what mike do i have? :S

[imidian]

i dunno anything about it, except, it's a single coil dont find it anywhere either.. well, instead of 6 holes for the metall-things, it's just one long hole, and the color is black, what more can i say?

please help

 

[tone4days]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

welcome to the forum

are there any letters or numbers on the top or bottom?

can you post a pic of it?

 

[68 lost souls]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Sounds like hes talking about a rails. Did it come in a guitar as standard? What make and model is the guitar?

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

The only pickups that match the physical description that I've seen are the Hot Stack and the pickups that Yamaha used to put into some of their older ('70s ?) axes.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

I was also thinking about the old "Mega-rail" hot-stacks....

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

i got it loose, no guitar or anything

it's only 6 metalthings (as normal) and there are 2 magnets on the backside, 2 small. yellow and black cables, if that's any help

ill try to post a pic later today.

and sorry for my bad english

 

[Zerberus]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

2 magnets on the Backside?... I´m not sure it´s a duncan at all, the yellow wire also bothers me.....

We definitely need pics

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

here's some bad pics, but hopefully good enough

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

damn, they where big lol ;D

 

[More-Gear-Than-Skill]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

One thing's for Shure, that's no mike...

 

[revsorg]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Where did you buy it, and did the seller tell you anything about it?

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

yeah, its a mike (pickup)

i traded an old neck to a guy for 2 emg pickups, and got that one to
no info about it, thats why im here and askin you guys

 

[Zerberus]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Hmmm.... looks to me like a cheap import single coil w/ a Seymour Duncan Cover... I´m serious

Do you have a mutlimeter so you can check the resistance?? W/ the resistance we can scheck on the pickups in that range and narrow it down... but I´m pretty sure that´s no Duncan

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

it's a duncan, the guy i got it from, got it in a fender strat, mexico, with floyd rosebridge and emg 81&89humbuckers and that one i have now, the mysterious duncan singlecoil he bought the guitar from a swedish musicstore called musikbörsen

 

[Rich_S]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

If I remember correctly, the MIM Fender pickups have black and yellow wires. So, I'm gonna guess it's a MIM Strat pickup with a Duncan Rails cover on it.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

That may well be...

The reasons I think it´s not a Duncan:

1. Wrong wire type: Duncan uses cloth covered wire for almost all of the single coils, this one clearly has plastic or teflon insulation, and looks to be a smaller guage as well....
2. 2 Notches in the baseplate near the wiring eyes: Never seen a Duncan with a notched plate
3. Plastic baseplate: Also never seen one on a Duncan
4. 2 magnets on the bottom: Again, common for Import single coils, and I´ve never seen a duncan single with that setup (though I´m not ruling it out)
5. Wrong cover: the cover is for an older Hot Stack, which has one large bar as a pole... but Duncan singles with poles come with a cover for 6 poles...

It may well be a Duncan, but then it´s an obscure one, likely discontiniued, with the wrong cover ..... Or there´s a single coil I haven´t tried yet, with the wrong cover

 

[imidian]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Rich_S - do you know anything more about those pickups? it was probably a middle pickup

Zerberus - well, i guess you right

 

[Guest]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Read somewhere that Squier pups use 2 magnets like a p90... sure looks like the case.

Why would anyone want to put a SD cover on such a pup is beyond me. Like putting a Gibson sticker in a Slammer guitar.

 

[Rich_S]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Rich_S - do you know anything more about those pickups? it was probably a middle pickup

It's been several months since I had the pickguard off my guitar, but I'm pretty sure that pickup looks like the Tex-Mex Strat middle pickup on my Mexican Tele Nashville. IIRC, that pickup had yellow & black wires, a black plastic base/bobbin, and MIGHT have had two bar magnets (I'm not sure about the magnets.)

Overall, I like the Tex-Mex. It's the only pickup of the three that I didn't replace with a Duncan.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: what mike do i have? :S

Read somewhere that Squier pups use 2 magnets like a p90... sure looks like the case.

Why would anyone want to put a SD cover on such a pup is beyond me. Like putting a Gibson sticker in a Slammer guitar.

the 2 things that pop into my head are:

1. to match up cosmetically with logoed Duncans in a guitar
or
2. to pass it off as a Duncan to the untrained eye....

But again, maybe it really is one.... it would surprise me, though