Unknown humbuckers, info request

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Perry go round

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Hi,
I am negociating a swap on 2 humbuckers, but the owner doesn´t have a lot of information on them. I would like to know something more about them. Anything you can tell me would be wellcomed.
To be more specific, the thing that worries me the most is about the colour code on the cables. I am afraid of not knowing which cable corresponds where and making a mess if I take them and try to install them on my guitar (they would go in a project guitar).
The owner says they are Alnico V, Bridge = 16,30 k and Neck = 9,5 k.
Here are the pics he sent me:
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Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

Look like some kind of Dimarzio pickup to me. Maybe something out of a mid level ibanez.


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Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

They look cheap/chinese. I've seen similar pickups on eBay.

Same baseplate as these. Musiclilly and other generic eBay brands look similar, and have hex poles. My guess is, barely any wraps of wire around the bobbin? Very high guage wire to get to that resistance?
 
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Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

Import inexpensive pickups.

Dimarzios would say so on the baseplate and/or be logo'ed on the bobbins, even for their inexpensive OEM type pickups.

Doesn't mean they will sound bad- I had some old SuperD copies by Gotoh in a 1980s BC RICH that were great.
 
Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

What is the trade for.....I wouldn't be trading anything else but cheap pickups too.
 
Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

Thanks for your replies.
He was offering those in exchange for an used JB. According to what I am reading, it doesn´t seem to worth it.
 
Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

Yeah, I wouldn't think it is. Those look like the cheap pickups I have in a drawer, even down to the stamped N & B. I didn't like the way they sounded.
 
Re: Unknown humbuckers, info request

The only way to know for sure if they would be worth it is if you were able to try them out yourself. There's the off chance that they could be awesome in that they're exactly what you're looking for, and you've got a drawer full of JBs. But my guess, like the others, is that would be a big fat 'nope'.
 
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