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Post subject: Number on the back of pups
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:30 pm
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While rewiring my American Strat, I noticed that the pups have a number imprinted on the back. Does this mean anything? The number is 016730.
I was wondering if this was a designator for a type of pup because this Strat was bought used and I don't think these are the original pups. Thanks!


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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:51 pm
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That number seems to be the Fender part number for the plastic bobbin used in many of their non-Custom Shop pickups. You even see that number going way back into the '80s on various Fender pickups. So just seeing that number doesn't necessarily tell you much about the pickup itself except that it IS made by Fender. You can find it in the American Standards as well as the Classic Series, and those Strats clearly have different pickups. I've even seen them in some of the older Japanese Strats.

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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:53 am
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I have 2 single coil pickups in my 1996 MIM Fat Strat that also have 016730 imprinted in the bottom. It would be nice to identify the model pickup from this number.
How do you identify pickup models in Fender Strats????


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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:03 pm
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paisley strat wrote:
How do you identify pickup models in Fender Strats????


Most of the time you can't.

Maybe you can measure their specs and figure out what they are, but that doesn't always work because of variability.

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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:44 pm
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Yeah, what orvilleowner is likely referring to is measuring the DC resistance with a multimeter. I would guess that they are close to 6k which would make them identical to the stock Classic Series '50s and '60s Strat pickups of that era.

...Just a guess though... :wink:

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