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Author Message   Maldroc Username: Maldroc Registered: 7-2007 Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 5:42 pm:    Hi everybody. I'd like to know which pickup is the one my Ibanez 2616cs has. It has the number 25905 in its reverse. I'd like to know if it's original or which model is it, it's quite old, that's for sure. The guitar has no serial number, so it must be from 1973-75 I guest. I have seen some pics of an Ibanez 2460 were you can clearly see this pickup, here's the link: http://www.thesullied.com/IbanezL5.htm I hope someone has some information about. Thanks   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 10:26 pm:    I think the pickups on the 2616 are made by the same manufacturer. The build-up of the serial number is somewhat the same: 25905 for the '75 gold one on the 2460 and 25925 for your 2616. Now, I know that the 2616 had LOGO pickups in 1973 and 1974, described as: "New super power Humbucking pickup units with separate polepieces" The pickups in the 2460 in the picture are likely to be Super 70's, considering the round pole pieces, because the old Maxons had flat polepieces. So, > are your polepieces flat or round? > are your pickup covers with or without an Ibanez logo? > are they Chrome or Gold? > are they the same colour as your tuners and other hardware? If they are flat with a LOGO, they are original for 1973 and 1974. The part numbers of this pickup type were 2350-65 Chrome and 2350-66 Gold In the catalogue of 1973 and 1974 the tuners are described as "Chrome plated", although they look gold in the pictures. I don't know what to believe, the description or my own eyes, so you tell us what plating was used on your guitar, and if it's consistent for all of the hardware. Then the picture in the 1975 catalogue shows no description of any hardware, just a type number and a price of 980 Deutschmarks, but I think it IS possible that the pickups changed in 1975. Is there a "Super 70" sticker on the back of the neck? Because if there is, and the pickups are indeed chrome, it's probably 25905 for chrome and 25925 for gold (like in the 2460). Ginger   Maldroc Username: Maldroc Registered: 7-2007 Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 8:45 am:    Thanks Ginger, you have a free drink wen you come to Mallorca in Spain . The polepieces are round No logo They are gold, like the rest of the hardware, so they are gold an 25905... I'll try to put a pic of the tuners. Thanks   Gemberbier Username: Gemberbier Registered: 5-2006 Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 9:44 am:    Sounds like Super 70's or at least the same generation of pickups, but you confirmed my suspicion that the info in the catalogues about the plating is false. (I remembered them being gold in the ad of the Fellowship of Acoustics in Bergentheim (Ruud). But his were LOGO pickups (1973/'74). Perhaps your pickups have extra strong magnets for more output like the old "New Super Power Humbucker pickup units with separate polepieces". Ginger   Lespaul Username: Lespaul Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 10:51 am:    braided metal wire or grey plastic? P@ul   Maldroc Username: Maldroc Registered: 7-2007 Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 1:29 pm:    It's braided metal and twice thicker than the one in a Gibson 57 classic pickup that I have in my hands right now.

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