hi can anyone tell me if these pickups are original tokais?

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Hi can anyone please help me , i brought a tokai silver star off ebay .I was told it was all original( except for the finish ) but i am not 100% sure about the pickups .

It plays great but the pickups are a bit thin sounding .

any information would be appreciated


here are some pictures

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/shahpur/silver.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/shahpur/tokaiclose.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/shahpur/tokaihead.jpg


thanks
shahpur

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My vote is no. That does not look anything like the wire they used. There should be two individual wires per pickup twisted neatly together and the pickups should have a grey bottom, not black.

Cheers, Rich.
 
The high end DiMarzios has black bobbins AFAIK. I think they're in the SS-80 Silver Stars. Don't remember what the wires look like though...
EDIT: That body looks a lot like the natural finished SS-80 but that model should have brass saddles.
/Magnus
 
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There should be two individual wires per pickup twisted neatly together and the pickups should have a grey bottom, not black

The Dimarzios in my SS-80s have 2 wires coming out of each, but do have black bottoms. They sure don't sound thin though--they're about twice as hot as the pickups in my Springys and Goldstars. I also have an SS-50 and SS-40 both with grey backed 2 wire pickups as described above (SS-40 is stamped H and flat-poled)


I think some other (later?) SS models may also have black backed pickups, but I always thought they had 2 wires (often black and blue?). I suspect Peter Mac might have more info on this, and maybe some other forum members?

My SS-80:

ss_pups.jpg

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The pickups you show in your SS immediatly above have 5 holes in the bottoms whereas Shaps have only three.

Cheers, Rich.
 

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