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Post subject: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat MIM
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:04 pm
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Thanks to Fender Support I discovered that my 1997 SuperStrat MIM has the following Pickups installed:

"Pickups: 3 New Super Fat “Super” Strat Single-Coil Pickups"

Here's a Pic of the PUPS:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=32036377&l=976580fc1f&id=1576662917

I'm having trouble finding ANY info at all on these pickups.

I've read online that they are pretty rare. Apparently after the Super-Strat was discontinued, it was renamed the "Deluxe Players Edition" and vintage noiseless pickups were used.

Apparently the easy way to identify these pickups is a green wire, which is supposedly not normal for Strat pickups?

I found an old Super Strat pickup assembly for sale that stated:
"This is an older Deluxe Super Strat pickup assembly that works perfectly. This isn't the early model with the funky single coils. These are the hot Tex-Mex pickups that have similar output to Texas Specials. The middle pickup is also reverse wound for hum-canceling in the 2 & 4 positions. With the push button, it has a 7-way sound activating the bridge pickup in positions 2 & 4. Awesome tone!"

And another that said:
"The Fender "Super Strat" was the precursor to the Deluxe Player's strat. This features the rare Fender Deluxe "Superstrat" single coils instead of the vintage noiseless found on the Deluxe Player's. It comes with the same wiring using the push/push button for additional tone possibilities. Perfect for someone who wants the flexibility of the Deluxe tone circuit but isn't a fan of the noiseless pickups. Perfect working order, with push/push button tone circuit for a wide variety of tones. "

Does anyone have any knowledge of these pickups? I'm a newbie to pickups and trying to learn by first understanding what is in my Strat.

Any advice would be appreciated.


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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:01 pm
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twaite wrote:
I found an old Super Strat pickup assembly for sale that stated:
"This is an older Deluxe Super Strat pickup assembly that works perfectly. This isn't the early model with the funky single coils. These are the hot Tex-Mex pickups that have similar output to Texas Specials. The middle pickup is also reverse wound for hum-canceling in the 2 & 4 positions. With the push button, it has a 7-way sound activating the bridge pickup in positions 2 & 4. Awesome tone!"


Tex-Mex pickups are nothing special:

http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0992131000

Your photo of the pickups really doesn't tell anything about them.

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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:13 am
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I believe they are close to the Tex-mex pups. I also read this about them:

""Super Fat Super Strat" pups instead of the current Vintage Noiseless. REad about these little known pups on Fender Forum or any other reviews. Somewhere between TExas Specials and Tex Mex. Overwould Alnicos for sure. "

I'll keep digging. Would pics of the backside of the PUPS help?


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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:39 am
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Where are you reading the quotes about these pickups that you are posting? They sound to me like something someone has written to sell a guitar on E-Bay.

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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:33 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
Where are you reading the quotes about these pickups that you are posting? They sound to me like something someone has written to sell a guitar on E-Bay.


+1

Reads like a PR puff-sheet to me.

I don't think anybody has ever definitively quantified just exactly what the Super Strat's "fat" pickups actually are.

They do sound tasty though.

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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:16 am
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Retroverbial wrote:
bluesky636 wrote:
Where are you reading the quotes about these pickups that you are posting? They sound to me like something someone has written to sell a guitar on E-Bay.


+1

Reads like a PR puff-sheet to me.

I don't think anybody has ever definitively quantified just exactly what the Super Strat's "fat" pickups actually are.

They do sound tasty though.

Arjay


You summed it up well. The only info I could find on PUPS from the Superstrat was in a few ads for selling similar guitars.

I've decided I love the way they sound, and never changing them.

Todd


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Post subject: Re: Help in Understanding Stock Pickups in 1997 Super Strat
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:34 am
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There you go.

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