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Could someone post some pictures of the inside of a re-issue toaster pickup for guitars?

I had the misfortune of purchasing a fake toaster pickup recently (looked real from the outside), and I couldn't find any pictures of the real deal for cross reference.

Many thanks.

here's an old one of mine

The second one looks like a vintage bass toaster, Rob wants pics of a reissue guitar toaster!

nah, a bass toaster would should have four polepieces.

Well, that might work for your standard 4 string bass. But when you start adding more strings, you need even more:

Numpties
JimK

Thanks guys!

Seriously though thanks Wim.
On the base plate that unscrews off the bottom of the toaster is there anything attached to that? And would there be anything covering the wound wire and the pole pieces?

Things are always more palatable, one slice at a time. Good work guys.

Though not a pic this may help your other questions. http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/gpickups.pdf
The bobbin is sandwiched between the toaster cover and an aluminum plate and held together by 4 screws and nuts in the corners. Scatterwounds use slotted screws. 12 k toasters used Phillips head screws.

Thanks Ken.
I did check the schematic on the official site first, but I wasn't sure if there had been some variation in the design of these over the years?
I would guess that the cutout shapes on the base plate are a giveaway too.
The official Ric ones have the odd circular cutouts as well as the oblong strip, the fakes just seem to have the oblong.

FIREGLO67 wrote:Thanks Ken.
I did check the schematic on the official site first, but I wasn't sure if there had been some variation in the design of these over the years?
I would guess that the cutout shapes on the base plate are a giveaway too.
The official Ric ones have the odd circular cutouts as well as the oblong strip, the fakes just seem to have the oblong.

Might be useful if you could also post some pics of the fakes Rob so we know what to avoid...

Rob, they look like the one Wim posted but with narrow black electrical tape over the copper windings.

that is probably a real cover and baseplate, but the coil is fake.

look at how fat the bobbin was, before I unwound it and it still was about 15KOhm



They must have pressed it in the cover.
Who needs gain, when you got a rickenbacker anyway