Always wondered about these PUs

[jp]

Here's a listing for a '64 T-100DP. Pickups appear to be the silver-topped Hagstrom Adjustomatics rather than the Franz PUs as the seller was told, but I could be wrong. I've seen similar chrome-covered PUs on a few T-100s from the 60s and always wondered what they were. Perhaps chrome-clad Dearmonds? Anyone have any experience with these or know how the Hagstrom's stack up to Dearmonds :?:

 

[Walter Broes]

They're nice single coil pickups, but nowhere near as big sounding as Franzes or DeArmonds to my ear. Rather have these than any kind of humbucker though.

 

[gilded]

You know, I looked at that auction real hard this morning, even tried to look those pickups up in Hans' book, but I couldn't figure out what they were. Glad somebody knows more about 'em than I do.

 

[hansmoust]

You know, I looked at that auction real hard this morning, even tried to look those pickups up in Hans' book, but I couldn't figure out what they were. Glad somebody knows more about 'em than I do.

Well, they are in the book! Page 32, middle photo!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[jp]

They're nice single coil pickups, but nowhere near as big sounding as Franzes or DeArmonds to my ear. Rather have these than any kind of humbucker though.

Thanks, Walter.

Well, they are in the book! Page 32, middle photo! Sincerely,

And thanks for confirming my suspicions, Hans.

 

[gilded]

You know, I looked at that auction real hard this morning, even tried to look those pickups up in Hans' book, but I couldn't figure out what they were. Glad somebody knows more about 'em than I do.

Well, they are in the book! Page 32, middle photo!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

Thanks, Hans, they are indeed in the book. And, if I had read the fine print above the photo, I would have seen that,

'Sometimes these units had an all-chrome cover, while others had a slightly different cover with a white top,'

to quote a respected author. In that I didn't read the fine print, all I saw was a pickup that looked different from the one in the photo.