Anyone else think eddie never used a 9K PAF?

[Megaro]

Recent interview with Eddie where he said Franky had a PAF in it.

There have been conflicting reports about the humbucker in the original Frankenstrat, could you clarify what guitar it came from?

“Yeah, it’s from a [Gibson ES-]335. Actually, if I had my phone here, I’d show you a picture of me playing that guitar. Somebody just sent me it, it’s the only picture that I have of myself playing it.”

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... ear-641564

Eddie said pretty much the same thing in his 1979 interview with Jas Obrecht:

"See, what I do mainly is I use one a year. Like the first year, supporting the first album, I used the black-and-white-striped one. That was actually the original. It was not rear-loaded. It had a pickguard which I cut out myself, and it had an old Gibson P.A.F. The thing I always do to the pickups is I pot them. You dip them in paraffin wax, which cuts out the high, obnoxious feedback. It’s kind of a tricky thing, because if you leave it in there too long, the pickup melts [laughs]."

http://jasobrecht.com/eddie-van-halen-c ... interview/

[fivecoyote]

@megaro how close did you have the Super 70 to the strings? Those pickups can really push an amp, though in a different way than a ceramic. When I had a vintage Destroyer, I thought the pickups sounded like they were pushing the amp but more of a distortion pedal way than a ceramic way, if that makes sense. For sure pretty raw. But messed around a lot with pickup height. Can't remember what I did....

[Megaro]

fivecoyote, that is a really good point. My pickup is just barely peeking out over the ring. I will jack that thing up and have a go at it again. I really like your website by the way -- lots of good stuff there.

I think I made a mistake in one of my posts on the previous page assuming that Ed was using a hotter pickup when he used a Mighty Mite. Some of those old Mighty Mites were just PAF clones.

[jnew]

What's in the guitar and what's on the records is what it comes down to. Do you trust your ears or trust your eyes.