HB1 found buried in a bunch of wax?!

Knash said:

Found this in a box of parts recently. At first I thought it was ruined but after cleaning up it turned out to be NOS!

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adorshki said:

I gotta suspect somebody thought it'd be the best corrosion prevention technique, and they were right?

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geoguy said:

Given that there was also an archtop bridge stuck in the wax (albeit on one edge of the wax block), my guess is that three unrelated items (pickup, bridge, & hunk of wax) were left together in a warm place for too long.

Either that or someone seriously misunderstood how to wax-pot a pickup!

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hansmoust said:

A lot of cool stuff came out of that little room in the Westerly plant. Here's another pair that I found shortly before the factory was closed.

Now it's waiting for the right guitar that needs 'm.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

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SFIV1967 said:

Maybe the garbage room?

Ralf

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GAD said:

I for one would like to hear more about the little room!

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hansmoust said:

A lot of cool stuff came out of that little room in the Westerly plant. Here's another pair that I found shortly before the factory was closed.

Now it's waiting for the right guitar that needs 'm.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

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hansmoust said:

There's not a whole lot to tell about that little room. From the few times that I've been in there I can only remember that it was more like a walk-in closet with not a whole lot of room to move around and it was filled with a lot of marked and unmarked boxes on shelves and on the floor. The last time I was in there was just after production already had been stopped, but there were still people in the plant moving stuff around. I had the idea that some more people already had been going through some of the boxes; it was quite messy and many of the boxes were not put back on the shelves, so it was really hard to figure out anything especially since I had no idea what was there.

As I already wrote in an earlier posting, I did find several boxes that had not been opened since the move from Hoboken to Westerly at the end of the '60s and that's how I ended up with quite a few old and rare Guild parts that had been used on models made during the earlier years. Most of the really rare stuff is gone now, but I sometimes wonder what was in all the other boxes that I did not get to check out!

But while I already had found more parts than I could carry, my attention was drawn to a little box in a corner that was marked ‘X-500’ with a pencil. I’m not going to re-do the whole ‘unpacking’ process on video, but I will post a few photos that should give you an idea what can happen when you open up a box and you have no idea what you will find.

This is the box:

I looked at the shipping label on the top and noticed that it came from Seymour Duncan:

It had been opened already and on top of the contents was a packing list:

Underneath the packing list were 3 Seymour Duncan Antiquity P-90 ‘Dog Ear’ pickups in their original packaging:

Those who have bought one of these Antiquity pickups will know that the pickups are nicely packed in a cloth bag with a label signed by Seymour Duncan that also gives the DC resistance and the serial number of the unit:

Also these pickups are supposed to look like an older pickup that already has been on a vintage guitar for many years; not really worn out, but with a nice patina that would look pretty convincing to someone who is not used to looking at older stuff.

Now from the packing list I understand that these pickups were sent to Guild as free samples just to see if it would be something to install on a Guild model. However, using parts that did not look ‘brand-new’ was not something that Guild would have considered at that point in time, so the pickups ended up in the ‘little room’.

The Seymour Duncan P-90 ‘Dog Ear’ pickups were eventually used on several Guild models, albeit not with the relic’d look of the ‘regular’ Antiquities.

The last photo shows both the 'relic'd pickup and the one that ended up on the production models; it also shows the way-less fancy packing material in which Guild received the pickups ........ meaning bubble wrap!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

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mavuser said:

"waiting for the right guitar that needs 'm"

would that not be GAD's blue Nightingale X-3000?

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mavuser said:

"waiting for the right guitar that needs 'm"

would that not be GAD's blue Nightingale X-3000?

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