'60s T-Bird pickup vital statistics

[Pekka]

Small world department: I'm sure some of you remember MPU (Marko Ursin) from the old Pit. That's who will be building the pickups for Pekka. I saw a thread Marko started at the Pickup Makers Forum.

Actually no. Marko did start the thread at the Pickup Makers Forum just to help me to get info since he was registered there and he also built the bass which will be the "final home" of the pickups but the actual building job for which this thread will be a tremendous help
(thanks and bows to everyone involved) will land to Rami Hakala, www.mikkihouse.fi.

[godofthunder]

 While I didn't take the back off my '67s pup (a transplant not original) I can see through the two screw holes in the backing plate and it sure looks like two coils, so that one is a humbucker for sure. next stop my '69 that I have had since '77-'78 I have never touched that pup.

[Dave W]

Actually no. Marko did start the thread at the Pickup Makers Forum just to help me to get info since he was registered there and he also built the bass which will be the "final home" of the pickups but the actual building job for which this thread will be a tremendous help
(thanks and bows to everyone involved) will land to Rami Hakala, www.mikkihouse.fi.

I stand corrected!

I remember seeing pics of basses Marko built, they always looked good.

[godofthunder]

Just looked at my '69 (chrome not nickle plated cover) and it also is a humbucker. Looks like I am wrong, but I swear the one I had apart was a big single coil.

[uwe]

The myth of a sixties early TBird single coil pup has been around for long and though I've never seen or heard one there might be more than a grain of truth to it. None of my four sixties Birds seems to have one and there is a 64 Rev II among them - on that the sole pup sounds almost mudbuckerish, billowing lows and all.

[MikeyB5]

This it what it should look like.

This is what I saw after I opened up the pickup cover on my '64 reverse. A wire had broken off while putting it back together after a refin job in the '70s. So I pulled the backplate off and that is what was there.The pickup needed rewinding so my guy supposedly sent it to Gibson for a rewind.

[Dave W]

Thanks, Mikey, that's exactly what I imagined from Bill Lawrence's description.

[Pekka]

Oops, I forgot to update. Here's the pickups I got for my MPU non-rev:

Some samples (forgive the too extreme panning and Devo-ish basslines...)

[Barklessdog]

Nice bass, great color

[Denis]

Nice bass, great color

x2! If I was going to get one of BaCH's unfinished NRs that's what color I'd go for!