prorenzo Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Hi everyone I bought a pair of Gibson Tony Iommi Humbuckers second hand back in Oct 2016 at 180 USD and recently dropped them in a Gibson SG. They measured 8.1k ohms and 8.4k ohms respectively, which is just half the stated value of these pickups (16.5k). True enough, when I fired up my lead solo patch on the fractal ax8, its nearly a clean tone. Output was miserably small. Now I am so bummed and disappointed because I waited since February to get my Gibson SG due to CITES, only for these pickups to fail on me. I got the SG for these pickups and not the other way round. What other alternative pickups do you guys recommend? Getting a brand new set is way out of my budget and I believe that they are discontinued. Might be looking for something from Bareknuckle, Seymour Duncan, Dimarzio etc. I am looking for something as close to the Tony Iommi Humbuckers as possible. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Look up a guy here on this board, handle is "Searcy". See if you can PM him. He can probably work with you on repairing those, (it's what he does) and probably return them to original specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zentar Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Sounds like youre measuring exactly half their true value. You may have wired them wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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