Orville By Gibson pickup question?

GPCarpenter · Mar 25, 2007

Anyone have any idea what kind of pickups these are and how they sound? I've never seen Gibson pickups with a circuit board on the bottom.

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140093878841&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

The batlord · Mar 25, 2007

Gibson

villager · Mar 26, 2007

they were bill lawrence designed when he worked at Gibson, they were only put in for about a year beween the pat no and the 57 classic periods..circa 90/91...

they sound ok.

OrvilleBoy · Apr 1, 2007

guys

staying on the topic of pickups. Some Orville guitars seem to have double-cream colored pickups. Could these be Dimarzio's? I thought Dimarzio had the double-cream color scheme patented...

thanks.

villager · Apr 1, 2007

i dont think the japanese bothered to much about US patent infringement...the orville pickups are made by gotoh i think...

big-ace · Apr 3, 2007

villager said:
i dont think the japanese bothered to much about US patent infringement...

you might be correct on that. i mean they only copied fenders and gibsons, till the lawsuit threats were too much. a good f@#k you, to the big american companies i think.

20 century boy · Apr 3, 2007

big-ace said:
villager said:

i dont think the japanese bothered to much about US patent infringement...

Click to expand...

you might be correct on that. i mean they only copied fenders and gibsons, till the lawsuit threats were too much. a good f@#k you, to the big american companies i think.

ONly Fender and Gibson?

What about Gretsch, Ampeg, Rickenbacker,etc..., etc...

At first was mostly because the japanese customers couldn't afford the american models, a work of love in a way. Those models were made for the japanese customers ONLY. SOme companies started to ask the japanese factories to work for them. Now some americans collect those japanese market replicas...
There's as much links with actual Gibsons and 50's Gibsons than with Tokai gibson copies and 50's Gibsons ( different company, different factory, different people). It's just businessmen protecting a trade mark.Let's not forget that by the start of the 80's Ibanez was making original models. Those models changed the guitar market and made fender and Gibson look old. The japanese makers still improve and create new models every years. The american makers live on their history.

big-ace · Apr 3, 2007

this site definitely has a better vibe than the USA Les Paul forum site. no arrogent 'USA is the best' going on ( no offence to any American friends out there reading)

Innadaze · Apr 3, 2007

big-ace said:
this site definitely has a better vibe than the USA Les Paul forum site. no arrogent 'USA is the best' going on ( no offence to any American friends out there reading)

No offense taken! My experience is that when it comes to guitars, even though I've got quite a few Americans, 'USA is the best' hasn't been necessarily so for awhile now....

OrvilleBoy · Apr 9, 2007

keeping the thread alive....

Do ObG Les Paul Juniors have any markings on the back of its p90 that say Gibson, or Japan, or Gotoh, or anything?

i'm thinking of buying a ObG P90 on ebay but I don't know what it is for sure...

just to double check with you guys

read on...

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Question for item #130098126887 - ORVILLE by GIBSON STOCK P-90(BRIDGE)PICK-UP JR JUNIOR

Hello Inny,

Thank you for your interest.

As far as markings-because this is the very rare EARLY version(sounds
better than the later ones due to better material,etc)-it does not have any
markings,but this came out of a "Orville By Gibson" Les Paul JR guitar.

Please dont worry-check my EXCELLENT feedback.

You will not be disappointed! This P-90 sounds INCREDIBLE...

And the price-VERY REASONABLE.Even new pick-ups cost $100.00 or more!

Thank you.

Mathew

japanstrat · Apr 9, 2007

All the Orville pickups I've seen including my own have no markings on the back of the pickups at all.
All the OBG pickups I've seen have markings or a circuit on the back.
But I've only seen humbuckers and not P-90's.
The bridges etc that I've seen from OBG's and Orvilles have Gotoh on them so I assume the unmarked Orville pickups are Gotoh's with no markings on them and I've also read that they are Gotoh's on Japanese bbs's.

20 century boy · Apr 10, 2007

the ebay pick up is an Orville one if I remember well. NOt "Orville by Gibson".

OrvilleBoy · Apr 10, 2007

20 century boy said:
the ebay pick up is an Orville one if I remember well. NOt "Orville by Gibson".

oh wow... is that so???

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130098126887&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com.au%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D130098126887%26fvi%3D1

the above is a link to the item... hopefully he's not changed the name of the item to ObG?

I remember seeing a few ObG juniors on this board... help please!!!

thanx a lot guys.

20 century boy · Apr 10, 2007

OK ObG then. But that seller sold an Orville LP Jr a few weeks ago and it was sold as an Orville by Gibson so...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORVILLE-by-GIBSON-LES-PAUL-JR-JUNIOR-SUPER-CLEAN_W0QQitemZ130092905067QQihZ003QQcategoryZ33040QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

For him it makes no differences.

OrvilleBoy · Apr 10, 2007

20 century boy said:
OK ObG then. But that seller sold an Orville LP Jr a few weeks ago and it was sold as an Orville by Gibson so...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ORVILLE-by-GIBSON-LES-PAUL-JR-JUNIOR-SUPER-CLEAN_W0QQitemZ130092905067QQihZ003QQcategoryZ33040QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

For him it makes no differences.

lol haha well there's that one solved. thanks a lot.

shout out to everyone to to be careful, huh?

i guess some people don't know the difference between O and ObG.

20 century boy · Apr 10, 2007

I think he knows. :wink:

He sells some Mij regularly so he must be aware of the difference.

Innadaze · Apr 10, 2007

I've got four OBG Orville by Gibson LP JRs. They all sound great but I've never bothered to see what the pickups were.

I'll try to remember to take a look.

villager · Apr 10, 2007

ObG = Gibson
Orville = Japanese

OrvilleBoy · Apr 12, 2007

Innadaze said:
I've got four OBG Orville by Gibson LP JRs. They all sound great but I've never bothered to see what the pickups were.

I'll try to remember to take a look.

haha yes.... u and ur OBGs....

dont worry though, i think i'll just go buy a SD Antiquite or a real vintage gibson p90 since i like the worn out look!

Guitargoblin · Apr 16, 2007

I wouldn't bother with an Antiquity if I were you. Sound warm but dull IMO. They do look cool though

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