pitbull standard pickup

hey guys, was just wondering if anyone has ever used a pitbull guitars standard pickup (the stock ones, not entwistle, wudtone or tonerider pickups) in another guitar? for example, when I got my LPA-1 kit I had a set of EMGs (81, 85 if you were interested) in the kit, so I never used the stock pickups, but on saturday I bought a guitar (japanese made Daion performer) and the bridge pickup absolutely sucked (it was extremely corroded and the guitar was probably kept in a basement most of it's life) so I replaced it with the bridge/red wire humbucker that came with my LPA-1 kit, now it absolutely roars, has anyone else had this experience? i'm keen to know, pics related, the guitar (I added the stripes) and the original humbucker (now a fridge magnet)

Nice Duke! I have a few stock pickups lying around here actually. I really should make use of them if your experiences are anything to go by. Thanks for the heads up.

cheers,
Gav.

hey the Duke, I've found the standard LP pups have a pretty good sound, good work

it turned a sad neglected guitar that cost $100 into a van halen machine, they are really great, also has anyone seen that type of tremolo before? because it's definitely not a standard system

can't really see the trem Duke, please post some better close ups. Looks like a bolt is holding the lock for the high E string !

yeah wokka, I had to replace it with a different bolt as the orignal hole for the fine tuner screww was almost completely stripped so I found a bigger screw, retapped the hole and put that in there. The guitar was super rough when I got it but I've done a a lot of work on it, replaced the tuners with gold locking ones, retapped the holes on the locking nut to acommodate bigger, better screws, made a bar for the tremolo, then tapped the hole for the tremolo as I wouldn't have been able to find an original and did the stripes, after all that work it's amazing and plays better than my epi explorer

a beat up stripey guitar, some guy called Eddie made one of those and seemed to do OK. Nice work Duke

yeah I was going for that eddie kinda vibe, cheers man

Duke - I've mainly built basses, but I do like the standard pups. I've recently started upgrading pups in my new axes as I've got to the point where my wife is asking where are we going to put these guitars so I figured that I'd stop buying as many, trick some out a little and see what the difference is.

has anyone measured one of these - what are the standard PBG Humbucker specs?

I've tested the resistance of LP pups Stan, from memory bridge was between 8-9k ohms and neck was about 7-8k ohms.
I'll try and remember to check next time I got the cover off one

cheers Wokka, that seems pretty standard then.

yeah Overlord don't quote me that is going on memory. Pretty sure they are around that region so not overwound or superhot but enough grunt to sound pretty good for stockys

When I did the 4-wire mod and magnet upgrade (here) I measured a couple of sets of stock PBG humbuckers first to get a baseline. The Bridge pups were ~11.1K and the Necks were ~10.7K (ended up at 11.5K and 11.2K respectively after the magnet swap).

Just looked at my pups, about the same as Weirdy's measurements, bridge was ~11.3k and neck was ~10.5k and they sound pretty grunty to me!

nice one Weirdy, I totally forgot the figures and they are quite a high resistance pup

I love my stockie singles in my STA. Wouldn't even think about changing them.

Just wanting to mention. Daion Performers should be pretty decent guitars. I have a Daion Performer P Bass that I picked up for $80 and it plays very nicely.

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Just wanting to mention. Daion Performers should be pretty decent guitars. I have a Daion Performer P Bass that I picked up for $80 and it plays very nicely.

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Yeah, '80s Japanese Fender copies like Daions and (especially) Profiles were fantastic. '80s Profile Strats and Teles were better than Fenders guitars we could buy in Australia at the time at half the price.

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Just looked at my pups, about the same as Weirdy's measurements, bridge was ~11.3k and neck was ~10.5k and they sound pretty grunty to me!

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cheers Callum!

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Originally Posted by wokkaboy

yeah Overlord don't quote me that is going on memory. Pretty sure they are around that region so not overwound or superhot but enough grunt to sound pretty good for stockys

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Thankyou O1, they might be better than the ones in my Epi, haha. O2 out....