Skyhawk sighting: NPR Tiny Desk Concert

[tomanche]

Today's NPR Tiny Desk Concert is by a rapper, Ab-Soul. Just behind his right side is a guitarist wielding a vintage white Skyhawk, as best I can tell. The neck and middle pickups look as if they are lowered way down in the cavities, and showing some white paint from inside the cavity? He introduces the guitarist at about 7:40... Sweet looking axe.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/11513742 ... sk-concert

[yowhatsshakin]

Good eye!

[bigjim711]

Today's NPR Tiny Desk Concert is by a rapper, Ab-Soul. Just behind his right side is a guitarist wielding a vintage white Skyhawk, as best I can tell. The neck and middle pickups look as if they are lowered way down in the cavities, and showing some white paint from inside the cavity? He introduces the guitarist at about 7:40... Sweet looking axe.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/11513742 ... sk-concert

Looking at the 1984-85 Skyhawks for sale on Reverb it appears the pickups are just body mounted on those and the pickguard is cut out like that. Very cool.

[tomanche]

Yes, I have a transitional Nighthawk/Skyhawk, and the pickups are body mounted. I prefer them to the later pickguard-mounted ones, only because the pickguard mount makes it harder to raise the pickups as close to the strings as specified for MFD pickups in the manual (because you're compressing the spring to its maximum).