Dimarzio ID - the ones from my LPC

[slash-ed]

Hello all,

So while I was flipping the pickups in the Epi LP I got off my arse and decided to flip the ones in the LP Custom too.

What I found was - no nice and easy model number labels (of course), black plastic covering the wires, not braided cover. And individually:

- Brass backing plate on the bridge one
- with handwritten sticker that says "219",
- and another sticker saying "Dimarzio US Pat. 4,501,185"
- Gold hex head screws

- Black backing on the neck one
- with handwritten sticker that seems to say "215"
- Black hex head screws

Any clues as to what these might be? Might take some better pics and send them to Dimarzio if no one knows.

[Michael]

http://www.stevesmusiccenter.com/DimarzioDP219.html

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DP215BK

Sorted

I think..

[slash-ed]

Thank you, but if you try and use that logic thing it would seem that those are a bit out there, yes? Obviously my first stop was googling those numbers, BUT, D-activator NECK in the bridge, and EVO 2 Bridge in the NECK? Come on. And newer Dimarzios have DP-whatever printed on stickers, not handwritten in pen.

And reportedly those Dimarzios were in there from a previous owner since the 80s, and both those designs are 2000-onward designs AFAIK. Of course you didn't know that part, but the rest might have occurred to you

Unless, of course, you are right. In that case I would probably eat my own head.

[Michael]

You leave me alone

Maybe the person that put them in wanted them in those positions, and the guy that sold you it lied to you

[sty]

http://www.stevesmusiccenter.com/DimarzioDP219.html

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/DP215BK

Sorted

I think..

I would have gone with this just from the labelling perspective because I just fitted a brand new boxed Super Distortion to my RRV and it had the same brass back stamped with Dimarzio and a Patent number and then a small white handwritten sticker with 100 on it, which matches the Super Distortion as it's a DP100

it also had an F stamped on the back which would indicate F Spaced I guess.

however if those combinations above look strange then I'd be stumped, unless someone swapped the labels for some stupid reason???

[ash]

All the info you have provided matches exactly with what Khann has suggested. If you have a multimeter, measure the resistance to confirm. Handwritten labels still come through from time to time.

[slash-ed]

Damn, I'll have to eat my own head won't I

I'll have to sell the LP Custom and buy a Langcaster, too...

Don't have a multimeter, might *ahem* borrow the one from work (I am assuming we have one somewhere anyway).

[Aquila Rossa]

Those pups in the custom didn't look like modern ones to me. They had that early '80 look to them that the old super dist and the ibby gotohs had.

[slash-ed]

You leave me alone

Maybe the person that put them in wanted them in those positions, and the guy that sold you it lied to you

Okay I take back my harsh comments about Neck/Bridge arrangement, I read it wrong, fuck me, my mistake - BUT... from an output perspective, I reckon there's no way in hell it could be an Evo 2 in the bridge, unless an Evo 2 has half the balls of an Evo and less output than a Tonezone. The TZ in my Ash Custom sends the low gain mode of my amp into fairly crunchy overdrive the way I set it up, while the same settings of this bridge pickup only tickle it slightly... And although the Dimarzio website says Evo 2 has "slightly less power" than an Evo, having had an Evo, I can't believe that this bridge pickup is related to it...

Confusion. Confucius say, wtf damn Dimarzios are these?

[slash-ed]

Oh, so I got it right?

The neck pickup doesn't seem VERY high output either. But it's fairly bassy, maybe it IS a bridge pickup? Hah, it was the one I liked, too.