T Top or Shaw? What is it?

Pdx · Feb 3, 2019

I found this in a cheap guitar a few weeks ago. The cover had not been off before. It seems to have the hallmarks of a T-Shaw. I know that the UOA5 became the magnet of production, but it has also been stated by others that Shaw used A2’s and A5’s before choosing a thicker UOA5. It sounds great in the bridge of a semi hollow.

T Top bobbins
white plastic spacers
7.5k

latestarter · Feb 3, 2019

Has all the markings of a Shaw. Good pickups.

Zentar · Feb 3, 2019

Yea that is a T Shaw. That ink stamped number is Pamela Sue Anderson's old fone number. Dead give away

Hamerfan · Feb 24, 2019

Pre Shaws or T Shaws. For the first months they is used up old parts until May/June 1980 when the new Shaw bobbins arrived and the new rubber stamps were used.

T Top or Shaw? What is it?

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