Gibson low impedance pickup identification

[gearHed289]

I´ve already explained to my wife that this pickup needs a project, and that she needs not worry because selling the other three pups will finance the body.

Spoken like a true Outpost-er!

[hieronymous]

I was going to start a new thread for this picture, thinking I had stumbled on a picture of some weird Triumph prototype, but this thread made me realize it is probably a (Japanese?) copy:



This is Jaki Liebezeit, best known as the drummer for Can. I scanned the picture from The Can Book by Pascal Bussy - I just happened to dig this book out of my storage space - probably haven't looked at it since 2002, a time when I was totally unaware of the Les Paul basses. Imagine my surprise when I see a 22-fretter with smaller pickups! After reading this thread and looking again at the picture I realized that the headstock is not visible.

[Highlander]

Uwe...!!!

[Basvarken]

Bridge looks different too. Maybe that's a Schaller?

[Dave W]

Or a Japanese copy of a Schaller.

[Granny Gremlin]

Def not the Schaller.  The tailpeice is too short.  Looks like a Japanese ho.

[Basvarken]

I've seen that bridge before on Ibanez Les Paul basses with "normal" rectangular pickups. But never on the Triumph copies.