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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:24 am
by ken_swearingen
There is one person that will buy this and it will sell but $400.for a re-issue is ridiculous and so is this.
No pickup is worth $700.or $400.Its the ignorant people who hear the word horseshoe that go all nuts.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:25 am
by rickcrazy
Hmm... Yes, way too expensive. I'd rather keep the $700 and build my own treble pickup.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:20 am
by ricosound
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:38 am
by jwr2
I was wondering if it is really an unmodified 68 horseshoe ... compare to this one ...
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:09 am
by nbvbn
68 Is a transitional year. Three different pickups can appear that year. Some, like the one for sale on eBay, the early type with the thin black plastic top that has the edge raised appear on a very few early 68s. Most others are like the ones in your pictures are greenish with a thicker top. Those can come with the older larger surround or the smaller rectangular surround. Still I have seen very late 68’s with non-horseshoes.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:17 am
by ilan
If I had a '68 4001 with a dead treble pickup, I'd spend $700 to make it perfect again. Simple as that.
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(warning - Fender content).
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:21 am
by kbhag
I think they sound great. I'll bet it sells too.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:44 am
by rickfan60
Jason Lollar can make old horseshoes work again. He is very good at rewinding them and re-gaussing the magnets.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:54 am
by headbanger
It sold to a poster on this thread
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:02 am
by rickaddict
If I had a nice original '68 4001 with a dead pickup, I'd try to get it fixed. If I had one with no pickup or a Bart or something, I'd buy it....but then I'd put it in a box and play the guitar with an under-string pickup.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:24 am
by rickfan60
Nice score Vincent.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:24 am
by s4001
My 68' was old and weak, too. I sent it to Lindy Fralin. Now it's a snarling beast.
...I wish I knew enough to ask what he did to it to make it the way it is. I wish I had an army of them.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:34 am
by rickfan60
Yes, it gets in the way and it rattles a bit but I like the sound of the pickup on my '63. It has some sweet subtlties that none of my other Ricks can produce.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:03 am
by apollo11
Cool shot, Ted!
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:42 am
by dswp
I sold my 68 last year, because the p.u. was replaced. If I had the bass still, I'd buy this in a second..