What humbuckers are these ?

McDube

McDube

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I just got these i today. The guy I got them from doesn't know what guitar they came out of; he got a 'bag full' of pups for a few bucks. He believes them to be from an Epiphone.

The F and R marks are very similar to those I have found on the baseplate of my Ibanez Infinities. But then again, if Ibanez buys some junk and labels them ACH, and Epiphone buys the same junk and labels them differently, the marks could be the same, too...
The 'R' marked pup is F-spaced, by the way.

They're non-splittable. The neck (F marked) measures 8.10k, the bridge (R marked) 9.28k. Of course these values may have dropped over time.
The ACH1 neck goes for 8k, so that could be about right. But the ACH2 bridge model measures about 16k, so that isn't right. And they both are too weak for Powersounds as well (mine were 13k neck and 14k bridge).

And they sound almost exactly like my Ibanez Infinity INF1 and INF2...

Does any of you have any idea ?

Many thanks in advance.

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Re: What humbuckers are these ?

Welcome to the forum.

The pickups are clearly some sort of Korean budget design. LtKojak is the man for spotting the differences between examples of differing time periods and from different factories.
 
Re: What humbuckers are these ?

Those are stock Epiphone pickups.

F - Front (Neck)
R - Rear (Bridge)

Resistance is not always a good indicator of tone or output.
 
Re: What humbuckers are these ?

They're cheap Korean OEM p'ups used by several makers, being Epiphone one of them.

I think those are the ones used in the late '80s to mid '90s period.

In my fifteen years moonlighting as a guitar tech, most of the work I've done to my customers' been replacing those p'ups and the guitar's harness as well, to otherwise good, playable instruments.

HTH,
 
Re: What humbuckers are these ?

For what it's worth, the Epi humbuckers that I removed look just like those except that the two holes, on opposite corners, are oblong rather than round. The two holes on my GFS humbuckers are round like those.
 
Re: What humbuckers are these ?

LtKojak said:
They're cheap Korean OEM p'ups used by several makers, being Epiphone one of them.
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HTH,
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Hence why I saw pics of them in/from a Fenix Les Paul.

Funkfingers said:
Brown and sticky, huh?
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Indeed...

Luckily I've only bought them (cheap of course) for practicing the craft of magnet swapping and hybridizing pickups.
I don't want to mess up a perfectly fine Seymour Duncan when I can do that to cheap Korean sh!t :naughty:
 
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