teleharmonium
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I just took delivery of a '66 (I think) SFIII special, in "ebony" which is now faded to green. I'm pretty happy with it, but I was surprised that there are two different types of pickups on it. The bridge pickup is the usual Dynasonic type with a white face. The neck pickup also appears to be an old DeArmond, but it has only a single row of what appear to be flat top, larger screws as the adjustable polepieces. What struck me about this pickup, is that the white top area inside the mounting ring, is not flat, it is a little bit beveled so that it is taller in the center.
So, my two questions are - did Guild ever mismatch pickups at the factory, or should I conclude that one of these was replaced ? And, is the neck pickup a different type than the ones on Duane Eddy's original guitar, which IIRC have smaller adjustment screws and appear to have a flat white surface ?
A little later, I'll pull it out to examine the bottom. Maybe I can get some pics posted here of the neck pickup and the cutout in the top in hopes of IDing the pickup and determining originality. I haven't heard it yet, and if it sounds good, I'll leave it in, but I would still like to know whatever I can about the pickup since I am into DeArmonds.
Otherwise, the headstock repair is well done and stable, and harder to see than it looked like in the auction pics, and everything else seems pretty good too. I'll just need to get the frets polished and the lowest few frets crowned, and straplocks installed. I'm pretty excited to have it in the stable, the Bigsby works great with the aluminum Bigsby bridge and the whole thing looks really cool.
So, my two questions are - did Guild ever mismatch pickups at the factory, or should I conclude that one of these was replaced ? And, is the neck pickup a different type than the ones on Duane Eddy's original guitar, which IIRC have smaller adjustment screws and appear to have a flat white surface ?
A little later, I'll pull it out to examine the bottom. Maybe I can get some pics posted here of the neck pickup and the cutout in the top in hopes of IDing the pickup and determining originality. I haven't heard it yet, and if it sounds good, I'll leave it in, but I would still like to know whatever I can about the pickup since I am into DeArmonds.
Otherwise, the headstock repair is well done and stable, and harder to see than it looked like in the auction pics, and everything else seems pretty good too. I'll just need to get the frets polished and the lowest few frets crowned, and straplocks installed. I'm pretty excited to have it in the stable, the Bigsby works great with the aluminum Bigsby bridge and the whole thing looks really cool.