avengers63 Posted January 20, 2022 Report Share Posted January 20, 2022 So I kinda accidentally bought a thing...;. It's an allegedly fully functional pickup assembly from a 1970's Russian Aelita. I looked up a youtube demo - they sound pretty cool. So I was looking on eBay for weird old pickups when I saw a seller in Russia had several, including 2 loaded p/g assemblies. I put them on my watch list, half hoping I'd get an offer. When I did, I lowballed him just to see what would happen. He accepted the offer. Add $35 shipping from Russia and I paid $100 for the loaded p/g. IDK if this works yet - I haven't done any multimeter testing. It's gonna sit on the shelf until at least Spring. The current thought, presuming that it works, is to try and clone the body shape. We'll see what happens when the time comes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted January 21, 2022 Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 Wow! A Sovjet Shtrato-Cyushter! Is that a 5 pin DIN socket hanging from the last pot? That reminds me of a Sovjet solidbody I saw at a nearby guitar shop some 25 years ago, when the USSR still strongly existed. The Russian border is only 100 km from here and half of that where the shop was so there was quite a many Russian bands playing in dance restaurants - cheaper to hire than local bands... And of course they wanted to buy "real" instruments of at least vaguely known brands with the little money they got. The problem with the guitar was that there was no sound, or at least the shop personnel couldn't get more than a whisper out of it. It may have been faulty, or they just didn't have a proper adapter, or it would have required a strong preamp. I never heard how the story of it ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted January 21, 2022 Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 Awesome score, looking forward to seeing a guitar respawn around it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Bizman62 said: Is that a 5 pin DIN socket hanging from the last pot? Yes. Apparently, the Soviets still hadn't figured out 1/4" plugs when this was made. We had been using them since at least the 1940s, but they're literally on the other side of the world and still hated America at the time, so who knows. I haven't decided if I'm going to cut it off or try to find an adapter. At this point, I'm just hoping all the wiring, pups, and pots are still fully functional! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakedzen Posted February 1, 2022 Report Share Posted February 1, 2022 For full authenticity you'll need to match the inlay work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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