Removal of the pickups showed that they were not Gibsons (Left). All Gibsons are engraved or marked in some other way by Gibson, the plastic covered wires was a giveaway too – Gibsons are usually wire braid covered.
Burstbuckers – Don’t make me laugh
I have a pair of Gibson humbuckers that I bought in 1974 (cost me 23 each – a small fortune for a 17year old) – one had “Gibson” stamped into the cover, the other has no markings at all. I put them on a Shaftesbury Les Paul Custom copy that i still have to this day. A few years back I had it at Soundcontrol in Newcastle to have a setup and some loose frets fixed – the guitar guy recognized the pups as genuine originals – how I don’t know why. Now Gibson stamp their names on everything. Yes they have bare braided cables.
I sold some of the 70’s embossed pickups a while back – for significantly more than £23 🙂