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Couldn't you just call them double whites? Or do you have to call them anything at all. Hell, just get Jon to a Throbak with coil tapping capability.
Jimmy Page #2 reissue at NAMM
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Ive been to poland and in a dark and guitarless place......
but not any more ..............
TL
is back and playing beter then ever.....:salude
and the drive the spark is back I WANTS a page #2 ya I know I have plenty but theres always room for JELLO!!!!!!
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Todd you crazy nut, this place needed your Humor back. Hope you are doing well, and the band thangy went great. Poland, interesting place to visit.
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Welcome back Todd! LPF not the same without you.:salude
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Great to have you back, Todd! :dude: :dude: :salude :salude
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If the original #2 never had an exposed double black, then I'd just put a pickup cover on it to make it look more realistic, legitimately.
Having it exposed doesn't represent the original is more of a reminder of DiMarzio and that whole story. Almost like free advertising for them. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
Having it exposed doesn't represent the original is more of a reminder of DiMarzio and that whole story. Almost like free advertising for them. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
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If the original #2 never had an exposed double black, then I'd just put a pickup cover on it to make it look more realistic, legitimately.
Having it exposed doesn't represent the original is more of a reminder of DiMarzio and that whole story. Almost like free advertising for them. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.
Agreed and good idea. Cover the black one since that is all we have to work with aside from a new pickup. Plus, the black one probably has solder on the sides where they made it look like it used to have a pickup cover (or maybe they put a cover on & removed it)........at least, that is the way my aged Page #1 looks on the bridge pup. But if I do that, wouldn't I need to do the same to my #1 if I have them side by side so that they will look like the above pic?
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I wonder if someone could make a vinyl "cling" type overlay (punched out for the polepieces, etc.) that you could place over the top of the black bobbins on the pickup?
I realize you could change pickups to one with a white bobbin; but I would guess lots of peeps want to keep these guitars stock.
I realize you could change pickups to one with a white bobbin; but I would guess lots of peeps want to keep these guitars stock.
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Agreed and good idea. Cover the black one since that is all we have to work with aside from a new pickup. Plus, the black one probably has solder on the sides where they made it look like it used to have a pickup cover (or maybe they put a cover on & removed it)........at least, that is the way my aged Page #1 looks on the bridge pup. But if I do that, wouldn't I need to do the same to my #1 if I have them side by side so that they will look like the above pic?
You'd have to get a chrome cover for #1.
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i think it is nickel
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I'd heard it was chrome. The pickup in that picture is the T-top that replaced the double-white PAF, and I think it came with a chrome plated cover. I could be wrong though.
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There was a post in the Sunburst Pub about somebody offering something just like that - plastic covers for your pickup bobbins to make them different colors.
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All 4 pickup covers in that picture look to be nickel to my eyes as they have the typical milky looking aging to them. A chrome cover doesn't age and would still look perfectly shiny, which that one does not.
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"I stand corrected", said the man in the orthopedic shoes.
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FWIW, regardless of how it looks in that photo, it's well documented that when #1's bridge pup was replaced the new pup had indeed a chrome cover, not nickle. There are other photos out there where the visuals are clearer.
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The Nov 1982 issue of Guitar Heroes (short lived UK mag) ran a feature on Page's guitars - the author went to Page's house & Tim Marten (Page's tech at the time) showed him the collection. The author was allowed to have all of these guitars in his hands. This feature is the one that 80% of the info that circulates on Page's guitars is originally taken from. One of nthe things that the author noticed & commented on, whilst being in the same room as the guitar, in the company of Page's tech, was that the bridge pickup cover was chrome & didn't match the nickle cover on the neck pickup.
It's not a very important point, I mean who really cares what it was made of, but with that kind of provenance on the info there's little reason to doubt it.
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It's not a very important point, I mean who really cares what it was made of, but with that kind of provenance on the info there's little reason to doubt it.
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Yes, those look like the original pickups in that picture, making them nickel. I think he is saying that the 1970s patent pickup that replaced it (and SD pickup that replaced that one) came with a chrome cover........right?