I would rather believe what the site says than what your friend says. Who made pickups? Your mate or Ibanez? :-) If ya have the pictures of the replica send through PM to me, thanks. I checked these Les Paul copy's on one ibanez site, they looked really good :-) Doesn't matter, the point is Ibanez always ads the company's name who made their pickups or designed as they do. Anyway, these pickups are great, I've got the INF1 taken out my ibanez, I didn't liked the high output on the bridge :/ CHanged it to seymour duncan 59' vintage =] If anyones interested i could sell it for 10 quid...