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Post subject: Fender 016730
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:55 am
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I have a set of Fender pickups with the part number 016730 on the back of them. They came out of a MIM '70s Reissue Strat. Anybody got any info about them? According to the Fender info on the '70s Reissue the pickups are "Vintage Style", what does that mean? Are they copies of '70s pickups or some generic thing?

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Post subject: Re: Fender 016730
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:42 am
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They seem to be Fender's "generic" vintage reissue pickup. I think you might find the exact same pickups in the '60s and '50s MIM Reissue's as well. I have seen and checked out many of these pickups over the years and generally they are always 5.5k to 6.0k identical formvar wound single coils with no RWRP middle pickup.

That number... 016730 along with a few other variations to that number as used by Fender, seem to reference the plastic bobbin rather than the completed pickup itself. If, for example, you look the pickups from American Standards over the past couple decades, you will also see this number on many of the bobbins, and those pickups are clearly wound very different from your pickups. But the bobbin is the same.

Also, that number can be seen on pickups as old as those found in early 1980's Stratocasters. So using that number alone to identify what pickups you are actually looking at (assuming that you didn't know, for instance...) would be difficult without showing someone like me (who knows a bit about the history) detailed pictures and DC resistance readings to spot the variations made by Fender over the years.

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Post subject: Re: Fender 016730
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:14 pm
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SMark wrote:
They seem to be Fender's "generic" vintage reissue pickup. I think you might find the exact same pickups in the '60s and '50s MIM Reissue's as well. I have seen and checked out many of these pickups over the years and generally they are always 5.5k to 6.0k identical formvar wound single coils with no RWRP middle pickup.

That number... 016730 along with a few other variations to that number as used by Fender, seem to reference the plastic bobbin rather than the completed pickup itself. If, for example, you look the pickups from American Standards over the past couple decades, you will also see this number on many of the bobbins, and those pickups are clearly wound very different from your pickups. But the bobbin is the same.

Also, that number can be seen on pickups as old as those found in early 1980's Stratocasters. So using that number alone to identify what pickups you are actually looking at (assuming that you didn't know, for instance...) would be difficult without showing someone like me (who knows a bit about the history) detailed pictures and DC resistance readings to spot the variations made by Fender over the years.


I have that same number on my pickups in my 1995 usa std, the wire is plastic coated, the strat in question is a matching headstock limited run, I am putting them back in that strat and taking the duncan California 50s out, I kind of like the usa stock pickups better, they seem to have more sparkle and that is my kind of thing right now.


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