Abby Y's Strats ..Pics

[MetalManiac]

One of the Grand Dames of guitar history. I set out to get an signed set of Abigail Ybarra '69 Custom Shops. Abigail isn't signing anymore of these sets, she is retired now.
Ive seen sets go for pretty cheap- under a hundred, but I got these one at a time. I paid 40 bucks shippd for one, and 48 shipped for the other, but when i saw the last one to complete the set, it was priced real high,at 64 dollars shipped, but i had to have it. You know why? Check the date ;9-18. Thats Hendrix's date of death man!

Anyway, Duncan, your way behind the 8 ball man..what about a signature set of hand signed MJ Humbuckers? MJ is the other 1st lady of rock guitar history!

[STRATDELUXER97]

Awesome! I really like the 69 pickups!

[Strat111]

Awesome! I really like the 69 pickups!

+1
I have the CS 69 in the neck & middle w/Van Zandt Rock in the bridge for a great Strat sound. It nails my old Ritchie Blackmore tones.

[marvelous_seven]

hmm, I love 69

[ItsaBass]

What I'd really like is a guitar with an AY pickup and an MJ pickup. I already have two AY pickups from 1965 (from a Duo-Sonic), so I just need to add an MJ pickup. Another killer pickup or pickup set would be one made and signed by both AY and MJ!

Here is a pic of the unused AY pickup. The other is in a Strat at the moment.

[Andrew Lamprecht]

I hate to say this but those are not wound by her.....

AY is when she had watched a worker wind it to make sure they were doing it to her specs. A real wound Ybarra pickup is more rare and it will have her whole signature signed on it.

[Varg]

I hate to say this but those are not wound by her.....

AY is when she had watched a worker wind it to make sure they were doing it to her specs. A real wound Ybarra pickup is more rare and it will have her whole signature signed on it.

Seriously? That's a pretty big balloon burst.

[DeanSweden]

I hate to say this but those are not wound by her.....

AY is when she had watched a worker wind it to make sure they were doing it to her specs. A real wound Ybarra pickup is more rare and it will have her whole signature signed on it.

heh, she probably watched the workers press the start button

[Ed Hunter]

I hate to say this but those are not wound by her.....

AY is when she had watched a worker wind it to make sure they were doing it to her specs. A real wound Ybarra pickup is more rare and it will have her whole signature signed on it.

who told you this?

[JeffB]

who told you this?

This has been stated many times over at the unofficial fender forums for years. I saw it 4 or 5 years ago when i was researching the cs69s. If it has initials, it just means it is abby approved, so to speak.. Actual abby pups will be signed.

[MetalManiac]

I hate to say this but those are not wound by her.....

AY is when she had watched a worker wind it to make sure they were doing it to her specs. A real wound Ybarra pickup is more rare and it will have her whole signature signed on it.

Lamprecht , you have just shattered my dreams, and pieces of my heart lie scattered all over the floor.
Have a nice day.











Nah brah..this I knew. She initialed them and was the inspector- she did not wind them. The hand wound Abbys have her signature, not initials. AY isn't initialing any more pups though. Theres probably zillions of these sets, but eventually I think they'll be somewhat collectible.

[DrNewcenstein]

Yeah, once those who own them spread rumors that she really wound them.

I'm sorry, but I sincerely hope those pickups do not increase in value simply because someone with the initials "AY" wrote on them. Andrew Young might be happy to know a set of pickups he wound are mistaken for Abby's, but those who throw stupid amounts of money at the real thing would not be happy.

Inspecting someone's work is not doing that work. I'm sure they're great pickups, but let's get realisitc: surely someone else with the initials AY has wound pickups at Fender in the last 70 years?


And if you want Duncan CS pickups wound and signed by MJ, order some custom Duncans. Her initials will be on the card in the box. Or hunt down all the old stickered pickups with JBJ, DDJ, DCJ, etc on them.

[MetalManiac]

Yeah, once those who own them spread rumors that she really wound them.

I'm sorry, but I sincerely hope those pickups do not increase in value simply because someone with the initials "AY" wrote on them. Andrew Young might be happy to know a set of pickups he wound are mistaken for Abby's, but those who throw stupid amounts of money at the real thing would not be happy.

Inspecting someone's work is not doing that work. I'm sure they're great pickups, but let's get realisitc: surely someone else with the initials AY has wound pickups at Fender in the last 70 years?


And if you want Duncan CS pickups wound and signed by MJ, order some custom Duncans. Her initials will be on the card in the box. Or hunt down all the old stickered pickups with JBJ, DDJ, DCJ, etc on them.

Dr. N. ..You sound bitter. AY made her living inspecting those pickups for Fender, and signing the CS'69 pickups. A new set of Cs'69's w/o Abigails initials are still about the same price as those with, although complete boxed sets of AY initialed CS69 pickups..havent seen those around at ALL anymore..just loose singles and complete sets mounted in pickguards...hmmmm.
Rest assured NO Cs69's at Fender were initialed by anyone other than Abby Ibarra.By the way, if you think inspecting pickups is som kind of childs play, you are sadly, and BADLY mistaken.
Over the course of about 10 years when she was initialing the CS69's, I am sure there there probably may have been days when short staffed, ABBY actually DID wind some of those initialed pickups!

There are a few who try and pass the initialed AY's off as wound by Abby, but get real, only a fool would fall for that. Fender aBBY WOUND PICKUPS ( hand signed -not just initialed) ARE NOW OVER 500 DOLLARS, AND PROBABLY WILL RISE IN VALUE CAUSE aBIGAIL IS NOW RETIRED( i THINK)...and oops, sorry for the caps, dangit!
A set of stickered MJ Duncans is NOT the same as a special Run "MJ" handwound and signed with full signature pickup.

[DonP]

Yeah, once those who own them spread rumors that she really wound them.

I'm sorry, but I sincerely hope those pickups do not increase in value simply because someone with the initials "AY" wrote on them. Andrew Young might be happy to know a set of pickups he wound are mistaken for Abby's, but those who throw stupid amounts of money at the real thing would not be happy.

Inspecting someone's work is not doing that work. I'm sure they're great pickups, but let's get realisitc: surely someone else with the initials AY has wound pickups at Fender in the last 70 years?


And if you want Duncan CS pickups wound and signed by MJ, order some custom Duncans. Her initials will be on the card in the box. Or hunt down all the old stickered pickups with JBJ, DDJ, DCJ, etc on them.

And if you want some AY pickups, search for a set of Jackson J100's? Didn't she work for Jackson when Fender dropped her, and she would not have been just watching back in the 80s.