electricsky
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I search for some informations about the Johnny Smith pickup and its possible evolution from the early 60's , to the late 70's .
I Know there was some evolution in the material used to build the PAF pickups , then the early Patent PUs and later , the T-Tops in the late 60's, so i wonder if there was also an evolution as well, in the way the Johnny Smith PU was built and the material used to build it .
A friend of mine ( who used to have a Guitar shop in Paris , from the early 80's , until 3-4 years ago , selling vintage guitars made mostly before 1970 ) proposes me a 1961 L7-C , equiped with a Johnny Smith pickup.
As a matter of fact , he found the pickup and installed it on this L7-C several years ago , as the friend to who he was selling the guitar , wanted a Johnny Smith floating pickup on that L7-C but he doesn't know what year this pickup was built ( not sure he ever knew when this pickup was made ) , so i try to know if there are some differences between the early Johnny Smith Pickups and the ones made in the 70's , until Gibson stopped manufacturing it , in 1979 i believe .
I Know there was some evolution in the material used to build the PAF pickups , then the early Patent PUs and later , the T-Tops in the late 60's, so i wonder if there was also an evolution as well, in the way the Johnny Smith PU was built and the material used to build it .
A friend of mine ( who used to have a Guitar shop in Paris , from the early 80's , until 3-4 years ago , selling vintage guitars made mostly before 1970 ) proposes me a 1961 L7-C , equiped with a Johnny Smith pickup.
As a matter of fact , he found the pickup and installed it on this L7-C several years ago , as the friend to who he was selling the guitar , wanted a Johnny Smith floating pickup on that L7-C but he doesn't know what year this pickup was built ( not sure he ever knew when this pickup was made ) , so i try to know if there are some differences between the early Johnny Smith Pickups and the ones made in the 70's , until Gibson stopped manufacturing it , in 1979 i believe .