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Gibson/Lawrence Tarback? Pickup ID Help


Bobh1959

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I need help ID'ing this pickup. It appears to be a very hot Tarback, but has some things that have prevented me from finding a positive ID online so I'm hoping someone here knows. See the pics or mouse over thumbnails for embedded captions. Thanks.

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You don't have 2 outputs, one for coil tap I assume, though I have NEVER seen a Gibson pickup like that one on Reverb. (And I've been doing this for over 30 years.) You have a closed cover, not the open one showing the screws. I know the Lawrence's were in the 6-8K range, which was hot for the early 70's. This one on Reverb, has the three conductor wiring, but it's completely unlike the one you show. I don't know of any 70's Gibson pickups that were 4 conductor.

This looks closer to yours, but still, not a match.

https://reverb.com/item/3098391-1970...back-humbucker

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You guys have been a big help, thanks, and finally achieving nerd status at 58 is something I'm immensely proud of. :-) I pulled this off an old Korean Raven LP, not a bad guitar btw, and was going to put it on a LP build project I'm doing if it was a Lawrence of some sort, guess it's going back into my parts box.

 

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Bill Lawrence did pickups for Gibson, Guild and Fender back in the 1970's.

I love the old L 250's and XL 500's from 1977 to 1984. Most were inconsistently wound. I have some L 250's that range from 11.08k ohms to 14.03k ohms and some XL 500's wound from 11.28k ohms to 14.98k ohms. 

 

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