Recently got a '51 Epi Zephyr Regent Deluxe and have a couple of questions about the pickups, which are the old New York style large single coils. Mine had the bridge pickup mounted with the pole pieces toward the neck; modern twin PU guitars usually have the neck polepieces nearer the neck and the bridge ones nearer the bridge. They're easy enough to flip around, but I wondered if anyone knew what was the stock mounting for them.
I'm also wondering if anyone makes replicas of these. Mine sound great, but if they fail, does someone make pickups in that size? They're smaller than a standard humbucker and bigger than the Johnny Smith ones. They have a different sound than P90s (less biting).