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New Old Guitar Day! :D And it's a shortscale too!

1963 Alden Stratotone.

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Original wiring and pickup.

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Sweet!
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A really nice looking guitar, congrats!

How do you find the Hershey bar pickup?
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On my phone that looks perfect.
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Thanks everyone. I'm really diggin this thing. The pickup sounds nice and clean but can get nasty. The catalog price on this was $69.50 back in the day.
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According to the online inflation calculator that would be $672.91
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Love these, passed up a dual pickup one a few years ago (not the same model, but a similar Alden), wish I hadn't. Might start the search again at some point..
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Have been playing a modern Silvertone Jupiter reissue with Mojo pickups 'goldfoils that look like Firebird pups' for years now.
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If i didn't think this would arrive in several pieces...
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Doog wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:29 am

Have been playing a modern Silvertone Jupiter reissue with Mojo pickups 'goldfoils that look like Firebird pups' for years now.
Do they behave any differently than regular singles/humbuckers, like cleaning up with the volume rolled back? And how noisy are they? I've always wanted big singles in a minihumbucker/firebird pickup format.
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Is that in Wunjo?
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sunshiner wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:04 am Do they behave any differently than regular singles/humbuckers, like cleaning up with the volume rolled back? And how noisy are they? I've always wanted big singles in a minihumbucker/firebird pickup format.

I need to redo the wiring on mine, I think I naused something up all those years ago as I think the pots behave a bit strangely. I don't feel like the pickups behave any differently, they have a slightly mid-scooped vibe?

And aye Nick, it's Wunjo one hundo
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These can sounds really good with that dearmond pickup.
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Doog wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:29 am Love these, passed up a dual pickup one a few years ago (not the same model, but a similar Alden), wish I hadn't. Might start the search again at some point..
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Damn, that looks like my kind of shop.
Your reissue looks really nice, I didn't know there was a reissue for the Jupiter. I'll definitely be on the lookout for those now.
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Thanks man! It's really a 'reissue' by name and vibe alone, although it had the wacky blender circuit that I removed as it sounded like arse. It's a solid body with a TOM, modern neck and flat radius; that '60s Alden felt like a parlour acoustic by comparison! I don't normally go for 'clubby' necks, but it was pretty slim across the 'nut dimension' (lol) and I really enjoyed it.

They've since released the reissues with Dearmond pickups (rather than the stock Filtertone-style units mine originally had), although they seemed to have removed that info from their site now.
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Doog wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:52 pm Image
Those really look sweet. I had looked at the Silvertone 1449 reissue at one time but was bummed to see it was a solid body. I'm still on the hunt for an original Silvertone 1448 that I can afford. Unfortunately the odds against me finding an affordable one grow greater as time passes.
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Do you still have the Flat Duo Jets one that you built? That one was awesome.
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No, I wish I did. That thing sounded great. I'm on the hunt for another to fix up.
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Holy fuck that thing looks awesome.
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