So I was just digging through my box of old parts, which is honestly almost entirely junk that I just can't bring myself to throw away. You know, just in case.... Anyway, I hadn't looked in there in detail for probably 6 years. In the box was a bag my former bandmate had given me which he told me had the original bridge pickup from his Epiphone Les Paul and the original pickups from his MIM Tele. I had never opened the bag other than to peek inside to see if there was anything else he'd neglected to mention, and had honestly forgotten about the pickups. So imagine my surprise when I pulled out the pickups and saw Seymour Duncan stamped on the plate on the Tele bridge pickup. 
Closer inspection showed that the Tele neck was also a Duncan. So I called him about it and it turns out he'd bought the Tele used and didn't realize the pups were not the originals. He'd replaced them with a pair of twinblade buckers and didn't even look at the originals when he pulled them. A little research on my part and I'm 99% sure they're the APTL-1/APTR-1 Alnico II Pro set. Theres some corrosion on a couple of the pole pieces on the bridge and a little wear on the neck cover, but nothing that will matter in the end. I was planning a Tele for build 2 or 3, but in the interest of building something sooner rather than later, it looks like the Tele has moved to build 1. Hopefully by the end of summer I can have something going. Man, I love it when my packrat tendency actually pays off. :headbang:
Too bad the bucker was indeed a cheap Epi. Eh, two out of three ain't bad. :glasses9:
Closer inspection showed that the Tele neck was also a Duncan. So I called him about it and it turns out he'd bought the Tele used and didn't realize the pups were not the originals. He'd replaced them with a pair of twinblade buckers and didn't even look at the originals when he pulled them. A little research on my part and I'm 99% sure they're the APTL-1/APTR-1 Alnico II Pro set. Theres some corrosion on a couple of the pole pieces on the bridge and a little wear on the neck cover, but nothing that will matter in the end. I was planning a Tele for build 2 or 3, but in the interest of building something sooner rather than later, it looks like the Tele has moved to build 1. Hopefully by the end of summer I can have something going. Man, I love it when my packrat tendency actually pays off. :headbang: Too bad the bucker was indeed a cheap Epi. Eh, two out of three ain't bad. :glasses9:
