most duncans are.
At a certain point the law of diminishing returns kicks in.

My favorites are SD and WCR.

But I could probably do everything I ever needed with the grand ol' Duncan 59s

 

[Brown Note]

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Here in europeland we pay around 90-140€ per standard pickup. That's roughly $120-200 so Bare Knuckles aren't any more expesive than regular duncans or dimarzios!

 

[Uk Ant]

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Here in europeland we pay around 90-140€ per standard pickup. That's roughly $120-200 so Bare Knuckles aren't any more expesive than regular duncans or dimarzios!

If you're being charged 90 euro's for SD's ya being done
Obviously we get charged more for american made stuff than those of you in the colonies but you can get new SD's in the UK from £60 and then up. Bareknuckles, which are made in the uk, start at £90, possibly a little less from some where like hotrox

 

[B2D]

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I forgot about Bardens. Yeah, there mucho $$ but boy howdy do they sound crazy good.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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Hmm are Lungren considered production?
They make some of the most expensive 7 and 8 string pickups out there

 

[tc]

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Taku doesn't make p'ups. He uses Jim Rolph p'ups on his instruments.

Wanna bet?

http://www.sakashtaguitars.com/sgw_handwired_pickups.html

I found a post in the Gear Page...$130 to $160, all depending on covers/no covers, aged/not aged, etc.

That's actually pretty cheap considering the price I dug up for his Noupaul was around $8200.