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I'm new at this, so if I sound really ignorant or uneducated in the following, it's because I am.

I'm repairing/restoring an old Les Paul-copy Electra, and I got a couple of used SD pups I figured I could pop in. The repairman I bought them from I assume wouldn't sell me a set of pickups if one wasn't a bridge pickup and the other a neck pickup. So my first question (which I might answer for myself in the following) is: how do I tell the difference between a neck pup and a bridge pup?

In an attempt to answer my own question before making an ass of myself on an online forum... ... I went about indentifying the pickups on the SD site. The first one was a zebra pickup with quot;JBJquot; on the bottom sticker. Obvious what that one was. Since JB's are recommended for bridge position (as it so helpfully says here - hope I didn't misinterperet...), I figure the other must be a neck position. But just to be sure, I figured I'd identify it too. Trouble is, I can't.

This one is another humbucker, all black. It looks much newer than the JB, and the sticker on the bottom this time reads:

1FT63
SH1N 0054

This page would seem to suggest that it's an SH-1n '59, but I just wanted someone who knows more about this stuff to verify that.

Thanks.

welcome to the forum!!

yup sounds like a 59 neck and a jb bridge, a cool combo. classic gibson neck tone with a juiced up hotter bridge

Thanks so much for your help!

I can't wait to hear how the thing sounds when it's all fixed up.

First project though is to reset the fingerboard - it's separating from the neck...

Thanks again

Just in case you didn't quite get it, the way he knew is that the quot;Nquot; in quot;SH1Nquot; stands for neck. If it was bridge, it would be quot;SH1Bquot;

Thanks for clearing that up - you guys have been very helpful.
I'll report back on how it sounds when I get the things in!



Welcome to the forum, bro.