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But,I still want to know if the original toasters that come with the 325c58 are different(lower output) than the toasters that Rickenbacker uses on their other guitars?

Man, Mitch, you are so, like, focused...

I understand your logic. And I can sympathize to a small degree with your point of view. It just seems like a waste of time and money to essentially graft one guitar onto another guitar body. Unless that is you're a frustrated guitar mechanic and just can't resist hotrodding guitars like auto mechanics do with cars.

I doubt this dude in Mitch's original post actually improved that old Rick 325 any. In fact, I have a niggling little hunch that it has rather quite a characterless sound now.

JimK

Funny you should mention it, Jim...I installed a Niggling "Little Hunch" in one of my guitars and now that baby screams...

The toasters on the now-defunct 325C58 are the 7.4K ohm "scatterwounds". Some enthusiasts have been unwinding them to lower outputs in an attempt to "capture" the late-'50s sound. I can't speak for this mod; it has its admirers and detractors.

The Niggling Little Hunch may scream, but Detractors roar.

This discussion is rapidly dissolving into a pithing contetht...

jingle_jangle wrote:The toasters on the now-defunct 325C58 are the 7.4K ohm "scatterwounds". Some enthusiasts have been unwinding them to lower outputs in an attempt to "capture" the late-'50s sound. I can't speak for this mod; it has its admirers and detractors.

The Niggling Little Hunch may scream, but Detractors roar.

Ok,thanks Paul.

wayang wrote:This discussion is rapidly dissolving into a pithing contetht...

Reminds me of an old joke about this god named Thor who comes down to earth...and...

jingle_jangle wrote:The toasters on the now-defunct 325C58 are the 7.4K ohm "scatterwounds".

The 325c58 actually had lower-output toasters, somewhere in the 3.5K range.

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dpowell wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:The toasters on the now-defunct 325C58 are the 7.4K ohm "scatterwounds".

The 325c58 actually had lower-output toasters, somewhere in the 3.5K range.

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Ah,see,maybe that is where I read that the pickups in the 325c58 had a lower output. I also read the same thing in some of theseHarmony Central user reviems when I bought my 325c58JG in 2004.So is it possible then that the first batch of 325c58s had lower output toasters more faithfull to the 50's specs and latter model have the 7.5 scatterwonds?

I guess it's possible if they were trying to cut costs...

dpowell wrote:I guess it's possible if they were trying to cut costs...

I just thought that might be the case because those posts from 2004 say the 325c58 have toasters with 3.5K output and Paul said that the 325c58s have toasters with 7.5k output.Maybe they are both right.

Didn't c58's also have short-pole toasters?

sloop_john_b wrote:Didn't c58's also have short-pole toasters?

Really?So they are different than the 7.5k toasters that are being made now?