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  1. If these pickups in the guitar are original stock then they wil be Dirty Fingers. The original Dirty Fingers pickups were made late 70's/early 80's and had no name on the front of the pickups. Steve Clark's XR1 had the same zebra ones in his. Back in the 80's these Dirty Fingers were really only available on a select few guitars or special orders as a rule. They stopped production for a period and were re-issued in more recent years. It's the re-issues that bear the Dirty Fingers name. You'll also notice that many other pickup brands now bear the name of the pickup or the company aka Seymour Duncan or Fender N3 for example. If your DF bears its name, it's a new reissue one. If it doesn't it's likely to be the original from back in the day. Another way to tell if your pickups are likely to be DF's is if they have 12 height-adjustable pole pieces as opposed to just 6 which is what humbuckets traditionally have.
  2. I was just doing some browsing on the Gibson XR-1 and stumbled across this old thread... I'm curious as to what "Angellus" says about the above XR-1 being formerly owned by Gaz Coombes? Perhaps I have misunderstood what is meant here but if the XR-1 that Steve Clark had was formerly owned by Gaz Coombes, that would mean Coombes would've been about 5 or 6 years old when Clark obtained it from him for the Pyromania tour? It's no big deal but it just caught my interest as I'm a big Clark fan... cheers. :)
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