Seymour Duncan Which One Is Fake???  

I think there are knockoffs out there more difficult to spot than this one too. This one is pretty easy to spot.

I agree that there shouldn't be a "Seymour Duncan" on the front of the pickup but the color of the backing plate or the roundness of the mounting tabs or the two holes on the front being on the "wrong" side have no effect whatsoever with the sound they produce. Let's hear a blind test to see if the SDs are worth the extra $150. Just like the name brand guitar makers overprice their products we can expect the component makers to jump on the overpriced bandwagon as well. The proof is in the playing.

I'm late to the party here, but the worst part is people installing these in guitars and selling them off as "SD pups installed" when they are fake. This is where it gets ugly...

The square black hole is from thr original Gibson PAF from 1957/58, the use the same casting tooling (for 6 string P.U.)and the original pickup winder in the SD custom shop (or with 80'S SD Pickups)

The question is how do they sound compared to each other? That would be nice if there was a sound comparison

Tbh, the font on your ‘original’ pickup doesn’t match the photos on the Seymour Duncan website - og is somewhere in between…

Is Plasmon real Plasmon anymore? Are you looking at Simon Templar on a B&W TV set that has HF roofing or you're already buying cheaper shirts from China, is the font perfected or gross?! I don't know. Namastè.

I have the fakes and they sound super. Clean and dirty. Got them with a full kit including push/pulls. No regrets.

With regards to the font. I had a JB already I bought another one for my other guitar from a well known German music shop and the font is just like the fake you have here. Everything else is like the genuine you have here

Easy to tell the $18 set are fake

Thanks the review

Open it check see if the magnets are ceramic

Waiting for sound test video!

The song?

Interesting but we need to hear them.

As far as one being slightly longer than the other is that he's comparing a bridge pickup to a neck pickup. The bridge pickup will always be slightly longer and the posts slightly further apart. The biggest tell of which is fake is the brass base. Seymour Duncan uses nickel silver.

I still can't understand why SD, given the fact they've got their name on the front of the bobbin, still has that awful looking square hole in one end. Dimarzio don't have it. And I've got an old Schaller 2in1 that doesn't have ANY holes in the front. Bizarre.