Changing Pickups and Price

Dinner Bell · Jul 22, 2019

Dear TL Forum,

I'm looking to sell my R7 Reissue (2011) Goldtop VOS at the moment but upon purchase I changed the pickups to Slash's Alnico II Pro (Seymour Duncan) set because the original Burstbuckers sounded too thin. My question is, will this pickup change reduce the price of the guitar? I still have the original VOS Burstbuckers with the aged covers, and this is the only pickup change the guitar has gone through.

Thank you.

Dinner Bell

J T · Jul 22, 2019

Probably slightly because the solder joints were broken. But you are not talking about vintage or high value guitar so a prospective buyer may overlook that.

Dinner Bell · Jul 22, 2019

Thank you for your response. Basically, I'm trying to decide whether to list the guitar as is (with the Slash pickups installed) and just include the original Burstbuckers in the case, or change the pickups back and sell it like it was originally.

Tim Plains · Jul 22, 2019

The Duncans don't really add any value and, in my opinion, you'd basically be giving them away if you included the original Burstbuckers. I would either return it to stock and sell the Duncans separately, or sell the guitar without the BBs and sell those separately.

latestarter · Jul 22, 2019

Tim Plains said:
The Duncans don't really add any value and, in my opinion, you'd basically be giving them away if you included the original Burstbuckers. I would either return it to stock and sell the Duncans separately, or sell the guitar without the BBs and sell those separately.

What he said!

TheArchitect · Jul 25, 2019

J T said:
Probably slightly because the solder joints were broken. But you are not talking about vintage or high value guitar so a prospective buyer may overlook that.

No one will care about a solder joint on such a guitar. The Duncan's won't hurt it's value but they won't add any really either.

TheArchitect · Jul 25, 2019

J T said:
Probably slightly because the solder joints were broken. But you are not talking about vintage or high value guitar so a prospective buyer may overlook that.

No one will care about a solder joint on such a guitar. The Duncan's won't hurt it's value but they won't add any really either.

mdubya · Jul 25, 2019

If the guitar had the original pickups with it, I wouldn't be bothered one bit.

However, I might need to account for the cost of returning the guitar to original. Not a fan of Duncans or Slash.

Changing Pickups and Price

Dinner Bell

New member

J T

Well-known member

Dinner Bell

New member

Tim Plains

Active member

latestarter

Well-known member

TheArchitect

Member

TheArchitect

Member

mdubya

Well-known member