First I thought: No, just no. After a week I thought: quite interesting, and now I like it a lot! Bindings, but no blocks, lollipops, matching headstock, one pickup. The blue one that is.
I've never understood the appeal of gold foil pickups. The originals were cheaply made to a range of specs in terms of output, single coil or humbucker, etc. As such I'm not sure what the Goldfoil Sound is that gets people to dig so deeply into their wallets. They look ugly, were made badly and are apparently totally microphonic. Take my money!!I think we can blame Ry Cooder for their resurgence, but hipsters seem to try and bodge them into any guitar. This is why Lollar can charge $230 for a reproduction of a crap pickup.