somebodyelseuk
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Gibson didn't do "balanced sets", neither did Fender before the '70s.
'Back in the day' the winders just wound coils all day, and 'threw 'em in a bucket'. The person, who made the pickups pulled the required number of coils, randomly, from the bucket and made the pickup, and 'threw 'em in a bucket'. The person wiring up the guitar, pulled the required number of pickups, randomly, from the bucket and 'soldered them where they landed'.
Whilst it's not quite so 'random' these days, the Custom Shop still does it this way.
I've an R7 and an R9, made just over a year apart, and the pickups, within mfg. tolerances, all measure 8k.
I've a pair of Yamaha SGs I've had since the 80s, made two years apart, and both read exactly the same, with the higher wind pickups being at the neck. Despite being identical setups, one is very 'phasey/hollow' in the middle and the other isn't...
Kossoff's favourite LPs also had 'hotter' wound neck pickups, by the way.
'Back in the day' the winders just wound coils all day, and 'threw 'em in a bucket'. The person, who made the pickups pulled the required number of coils, randomly, from the bucket and made the pickup, and 'threw 'em in a bucket'. The person wiring up the guitar, pulled the required number of pickups, randomly, from the bucket and 'soldered them where they landed'.
Whilst it's not quite so 'random' these days, the Custom Shop still does it this way.
I've an R7 and an R9, made just over a year apart, and the pickups, within mfg. tolerances, all measure 8k.
I've a pair of Yamaha SGs I've had since the 80s, made two years apart, and both read exactly the same, with the higher wind pickups being at the neck. Despite being identical setups, one is very 'phasey/hollow' in the middle and the other isn't...
Kossoff's favourite LPs also had 'hotter' wound neck pickups, by the way.