Tim Shaw Pickups

[youdevil]

After a bit of a break, I have been spending a lot of time with my 1982 Les Paul Custom. While I don't know if there's a surefire, failsafe way to tell if it has Tim Shaws (beyond the fact that this was his heyday at Gibson), I'll say this: it doesn't sound like any other LP I've ever played.

That bridge pickup just wails --screeches and squawks and makes a joyously ragged tone but in a very defined, prescribed way (unlike a P-90 which reminds me of that crazed gunner in the PT boat in 'Apocalypse Now', firing all the hell over the place).

Meanwhile, the neck pickup sounds like the way brownie mix looks being poured into a pan: rich, round, dark, smooooooooth.

Is that how others experience Tim Shaws (or, for that matter, all LPC's from this era)?

Chris

 

[your idol]

yup shaws are pretty much pure awesome...thats why theyre stupid expensive and getting worse

 

[paulomj]

After a bit of a break, I have been spending a lot of time with my 1982 Les Paul Custom. While I don't know if there's a surefire, failsafe way to tell if it has Tim Shaws (beyond the fact that this was his heyday at Gibson), I'll say this: it doesn't sound like any other LP I've ever played.

That bridge pickup just wails --screeches and squawks and makes a joyously ragged tone but in a very defined, prescribed way (unlike a P-90 which reminds me of that crazed gunner in the PT boat in 'Apocalypse Now', firing all the hell over the place).

Meanwhile, the neck pickup sounds like the way brownie mix looks being poured into a pan: rich, round, dark, smooooooooth.

Is that how others experience Tim Shaws (or, for that matter, all LPC's from this era)?

Chris

Exactly! Read my post here (Need Confirmation on a Tim Shaw). Bridge is a Tim Shaw and neck a T-Top. I did'nt even need to check them (but I did anyway). At the first note I knew which each one was. The differences are... well: night and day!