Firebird pickups set – AGED\/RELIC GOLD PLATED. This listing is for 3 pickups – matched and calibrated set – bridge (7 kOhm), middle (6.74 kOhm) and neck (6.34kOhm) – Firebird Mini Humbucker – hand made by Q pickups .<\/p>\n
These are probably one of the few vintage correct replica`s of an early 60s Firebird pickup. Everything about these is high quality – built to deliver 1963 Firebird tone.<\/p>\n
Real vintage Gibson Firebird pickup had a special construction – a set of thin steel plates<\/p>\n
These hard-to-find plates contribute to the distinctive biting tone of a vintage Firebird guitar.<\/strong><\/p>\n Small plate measures 1″ x 7\/32″ (25.4mm x 5.56mm) and it is positioned on the TREBLE side of the pickup, just under the chrome plated nickel silver cover – under the “B” and “G” string – and on top of the bobbins.<\/p>\n Larger steel plate is under the bobbins inside the pickup, it measures 1-15\/16″ x 7\/8″ (49.21mm x 22.23mm) – stamped NICKEL SILVER base plates with short legs<\/strong><\/p>\n – GOLD PLATED NICKEL SILVER covers<\/strong><\/p>\n – vintage correct steel plates<\/strong><\/p>\n – vintage reproduction mini humbucker bobbins<\/strong><\/p>\n – sand cast Alnico V magnet bars<\/strong><\/p>\n – maple spacers<\/strong><\/p>\n – single conductor shielded wire with tinned braided copper shield<\/strong><\/p>\n – Elektrisola AWG42 enameled copper wire<\/strong><\/p>\n – coils are wrapped with vintage black paper “flat-back” tape<\/strong><\/p>\n If you need something about these different – DC resistance, 4-wire +ground, different cover etc – please let us know and we will work it out.<\/strong><\/p>\n Mounting screws and springs are included.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Firebird pickups set – AGED\/RELIC GOLD PLATED. This listing is for 3 pickups – matched and calibrated set – bridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12005,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[66,59,71],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11999","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-mini-humbucker","7":"product_cat-relic-aged-pickups","8":"product_cat-vintage-correct-clones-replicas","9":"product_shipping_class-l","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12377,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11999\/revisions\/12377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpickups.com\/qshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThickness: 0.015″<\/p>\n