Gibson T-Buckers

[Iplaygeetar4jesus]

Just dropped some mid/late 60's Gibson T-Buckers in my 1993 Gibson Les Paul Studio. These are the "Patent # Pick-Ups", they have the patent # of the old Gibson trapeze tailpiece like on the very first Les Pauls. The tone out of these is just amazing. No comparison to the stock pups. They can handle the cleanest clean and the crunchiest crunch. On the clean channels the next nick up gets almost an acoustic smoothness. The bridge can spit out sweet hot leads and keep your open chords together even at the highest volumes. They get bluesey, they get heavey, they get chunky, they get spanky. No tone is out of reach with these babies. I never realized why people swear by vintage pick-ups but now I do.

 

[dwagar]

They should be stickered, right? Stamped plates came later.

I agree, TTops can be great pickups.

 

[Iplaygeetar4jesus]

Yes they are stickered.

 

[wholelottasomethin']

Yes they are stickered.

i got one of those too for my standard. They kinda suck

 

[dwagar]

the TTop in the neck position of my 74 Custom is one of the best sounding pickups I've heard. I suppose, like everything else, they can vary.

 

[wholelottasomethin']

the TTop in the neck position of my 74 Custom is one of the best sounding pickups I've heard. I suppose, like everything else, they can vary.

Here they are.

They're too low output for my taste.And the bridge is too thin sounding and the neck is kinda muddy. Sounds really crystal clear in cleans but that's it. But it can be my valveking fault.

 

[Iplaygeetar4jesus]

These pups from what i've heard are some of the more varied out there. Meaning: one set could be great one set very sub standard. I was lucky enough to find an amazing set in an old Univox Les Paul copy i got off ebay for cheap. Dropped a set of 57' specials in the Univox and threw these in a drawer not knowing what they were. From the price i got the Univox for i was sure they were junk. I looked up the patent # one day and was very surprised to find them to be Gibsons. My 93' Studio pick-ups were a little too hot for my taste so i took them out and threw these in, and i've never looked back.

 

[monroe]

I let a pair of stickered T-tops go for dirt cheap a few short years ago... 35-40 bucks IIRC... They were original to my 76, and they didn't sound that great; dark and lifeless. That guitar came with 300K pots, and I'm wondering now what the T-tops would have sounded like with 500K pots. Oh well, I don't miss them. Some people rave about them, so I guess there is a lack of consistancy in them.

 

[ES350]

Unfortunately, a lot of people hear them in the post-74 300K era guitars, but they sound just fine to me with 500K controls. If you want a beefier T-top, replace the shorter stock magnet with a full length M55...

 

[gibiphone]

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