Can Anyone I.D. these Pickups and Bridge?

[LittleLeroy]

These are in a 1990 H-535. Any ideas on whose they are? They look to me to have been potted post manufacture. Could they be HRW's that someone decided to pot?

 

The bridge looks a lot like a Faber to me.

 

Seller is asking $1735, shipped. Seems on the high side with all the replaced parts. What to you think?

 

Thanks,

 

~ LL ~

 

 

[PunkKitty]

Can't really tell. The pictures of the pickups are too small. The bridge is a TOM of some sort. It looks good enough.

[LittleLeroy]

Here are bigger pics of the pups.

 

[LittleLeroy]

Still bigger...

[Millennium Maestro]

The leads are red and green, I have never seen pickups with that combination, NOT HRW. Bridge is METRIC(Epiphone style). 1990 had skinny necks on most guitars FYI

 

I would believe there was a microphonic problem with the mystery pickups hense the nasty overdone wax job.

[DetroitBlues]

Yikes... Those wires look just Epiphone pickups (imported).

 

Remove some of the wax to see the backplate covers.

 

Is there something wrong or do they sound bad?

[PunkKitty]

The pickups are Mighty Mite Vintage Buckers. Alnico 5 magnets. Each one has about 1/4 pound of wax in them.

[Polo]

The pickups are Mighty Mite Vintage Buckers. Alnico 5 magnets. Each one has about 1/4 pound of wax in them.

 

Bingo.

[kidsmoke]

The pickups are Mighty Mite Vintage Buckers. Alnico 5 magnets. Each one has about 1/4 pound of wax in them.

 

and BAM. the small but mighty HOC assemblage nails another one. love it.

[Hfan]

Looks like a nice 535 but they all look nice ha ha. At that price I'd hold out for something else, maybe a later model with a fatter neck unless you like thin ones. Curious how it wound up with Mighty Mites (never heard of them.. I assume they are not exactly boutiques?). Would it have had had Schallers originally?

[LittleLeroy]

Looks like a nice 535 but they all look nice ha ha. At that price I'd hold out for something else, maybe a later model with a fatter neck unless you like thin ones. Curious how it wound up with Mighty Mites (never heard of them.. I assume they are not exactly boutiques?). Would it have had had Schallers originally?

no doubt she had the Schaller stuff. a shame someone put all that cheap stuff into her. the MM pups *list* at $45 each.

 

I don't mind a thin neck, but I wonder how much thinner it could be than my 2014 Amber, which seems pretty thin to me.

 

Thanks for your take on the price. My Amber, which is in mint condition and is a superb instrument, cost $1800 used from CME, just as a reference.

[LittleLeroy]

The pickups are Mighty Mite Vintage Buckers. Alnico 5 magnets. Each one has about 1/4 pound of wax in them.

 

 

 

Bingo.

 

 

 

and BAM. the small but mighty HOC assemblage nails another one. love it.

 

Much obliged to you folks with the KNOWLEDGE!! As I've said: this is one hell of a great forum!