8,000$ for a pair of PAFs

[hunter]

huh

http://cgi.ebay.com/Set-of-DW-Double-White-Gibson-PAF-pickups_W0QQitemZ300253617514QQihZ020QQcategoryZ22670QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[MDV]

Les Paul

£1400

Stormy Mondays

£180

Your guitar sounding better than the one with $8000 pickups in

Priceless.

[JamesHealey]

£399 Epiphone Les Paul

£120 Seymour Duncan '59s

Sounding just about as good as the one u mentioned.

Priceless.

[MrBump]

Eight grand...

Gosh.  I wonder if they'll sell?

[TwilightOdyssey]

Eight grand...

Gosh.  I wonder if they'll sell?

They will.

[MrBump]

Eight grand...

Gosh.  I wonder if they'll sell?

They will.

Maybe.  It does seem like a shocking waste though.

[hunter]

I don't get the point of paying so much for old PUs where you have like a 50% chance to get good ones when there are so many high quality choices in the market meanwhile.

[WezV]

its all about the mojo

[MDV]

I don't get the point of paying so much for old PUs where you have like a 50% chance to get good ones when there are so many high quality choices in the market meanwhile.

Exactly. They were made with cheap labour, a poor mexican imigrant, usually, one coil at a time, all thrown into a bucket and then randomly selected to be assembled into a bucker, and some, by chance, turned out great and some didnt.

Guys like Tim have looked at what made the great ones great and made the process of making them predictable and consistent. You go for an old paff, its for nostalgia or bragging rights or both. You go for a modern handwound pickup if you want to be sure youre getting a great pickup.

[MrBump]

its all about the mojo

I know.  But you know that they'll be bought by someone with way more money than ability, put in a cracking guitar, and he'll STILL sound like cr@p.

[TwilightOdyssey]

The sound is the LAST thing that interests the ppl with the buying power for these pups. They will sell for more than $8k in all probability. If an $8k investment will make your original '50s LP double in value with these pups, which it will, serious buyers will line up for it!

[Spitfire]

Exactly, these are not a buy based on tone, they are a rich nostalgic indulgence.

[Roobubba]

I simply don't understand this.

[TwilightOdyssey]

I simply don't understand this.

Let me put this into some kind of perspective for you.

Case in point, my boss. He is the perfect example of the luxury level customer; he also has many vintage guitars. If you need a pen, where do you go? I go to my local office supply store and buy a box for $6. The pens my boss uses range from $1,000 - $10,000. EACH. He also collects watches. I saw a receipt last year on his desk for a watch he bought (Philipe Patek, I believe). The price? $34,000. He also collects Civil War guns. We won't even go into the price of those.

For someone that has the disposable income to drop $50-300,000 on a guitar, and additional $8,000 is NOTHING.

[MDV]

I simply don't understand this.

Let me put this into some kind of perspective for you.

Case in point, my boss. He is the perfect example of the luxury level customer; he also has many vintage guitars. If you need a pen, where do you go? I go to my local office supply store and buy a box for $6. The pens my boss uses range from $1,000 - $10,000. EACH. He also collects watches. I saw a receipt last year on his desk for a watch he bought (Philipe Patek, I believe). The price? $34,000. He also collects Civil War guns. We won't even go into the price of those.

For someone that has the disposable income to drop $50-300,000 on a guitar, and additional $8,000 is NOTHING.

I bet he left the reciept for the watch lying round 'accidentally' too.