Guild XR-7 pickup? (Dimarzio)

[Rambozo96]

Guild/DiMarzio Xr-7 pickup I ran into while surfing Reverb. Was this some specialty proprietary model made for Guild by Dimarzio it is it just a rebadge of a pre existing model? I’m halfway tempted to buy it and see for myself.
https://reverb.com/item/32802679-gu...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=32802679

 

[GAD]

I have lots of guitars with XR7s. Someone here did a bit of digging on the model as I recall but I’m on mobile at the moment.

 

[DThomasC]

There's no question that the XR-7 was made by Dimarzio. Somebody here once conjectured the XR-7 was the same as the Dimarzio Super 2 but I have never seen any actual evidence.

 

[SFIV1967]

GAD also talked a bit about them in his reviews like here: https://www.gad.net/Blog/2016/11/08/guild-1981-m-80/

The Guild catalog showed this description:

The first model looked like this with DiMarzio written on the bottom. (pictures courtesy of GAD)

Later Guild changed that bottom plate:

Original DiMarzio pickups had no slotted screw polepieces.

Ralf