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where do all those PAFs come from...

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Cyphex

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Today pickups are made to be fit in a certain position ie. neck. Was that common in the fifties? :hmm
 
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tomkatf said:
Similar story, I was in a well known LA vintage guitar shop off of Hollywood Blvd. c.1983... a guy walked in with an early Les Paul SG Custom which was bought by the store and quickly stripped of it's PAF's. :dang
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Unfortunately these ones suffer a similar fate as the ES 175s
 
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Cyphex said:
Today pickups are made to be fit in a certain position ie. neck. Was that common in the fifties? :hmm
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No, it wasn't as far as we know. They made a bunch of pickups, put them in boxes, and grabbed 2 or 3 for whatever they were wiring up.

The only caveat would be if they 'wasted' the wire they cut off of the ones in the bridge position, or wired up shorter-lead versions.
 
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