Re: Captain Beefheart - Nice Gibson Deluxe

Peter Huggins wrote:
The NY Epiphone pickups are not the same as the Gibson Mini-humbuckers.
They have pole pieces on the edge of the pickup rather than the center,
but they are not humbucking. Gibson bought out Epiphone in 1957, but
full scale production didn't really get going until 1959.

Gibson used the Epiphone NY pickups on guitars such as the Century and
Sheraton (hollow body or semi-hollow body thinline) and also the Coronet
and Crestwood (solid bodies with a slab body like the Les Paul Junior)
until they ran out, then adapted the Johnny Smith pickups (which were
nearly the same size) to the Epiphone line (earlier in the production
run, some models also had leftover NY Epiphone necks with a V-shape).

By 1961 all the NY pickups were used up, you just don't see them on any
of the thinline models. A couple years later the JS pickup was modified
for use in the Firebird series..

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Thanks for putting the end to yet another shibboleth, Peter.

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