Oh, good grief, that is sweet! How could you sell it?
Sell Tibbs bike instead! :)

-Robert

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Does the 2nd and 3rd humbuckers catch fire like Ace's used to do? That'd be sweet.

Tony (Kiss Army, 1975 ;-)

Vintage guitars. Love 'em. This one ought to fetch a pretty penny. I'm sitting on a Gretsch Viking, with a Bigsby tremolo system. All original and not a bit of restoring. Brian Setzer tried to buy it off me back in '87, when I lived in Norfolk. My dad bought it new at Wonderland Music in Dearborn, Michigan, back in 1967.

Tony

Wait. Not humbuckers. That's the first one. What are the other two called? I can't remember ;-) Too much loud rock and roll music over the years.

T.

I'm not hijacking the thread, I promise. I think they really are humbuckers. Just called "double-coil humbuckers", I think.

What sayeth Mad Monk?

T.

Clearly not, as there are but two :(

YIKES!

"Humbucker" is a term used to describe a dual coil pickup with the 2 coils wired so that they cancel, or "buck" hum.

The two coils are wired in such a way that interference (hum) is 180 degrees out of phase from one coil to the next, and is thus cancelled out.

The first pickup commonly referred to as a "humbucker" is/was the Gibson PAF pickup, as found on Les Pauls. This was a marketing effort to differentiate the Gibson pickup from the single coil pickups found on Fender and earlier Gibson guitars (Charlie Christian/P-90 types.)

Ace's flaming guitar had a fake pickup cover in the middle position that covered an asbestos lined cavity. The crew placed a pyro effect in the cavity prior to the show, and it was tripped on cue like the rest of the pyros in the show, usually burning the crap out of Ace. I had a chance to check out that guitar years ago... pretty cool idea...

MH -

professional luthier since the age of 16. Yikes! THAT'S where those years went...

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Yeah, Les Pauls are the way to go...If I remember how to read the serial number it appears to be #478 dated 9.7.93. or something like that....