Custombucker stickers

[PBZEPP]

Hey all, I was looking at 2019-2024 custom buckers and some have that white sticker with a date on it and some don’t? Just wondering, are those to identify when they plop em in the guitar and supposed to be removed and they just got lazy removing them? Just odd some have it some don’t. Not talking about the PAF decal fyi.

 

[jb_abides]

The white labels are the 'wind' and inspection date, not the installation date.

I can't answer your other question definitively other than to give you some observations:
- They see, to be more recent on CustomBuckers than other pickup sets, which have had them going back many years.
- They seem to be present on all the recent CustomBucker sets sold as new, uninstalled from the Pickup Shop, which is a fairly recent endeavor.

I haven't pulled my only set in the range you are looking at, from my 2020 R0, so don't know if they are on... when you go back in time prior to the range you discuss, CustomBuckers didn't have them whereas other pickups did...

It will be interesting to see if anyone has seen pre-2019 stickers going back through the range of CustomBuckers since they came on the scene to displace the BBs on the Reissues. Mostly, I've seen them without. With Gibson, it's hard to define a rule without exceptions...

 

[LPR6]

Never seen the white stickers on a custombucker, only on USA models.

 

[CS Murphy 'R9]

I was told 2019-present CB's are all Unpotted unless bought aftermarket correct?
The ones you buy from Gibson are potted but the ones in the guitars are not? I know the ones you buy aftermarket all have those white stickers.

 

[El Gringo]

Can we please see a photo of this OP

 

[Wizard1183]

Never seen the white stickers on a custombucker, only on USA models.

They’re on custombuckers. From the 2013 reissues to the $1000 set of pickups there’s a white sticker on them with serial number

 

[LPR6]

They’re on custombuckers. From the 2013 reissues to the $1000 set of pickups there’s a white sticker on them with serial number

Yes, somebody mentioned that, there are stickers on the aftermarket versions and those $1000 ones are special and it wouldn’t surprise me that they have a sticker. I think we were mainly talking about the pick ups that are coming in the guitars from the factory.

 

[Wizard1183]

Yes, somebody mentioned that, there are stickers on the aftermarket versions and those $1000 ones are special and it wouldn’t surprise me that they have a sticker. I think we were mainly talking about the pick ups that are coming in the guitars from the factory.

Most have a white sticker. My 2015 TH59 factory custombuckers have a white sticker on them…

 

[LPR6]

Most have a white sticker. My 2015 TH59 factory custombuckers have a white sticker on them…

Maybe it’s the part of the country you live in. None of my new Gibson’s with custom buckers had a white sticker on them.

 

[Wizard1183]

Maybe it’s the part of the country you live in. None of my new Gibson’s with custom buckers had a white sticker on them.

Yea that I can’t tell you. Weird there’s no stickers on them as just because you have PAF sticker on it doesn’t mean it can’t have white stickers as well. Idk?

 

[LPR6]

Yea that I can’t tell you. Weird there’s no stickers on them as just because you have PAF sticker on it doesn’t mean it can’t have white stickers as well. Idk?

No, I’ve had a few guitars with the PAF and a white sticker, just not on a custombucker.

 

[LPR6]

My 2024 CS SG and 2022 R9, no white stickers. But I haven’t checked my recent R7 and R8.

 

[LPR6]

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[LPR6]

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[Wizard1183]

No, I’ve had a few guitars with the PAF and a white sticker, just not on a custombucker.

Yea very weird Gibson didn’t identify pickups in some of their guitars, and some they have? The $50k Greeny, the Greenybuckers were identified.

 

[mrk]

Is there any significance to the number that appears between “Custombucker” and the date on the white label? I have a set that reads 127455, with a date of 12/06/23.

 

[jb_abides]

Is there any significance to the number that appears between “Custombucker” and the date on the white label? I have a set that reads 127455, with a date of 12/06/23.

That's a good question: most likely their internal production code; however, that's my informed speculation. I've seen '127455' on others, including CustomBuckers with gold covers, too. So not a very discrete model variant identifier.

What guitar do your CustomBuckers come from?

The interesting thing is, in the Gibson Pickup Shop, the CustomBucker model pics don't show the white inspection stickers, but I see current dealer pictures showing them, and new guitars reported with them as well.

So, not the first time Gibson are inconsistent in what they put into guitars during assembly versus for sale a la carte, or otherwise found in their supply chain.

Of course, the pictures from the Gibson Pickup Shop could have had the white stickers purposefully removed to enhance their visual appearance for marketing.

 

[mrk]

That's a good question: most likely their internal production code; however, that's my informed speculation. I've seen '127455' on others, including CustomBuckers with gold covers, too. So not a very discrete model variant identifier.

What guitar do your CustomBuckers come from?

The interesting thing is, in the Gibson Pickup Shop, the CustomBucker model pics don't show the white inspection stickers, but I see current dealer pictures showing them, and new guitars reported with them as well.

So, not the first time Gibson are inconsistent in what they put into guitars during assembly versus for sale a la carte, or otherwise found in their supply chain.

Of course, the pictures from the Gibson Pickup Shop could have had the white stickers purposefully removed to enhance their visual appearance for marketing.

These pickups came from a 2023 Epiphone LPC that I found on eBay with a broken headstock. Lots of little surprises as I was removing cavity covers and pickup rings, including these pickups and upgraded toggle, input jack, pots and capacitors

 

[JASIII]

From a 2018 R9

 

[Binky Griptite]

I have a bunch of Custom Buckers and it's true, some have the white sticker and some don't.

I was a Gibson Artist for a while a few years back and I became pals with the head of the Custom Shop at that time, Steve Christmas. He gave me a set after I toured the place and after I installed them ('08 R7 GT) I fell in love and went about replacing every 57 Classic I had. So that came out to about 16 pickups in 7 guitars because 2 guitars have 3 pickups.

I did all of this replacing 1 guitar at a time so he was sending them to me over the course of maybe 3-4 years starting in 2012. I'd get another Gibson and I'd ask for another set of CBs and swap them. Most of the pickups are not ID'd as CBs at all, they have the same PAF sticker as 57 Classics. Only a few had the additional white sticker and in my experience they popped up at random. It does seem to be a later thing though, probably no white stickers in the first few years. I think I was getting mine before they were availble as aftermarket parts so maybe the white stickers came when they became their own product.

Fwiw, I've recently removed them from the guitar in my avatar but Iexpect the rest of them will stay. I still like them.