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Epiphone - PAFs?

kidmo

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Did any Epiphones ever have PAF pickups? Just wonderin, never heard anything about it but that doesn't mean it didn't happen...:hmm
Why wouldn't Gibson share the love?
 
kidmo

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Brown Recluse said:
There are Epiphone mini-humbucking pickups with PAF stickers.
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True. I think the first Epi with P90's was the Casino round bout 61? And most of the other models went humbuckerish in the seventies. Was just wondering if it was a conscientious decision by Gibson to not put full size humbuckers in Epi's.
 
Guitar Whiskey

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Having different humbucker PUP's than Gibson was part of their brand identity. The 1959 Sheraton had mini humbucker PAF's.
 
Tom Wittrock

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kidmo said:
True. I think the first Epi with P90's was the Casino round bout 61? And most of the other models went humbuckerish in the seventies. Was just wondering if it was a conscientious decision by Gibson to not put full size humbuckers in Epi's.
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Several models came out with P-90s at roughly the same time.

And, it must have been a 'conscientious decision' to use mini's. How else could you explain it? :wah
 
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Guitar Whiskey said:
Having different humbucker PUP's than Gibson was part of their brand identity. The 1959 Sheraton had mini humbucker PAF's.
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A few people have done some research & it appears that Sheratons had NY pickups until at least mid-late 1960. :hmm
 
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my '61 Epi Crestwood Custom (super rare with factory stop tailpiece, bikini logo and gold plating) had stickered mini-PAFs as did my '62 and '63 model year Sheraton and two Rivieras!
 
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Epiphone PAF 60-62
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kidmo

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1949 Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent. Obviously single coil in a double coil form factor. Makes you wonder if Seth saw that and thought, hmmm, what if we put two coils side by side :hmm


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Tom Wittrock

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kidmo said:
1949 Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent. Obviously single coil in a double coil form factor. Makes you wonder if Seth saw that and thought, hmmm, what if we put two coils side by side :hmm


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Who made those pickups?
 
Tom Wittrock

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Eric Ernest's pickups [shown above] are completely different than those I asked about.
 
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