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not really a horseshoe ... there are no shoes ... it kinda looks like a Rickenbacker pickup from the early 70s ... it is more of a humbucking high gain ... it might sound good wired in series ... or with a series, parallel, single coil 3 way switch installed ... it would be easy to make a similar pickup with a couple jazz pickups ...

I also do not know why they are calling it a horseshoe...That makes no sense..

Is that an HB .1?

The HB1's have stacked coils so it's not one of those. It seems a lot of people call 4000 series bridge pickups horsehoes. I'm sure they just don't know the difference.

Read that again Dane. That was .1 as in alpha release.

Ahh...now I get it. Unfortunately my nerd quotient wasn't high enough to get that on the first take.

there is no way I would pay $500 for that pickup ... I could make my own for under $100 ...

Yup, I don't see this going the same way as Dave's 8 p/u.

I have it on good authority that HB1's and HB2's are NOT stacked coils.

the hb1 and hb2 both have dual rails with a coil around each rail ... side by side coils ...

Although the may very well be RIC experimental/prototype pickups this guy is selling (this one and the others he has listed). There is a good reason they never made it to market. Most likely they didn't have the sound quality or performance to make the grade. With all the science that goes into a pickup a certain amount of experimenting is part of the process. I would have thought that most items like this would have been destroyed or put into the archives. I can't believe that these left the factory under legitimate circumstances.

Ted - your IT is showing.....