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Originally posted by greenfingers
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I really like how he keeps saying "Flush Pole Pieces". Well, the A is. "The winning bidder will be transported back to 1959 to see first hand what a 1959 Esquire Pickup looks like new and get the added bonus of what it sounded like as well." Then we'll bring them back and show them this!
Maybe it's just me, but I get anal glaucoma (I can't see my ass shipping this) about the looks of my pickups.Comment
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Originally posted by Spence View Post
nice. Sounds like Australian pickup?. It sure looks like Mick Dundee's knife has been used on the bottom of that baseplate.
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I used to have those as a kid!Originally posted by Spence View PostIt would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein
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No, you missed the best part! This is NOT a copy of a real 1959 Esquire pickup... this is a copy of the Fender Custom Shop REISSUE! Apparently they are saying people are stupid enough to have made those REISSUE pickups worth thousands of dollars, so this is a COPY OF A COPY!Originally posted by chevalij View Post
That's why they said they bought a relic. They paid thousands of dollars for a piss poor copy made by Fender so they could copy it!
So it was the custom shop that got it wrong, and this joker is just copying the incorrect copy. He would have been better off buying one of Don's pickups and copying that (or a Duncan or Stich copy).
This reminds me of some of the Gibson LP reissues where they didn't have a real guitar to copy, so they went from photos, and got the curves all wrong!
The wrong people are running these companies.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein
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The wire angle at the hookup looks like to me the white wire is the end of the wind and the black is the start. Also I bet you can put a meter on 1 wire and 1 on the magnets on the ends and get a reading. Look at the top almost coming off the end magnets. I'd love to see the coil with no wrapping of the string on it
If I had a spare 45.00 i'd buy it and take it apart step by step and take pictures and post them here.
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I would hope they bought the whole guitar for 'thousands' and not just a RI pickup.
They mature whisky in wooden barrels...maybe this is just maturing string. Were your cupboards previously used to mature some cheap, shitty string first? If not then...well you probably know where that's going. I'll have the 18yr...smoky and peaty as you can get it.Last year I put a large ball of string in a pine cupboard to keep it away from Number 1 son. I forgot all about it but found it last week. It's gone a straw colour all the way through. I'm wondering if it's turned colour as a result of being in a warm pine environment. In any case, another batch is in that cupboard now.
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You would hope so but...Originally posted by MattT View Post
Morons!Let us first start off by saying how extremely rare the 1959 Esquire Relic Tele Bridge pickup is. Fender custom shop Reissued only 100 of the 1959 Esquire Relic LTD Tele guitar. Out of those 100 guitars you might find a hand full that have stripped them for parts. The point is if you ever come across a 1959 Esquire Tele Bridge pickup you better open your wallet wide because you are not the only one looking for them.We bought an original 1959 Esquire Relic Tele Bridge [pickup] for a couple for thousand for reference.
I guess if they ever came across a real 1959 Esquire Tele Bridge pickup they wouldn't know it from the "relic" copy!
I think the whole vintage and pseudo vintage guitar collectors market is just appalling. They have artificially inflated the prices of not only the real thing, but these dumb reissues.
Greed rules the world.It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. — Albert Einstein
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Notably lacking in that story is the monetary unit of which they paid "a couple of thousand" - maybe dongs?Comment
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Cripes, there were all sorts of things maturing in there. Still having nightmares about it.Originally posted by MattT View PostI would hope they bought the whole guitar for 'thousands' and not just a RI pickup.
They mature whisky in wooden barrels...maybe this is just maturing string. Were your cupboards previously used to mature some cheap, shitty string first? If not then...well you probably know where that's going. I'll have the 18yr...smoky and peaty as you can get it.
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It's all starting to make sense now. All the fakes come from England and the pound's not worth a wank anymore.Originally posted by Dave Kerr View Postsigpic Dyed in the woolComment
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