Fake Super 70 pup on eBay?

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Author Message Strat78 Username: Strat78 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 7:39 pm:    This "Super 70" pickup is up for auction on ebay, however it looks like a clumsy fake to me. The wiring, the pickup casing and the stamped SUPER 70 on the back look very different from all the other S70 pups I've seen. Snowjays Username: Snowjays Registered: 09-2004 Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 2:55 am:    Looks pretty much the same as my '74 Artist. Some super70's are inked and some are stamped. Could you elaborate some more? Strat78 Username: Strat78 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 9:33 am:    Here is a shot of the back of a typical Super 70, look at the difference in how Super 70 is stamped into the metal. Also the lead wire has a weave sheathing like all the super 70's I've seen (so far), the one for sail does not. Maybe the early Super 70's looked like this, if so I'll be the first to by this pup! Dave_g Username: Dave_g Registered: 01-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 2:55 pm:    Strat, The pickup in question is a very early version-note the pole pcs do not even screw into the base plate...looks like the ol Maxxon pups.... Dave_g Username: Dave_g Registered: 01-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2006 - 2:59 pm:    Even the pole screws look like the flat topped Maxxons-the 70's era Epiphone's had those same pups (also made in Japan)..I bet its just an early version of the Super 70... Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 6:32 am:    I think it's a Logo cover on a dodgy pup. I van see no solder marks at all. six Smakutus Username: Smakutus Registered: 01-2006 Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 8:53 am:    Do these pick ups go for a lot of money? If not, why waste your time faking them? If you're gonna fake these why not just do fake Gibson PAF's instead? Jeff Strat78 Username: Strat78 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 4:15 pm:    The Super 70s are wonderful pickups and are said to replicate the old Gibson PAF's very faithfully. This is the only pickup I use now and I adore them! They are starting to go way up in price now, and if you ask me, they are worth even more than the $45-$75 range that they are going for on eBay. Maybe they are catching on now? This pickup for sale looks like one of those cheep Epiphone pickups with a sloppy SUPER 70 pounded into the back and an Ibanez cover slapped on. I have a half dozen junkie Epiphone pups that I don't know what to do with, maybe this fellow found a way to unload them. I could be wrong though! Sixvsix Username: Sixvsix Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 1:22 am:    Fake real PAF's. Now there's an idea :^) Back to our fake. I think dump the pup. The cover is worth selling on it's own. Plenty of Custom Agent owners here who could do with it. six

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