wicker.man Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Having replaced the stock pickups in my guitar (Epi LP Std 2003), is there an easy way of identifying which one is the Neck pickup and which is the Bridge? Both have stickers saying 'Neck', which I figured was just a QC error. One of the pickups has F stamped on the back and the other has R. One has red wires, the other has black. Am I to assume the F & R stand for front and rear? What about the wire colours - is there a colour convention that Epiphone use for these pickups? Any help or advice appreciated, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biff Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Short wire - bridge. Long wire - neck. Wide polepiece spacing - bridge. Smaller spacing - neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicker.man Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 I've sold the pickups so I can't actually measure the pole piece spacing, but I have a photo. One pickup had 30cm of wire, the other 40cm. Do you think they could both be neck pickups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron G Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I just looked at the stock pickups taken from my Dot. F=neck, R=bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicker.man Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks Ron - do your stock pickups have stickers on the back too? The person that bought my pickups suggested that semi acoustics might use a pair of neck pickups. I'm not sure whether this is correct or not - would the LP use the same bridge pickup as a Dot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron G Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Thanks Ron - do your stock pickups have stickers on the back too? The person that bought my pickups suggested that semi acoustics might use a pair of neck pickups. I'm not sure whether this is correct or not - would the LP use the same bridge pickup as a Dot? They do have stickers indicating position. Dot Studios (like mine) come with a hot bridge pickup. The pole piece spacing center-to-center is 50mm neck, 52mm bridge. Regular Dots come with 2 classic humbuckers but I don't know whether the pole piece spacing is different for the respective positions. I bet Spud does, though. Edit: It appears that the aftermarket Gibson 57 classic is for either position, like a 335. BTW, what pickups did you install; how do you like them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicker.man Posted July 1, 2008 Author Share Posted July 1, 2008 Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro's. I changed them some time ago, and I'm very pleased with them. I also got a Fishman Powerbridge fitted, so now it's a similar spec the Slash Les Paul. The Powerbridge and blending circuit is fantastic. I sold the old ones on eBay. Didn't get much for them, but I hoped they'd be of use to someone. It's a pity he thinks that he's got 2 neck pickups! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjtalon Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Epiphone-Alnico-humbuckers-pickup-F-Les-Paul-y_W0QQitemZ150264882933QQihZ005QQcategoryZ22670QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicker.man Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 Thanks everyone for helping me out here. The problem has been resolved and the buyer is a happy man. That last link confirmed everything for me - I did have a proper pair of bridge and neck pickups, it was just that they both had 'neck' stickers. Everything else was consistent with the ebay photo (wire colour, F&R markings etc). Great forum, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Short wire - bridge. Long wire - neck. Not always. Just finished my Kramer guitar and my mate gave me his old quad rails straight out of the kramer pacer he has. Neck pickup had the short wire. Also i checked the resistance reading to make sure. One of the pickups had 2 magnets on the bottom and the other had 3? The bridge one had long wire less magnets but higher resistance. Lucky i checked cos had it ready to wire with other pickup lol. 14k bridge 7k neck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RotcanX Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 They do have stickers indicating position. Dot Studios (like mine) come with a hot bridge pickup. The pole piece spacing center-to-center is 50mm neck' date=' 52mm bridge. Regular Dots come with 2 classic humbuckers but I don't know whether the pole piece spacing is different for the respective positions. I bet Spud does, though. [/quote'] The stickers are a little confusing since they use the same pickups on all their guitars and the Dot uses two 'neck' pickups in terms of output; however as Ron has suggested, the actual 'neck' pickup ('F') has a narrower pole spacing than the ('R') bridge pickup. You can see this in your side-by side photo; the one on the left is the bridge pickup with the wider spacing; the one on the right is the neck pickup. If you have an ohmmeter you can quickly verify which is which; the LP Standard bridge pickup is just under 14K ohms while the neck pickup is around 8K ohms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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