Gibson Dirty fingers

[Mystic]

Any one have the specs on one of these? I know it has a ceramic magnet and 4 conductor lead. Output of each coil? size of wire?

[Satamax]

Any one have the specs on one of these? I know it has a ceramic magnet and 4 conductor lead. Output of each coil? size of wire?

I'm not sure, but i seem to recall that it was about 16KΩ fwiw

[ake]

It has 3 magnets

[ake]

http://www.guitarjonesusa.com/catalo...roducts_id=477

[Luijo]

Out of the Donald Brosnac book:
"Gibson's Dirty Fingers pickup has dual exposed black coil forms, twelve gold plated screw type pole pieces, and copper grounding tape around the coils.
This pickup has an inductance of 8.6 henries, d.c. resistance of 16K ohms, and a resonant peak at 6K Hz."
This same book states that it is the Gibson Super Humbucker that has three magnets, but no word on wire size of any of the pickups.
I let one of those Dirty Fingers PU slip by a couple of years ago, now I'm sorry. And it was a gift...to boot!!

[ake]

I replased one p-u in a gibson Lee Ritenour modell many years ago .What i remember it had 3 magnets (sorry for bad english I am from sweden)

[Mystic]

I saw the picture with the copper tape wrap. I might just have to buy one and disect it.

[Luijo]

Ake, did it have a cover or not?
Your English is fine with me.

[David Schwab]

I sold a set of the original DirtyFingers on eBay some months back. They had gold covers and were potted with epoxy.

They weren't the Super Humbuckers, because they had the adjustable poles. They came out of a Gibson ES-347. They had a coil cut lead too.

Brosnac has some of his details wrong, as you can see in the web page with the same guitar and pickups.

http://www.zen-pharaohs.com/guitars/Gibson/es347.htm

They were great sounding pickups, but they hummed a bit, so I sold them.

I believe they were 16K.

[Mystic]

I had someone who told me "I want a pickup that sounds like A Gibson Dirty Fingers" so I thought I should look at one and see what makes it tick. I bought one off of ebay to disect. I'm curious about the copper tape and how it's assembled. I'm not out to copy one but I might get some ideas from taking one appart.

[David Schwab]

I had someone who told me "I want a pickup that sounds like A Gibson Dirty Fingers" so I thought I should look at one and see what makes it tick. I bought one off of ebay to disect. I'm curious about the copper tape and how it's assembled. I'm not out to copy one but I might get some ideas from taking one appart.

If you want to hear what one sounds like... I used one in the bridge position on a Charvel strat body with a tele neck thing I threw together...

You can hear it in all the guitar parts... I particularly liked the lead tone...

dirty fingers clip

[ake]

Ake, did it have a cover or not?
Your English is fine with me.

It had no cover Ake

[Luijo]

Ake, do you remember if it had 12 screw polepieces or the usual six?
I wonder if the new DFs have the same sound as the originals, that would make a few people I know happy...

[Mystic]

Yesw the new ones have 12 screws (no slugs). Everything I've read (from those who have heard them) says they sound just like the old ones, exept with a 4 wire lead.

[Mystic]

here's what came in the mail today: 15.4K....Let the Disecting begin.....