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Especially on a woman!!

That’s what she said.

Ok I’ll go. My wife doesn’t shave her legs.

Good deal if you have a child that wants to learn a guitar!

Typically (but not always!) the pickups installed are identified on the label. However this does inspire me to pull out my H137 tonight too. It's been neglected as of late.

I noticed that they have a really nice compression to them. I have a C&W gig tomorrow night and will use the H-137. It's a great guitar for grit but it can sound almost Tele like when used with a twin or deluxe.

wow!! That is pretty dang cool! So the 6 posted here, plus the 4 you guys bought, make up the 10 total? and congratulations!

I got three of them. One of those I gave to my grandson. Gretsch and Randy had a charity auction years ago. A friend of mine tipped me off to the event. He got one. I put bids on 3 and got them all. They are essentially acoustic Super Eagles with floating pups. Together we got the first 4 Synchromatics. I kept two blondes and had a single coil pickup put into a Heritage floating casing made by one of the Heritage guys.

Shucks

Agreed. I don't doubt the pickups being Seth Lovers or not. I'm also confident they are genuine Duncans. Counterfeits don't sound as good as these do. I think one is regular after market production line and the other is OEM. Normal spec for the bridge is 8.1 - 8.3, so this one is still within the +/- 5% tolerance range.

Doesn't seem wrong for Seth Lovers. They're usually around 8k ish. I can't remember if they have the same impedance bridge and neck, or slightly more winds on the bridge. I was thinking they were the same. They're in the ballpark anyway. The original PAF were the same, neck or bridge.

That clear tubing over the braid might be magnifying it, hard to tell IMO For the record I just checked some other PAF style pups I have: JS Moore: 7.3k neck, 7.8k bridge Throbak Mick Taylor: 8.3k neck, 8.0k bridge SD's according to that chart: Seth Lover 7.2k neck, 8.1k bridge alnico ii pro is 7.6k neck, 7.85k bridge

If the lead was too short and used in a different installation, a new one could be attached and any broken wires inside removed. If you look at the braiding, at least in the pic shown, the braiding appears larger than the other

Didn’t notice that before. Now that I look closer I think you might be right. Whatever the reason for it, still sounds amazing.

It appears the pup described as being a bridge Seth Lover has been opened and resoldered

Yes was going to reply the same. Lollar makes great pickups!

The original 50's Gibson pups weren't sorted by neck/bridge were they? I thought they just grabbed pups out of the bin & neck/bridge were arbitrary, when they were assembled

I just checked this chart, I thought the bridge of a Seth was around 7.8 kohm but I guess I am mistaken: it says 8.1 kohm https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/pickup-comparison-chart I must be thinking of the alnico ii pro, which is also a great pickup & one of my faves. I was recently messing with a set of those & the newer Slash signature pups, which are based on the alnico ii pro.

curious why you think this? Bridge is labelled SH55B = Seth Lover bridge Neck is SH55N = Seth Lover neck

I bet it sounds great with Seth Lovers. I had 59's in a 535 & changed them out, preferred unpotted pickups like Seths

Haven't exactly followed this thread, but would say the bridge pup is either underwound or a neck pickup.

Neck is coming in at 7.23k and the bridge is 7.82k

Just curious if you can read the ohms of the pickups? Something strikes me odd about the bridge, like maybe it just got a sticker. I think SD keeps a database of the Seth Lover pickups and can recall the DCR based on the serial number sticker on it.

That’s an old picture, I didn’t actually find it, but I found the old picture. Lol.