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Hi. This is one of the pickups that’s in a Burst replica currently for sale (I posted about the guitar in the Non-Gibson pub yesterday).
The seller claims it’s a real PAF, but as I was comparing the sticker to that of a real PAF (photo below), I noticed that the placement (or spacing) of the letters isn’t identical.
I illustrated a couple examples below. You can see different relative positions of two P’s (indicated with yellow arrows) and T and E (orange arrows) between the real PAF and the “PAF” on the replica Les Paul. I checked some more pics of real PAF’s and all of them had the same letter placement as this real PAF. Consistent is how it’s supposed to be there, right?
Do you think this is a non-PAF pup with just a fake PAF sticker?
The seller claims it’s a real PAF, but as I was comparing the sticker to that of a real PAF (photo below), I noticed that the placement (or spacing) of the letters isn’t identical.
I illustrated a couple examples below. You can see different relative positions of two P’s (indicated with yellow arrows) and T and E (orange arrows) between the real PAF and the “PAF” on the replica Les Paul. I checked some more pics of real PAF’s and all of them had the same letter placement as this real PAF. Consistent is how it’s supposed to be there, right?
Do you think this is a non-PAF pup with just a fake PAF sticker?