[slimjw]

I just popped open a guitar I bought that's supposed to have a Duncan Broadcaster in the bridge and a Duncan Vintage in the neck, but there's no brass bassplate on the bridge pup, the wires don't have cloth leads and the coils are wrapped with a ribbon material instead of the usual style wrappings (what they are, I don't know, but it looks like black string, if you know what I'm saying). Didn't look too hard at the neck pup but the leads weren't cloth either.

Does anyone know if Duncan is now making these pups without cloth wiring, without the bassplate and with a ribbon wrapping? The non-cloth leads thing make them seem fishy to me. Not to mention the lack of a brass bassplate. They did have model number stickers on them that seem consistent with the numbers on Duncan's site, but I'm trying to find a definitive answer.

Anyone care to weigh in on this? Would someone be able to just peel off the model number stickers from some other pups and slap them on another pair?

Look forward to hearing from folks -Jason