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Post subject: Re: Abby pickups in the trash?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:33 pm
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Did she wind the pickups for the SRV Tribute Project? [It has always been maintained that the tone of that mongrel guitar of his [purchased for him by his girfriend at a pawn shop, if got it right], had something to do with the pickups being 'overwound'. A flaw in the quality control of the day, which gave an uneveness to the tone of the guitars built then.] If so, she might have started to acquire that 'magic touch' mystique at that time.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:54 pm
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Did she wind the pickups for the SRV Tribute Project? [It has always been maintained that the tone of that mongrel guitar of his [purchased for him by his girfriend at a pawn shop, if got it right], had something to do with the pickups being 'overwound'. A flaw in the quality control of the day, which gave an uneveness to the tone of the guitars built then.] If so, she might have started to acquire that 'magic touch' mystique at that time.



Hence the birth of the Texas Special?

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:56 pm
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Did she wind the pickups for the SRV Tribute Project? [It has always been maintained that the tone of that mongrel guitar of his [purchased for him by his girfriend at a pawn shop, if got it right], had something to do with the pickups being 'overwound'. A flaw in the quality control of the day, which gave an uneveness to the tone of the guitars built then.] If so, she might have started to acquire that 'magic touch' mystique at that time.



Hence the birth of the Texas Special?


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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:06 pm
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Hence the birth of the Texas Special?


That's the stuff of which legends are often born.

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This just might be, just might be.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:54 pm
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Over the years, I wonder how many Abby pickups ended up in the trash. With Dimarzio and Seymour Duncan replacement pickup craze, and the "boutique" manufacturers, I'm assumming thousands of Abby Pickups were "unknowingly" thrown away. Little did we know....


Hello DB, I'm a little bit wary of tossing any parts of Fender guitars that I've worked on. I have a couple of boxes full of pick-ups pots tuners bridges etc. from my guitars and when I work on other peoples guitars I always clean and bag their old parts and return them with the finished instrument. It makes me feel better you know, waste not want not.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:00 pm
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Did she wind the pickups for the SRV Tribute Project? [It has always been maintained that the tone of that mongrel guitar of his [purchased for him by his girfriend at a pawn shop, if got it right], had something to do with the pickups being 'overwound'. A flaw in the quality control of the day, which gave an uneveness to the tone of the guitars built then.] If so, she might have started to acquire that 'magic touch' mystique at that time.



Hence the birth of the Texas Special?


That's the stuff of which legends are often born.

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So she was just a winder though right?

Do you feel it was her miss haps on the winder that resulted in say the Fat 50 and the Texas Special?
I mean surely there is an engineer setting in an office working out specs.

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Post subject: Re: Abby pickups in the trash?
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:20 pm
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So she was just a winder though right?
Do you feel it was her miss haps on the winder that resulted in say the Fat 50 and the Texas Special? I mean surely there is an engineer setting in an office working out specs.

Neither. She might have been part of a team which reverse engineered the original which yielded two new ones.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:22 pm
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Nobody pays me to think or feel -- I just know what sounds good to my ears.

And of course I enjoy a good mystery yarn now and again.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:26 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
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So she was just a winder though right?
Do you feel it was her miss haps on the winder that resulted in say the Fat 50 and the Texas Special? I mean surely there is an engineer setting in an office working out specs.

Neither. She might have been part of a team which reverse engineered the original which yielded two new ones.



Ok got ya, so they reverse engineered her stuff or the teams stuff from the eras.

Basically there is a lot of that going on with the two guitar company icons.

They are like hey lets figure out how we used to do that lol.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:33 pm
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Ok got ya, so they reverse engineered her stuff or the teams stuff from the eras.They are like hey lets figure out how we used to do that lol.

More like...how does that one differ from its brothers of allegedly the same type and how can we replicate it and/or make it better, I'd say.

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Ok got ya, so they reverse engineered her stuff or the teams stuff from the eras.They are like hey lets figure out how we used to do that lol.

More like...how does that one differ from its brothers of allegedly the same type and how can we replicate it and/or make it better, I'd say.



I noticed Gibson has about 10 different takes on the 57 Classic as well.
490 Burst bucker Custom Bucker 57 Classic all sound pretty much the same.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:00 pm
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+1

The only real difference I ever heard was between the Classic 57 and the Classic 57+.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:04 pm
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The only real difference I ever heard was between the Classic 57 and the Classic 57+.

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I had a guy on the Gibson board ask me if a 57 Classic would sound better than a 490r.
I said its kinda the same thing man lol
That monogram on the base plate doesn't really sound much different than the waterslide decal.
Really.
You try to explain it hey they both ohm it 7.73k and have Alnico 2 bars and maple spacers. Ya know?

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:14 pm
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The best sounding set of humbuckers I own are the stock pickups that came OEM in my '78 LP Standard. The 57 Classics in my Historic Shop re-issues aren't even close.

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:25 pm
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The best sounding set of humbuckers I own are the stock pickups that came OEM in my '78 LP Standard. The 57 Classics in my Historic Shop re-issues aren't even close.

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T tops? I had a set and they sounded so Jimmy page when I was 16 man.
I had a tobacco sunburst standard that turned snot green like a silver burst.
It was the best Les Paul man I traded it at 17 for a mighty mite V body no lie.
What was I thinking? I was like this thing is so ugly I wanna be in style.

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