• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: an original 1968 gibson les paul custom

The serial number shows 1967, response from Gibson, they "restarted the production"end 1967, but 1968 is the official year of re-production.
HUMBUCKERS
- 1 with the famous patent number 2737842
- but the second humbucker, looking very old sais DiMarzio.
My question is: did Gibson use DiMarzio humbuckers in 1968?

I really appreciate your answer. I transformed the guitar back to the very first customs with P-90's but here they are P-94 humbucker-style single coil to fit in the cavity.
THANKS

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  • Registered: 2007-01-29
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Re: an original 1968 gibson les paul custom

That sounds like a question for Gibson support site. I don't think Gibson was using DiMarzio products. I suspect that someone put the DiMarzio in that guitar. I had a Gibson Rep tell me that the old Gibson Pickups were wound with manually operated machines and often a pickup would get an odd winding giving it a particular sound...that's why some of the vintage guitars and pickups are so desirable. He said that modern pickups are machine wound with automated counters and stops and have near absolute consistency. That leads to Gibson and others...like Seymour Duncan, who will find one of those really great old pickups and then duplicate it as a Reissue or Replica...

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: an original 1968 gibson les paul custom

Thanks Jay, I phoned to "my' music store and they are also the GIBSON distributors.
They told that a DiMarzio was used a lot, but not before 1969.
The guitar has to be "terrifying" expensive, and THE PICK-UP used should be an original t-pick-up, whatever a t-pick-up is.
NEWS FOR PLAYERS, OR COLLECTORS OR HAVING AN OLD VERY EXPENSIVE guitar, there is a guy on eBay, his name is the partsdrawer (I think) and you can find whatever you want. He buys guitars smashed on stage, or all kinds of parts, from a volume knob, to a tuner, like kluson. He had ordered for $300.000 parts, only for electric guitars. I will post a thread.

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- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
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