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So, I'm searching my parts bins looking for a pickup set to put into my Bacchus BLP-STD FM Relic as I had taken out the Dry Z set that I sold on Reverb a year ago that was in the guitar.
I wanted a pickup set with covers that matched the patina on the hardware that is already on the Bacchus.
I decided to use a set of Greco 'Double Trick' pickups that I removed from a 1982 EG many years ago.
The problem however is the covers on the Double Trick set didn't match the patina of the hardware on the Bacchus.
I have covers from a 1980 set of Greco UDs that were perfect so, I decided to do a quick changeout of covers. Easy stuff.
So, I get the original covers off of the Double Trick set and WTF am I looking at?
The bridge pickup has exactly what I'm expecting; a nice silver Alnico magnet.
But the neck pickup has a coal black ceramic/ferrite magnet. WTF?
I looked at both magnets under different lighting conditions and all I'm seeing is one silver magnet and one coal black magnet.
Just another CRAZY 'curve ball' from the MIJs ...................... my head is still spinning ........
I wanted a pickup set with covers that matched the patina on the hardware that is already on the Bacchus.
I decided to use a set of Greco 'Double Trick' pickups that I removed from a 1982 EG many years ago.
The problem however is the covers on the Double Trick set didn't match the patina of the hardware on the Bacchus.
I have covers from a 1980 set of Greco UDs that were perfect so, I decided to do a quick changeout of covers. Easy stuff.
So, I get the original covers off of the Double Trick set and WTF am I looking at?
The bridge pickup has exactly what I'm expecting; a nice silver Alnico magnet.
But the neck pickup has a coal black ceramic/ferrite magnet. WTF?
I looked at both magnets under different lighting conditions and all I'm seeing is one silver magnet and one coal black magnet.
Just another CRAZY 'curve ball' from the MIJs ...................... my head is still spinning ........