Thought I bought an EMG 81/60 set…

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Bardagh

Bardagh

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No, I didn’t get chinese fakes. I bought this set of pickups off a guy on Reverb who had pulled them from a Jackson baritone guitar. These are advertised as actually have an 81/85 set, but I could see both pickups had the silver logo so I knew it wasn’t an 85.

Turns out it is an EMG-HB, according to the sticker on the back, and this is a P BASS PICKUP made in a guitar humbucker size for some Steinberger basses. I installed it thinking maybe it’s a mislabel, and sure enough it sounds like a really loud single coil pickup with a lot of low end and snappy/twangy up top.

This guy insists these were the stock pickups in this import Jackson guitar, and he’s generally been helpful so I’m inclined to believe him, but WTF?
 
Keep them ?

Naw, I’d return them because they weren’t as advertised.

I think he tried to pull a fast one on you.
 
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He can be sure they were stock loaded, and sure, maybe they were stock loaded on it when he bought it from the guy before him who switched the pickups out. Or, maybe the factory screwed up and grabbed the wrong pickups when they were building the guitar. Either way, you didn't get what you paid for, and if it really was a factory mistake then yes, it sucks to be him, but the onus is on him to have the wrong pickups and not "pass the savings on to you" so to speak.
 
Yeah we’re going to work something out, I don’t even care if it’s a partial refund and I’ll send this shit back to him.

I have a little difficulty understanding how this kind of pickup could accidentally end up in the guitar at the factory (I think the guitar he’s talking about is made in Indonesia) but who the hell knows.

The last thing I expected was to get what is essentially a P Bass pickup.
 
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