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Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa
Sweet guitar, looks to be in great original condition - use it well  - but there's a reason those DeArmond screw-mount pickups never caught on (and the few stores that took them into stock in the '50s wound up blowing them out for $5-10 a pop in the '70s) and whoever did this to a guitar in that pristine shape should be shot...  |
The pickup actually sounds great to me. It appears to have been installed on the guitar long ago, probably back when it was still new.
I found out that there might be a date on the bottom of the pickup. The next time I change the strings, I'm gonna take a look and see if it, too, is from 1959.