Tokai Hard Puncher Pickup Question

[eutgard]

This is closeup of my newly acquired Tokai Hard Puncher (PB 40, made at 1979 )







Do you think it's original?

I'd like to know...

[ampegfuzz]

Looks like a dimarzio. I thought the hard puncher came with a more solid "fender-like" pole piece.

[elfrem]

That is an original Tokai Hard Puncher I pickup. They were used by many Japanese companies. One came stock in my 1981 Westone Thunder I and I had a 1981 Ibanez Blazer that used those as well. They may in fact have been copied from the DiMarzio.