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Post subject: Fender Custom Shop 1960 Strat Pickups?
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:26 am
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Hi everybody,
just bought a fantastic sounding 1960 Relic Strat. As there is no spec-sheet with this guitar, I was wondering what pickups are built in...
Serial Nr. is R58629.
Can somebody help me out with information?
Thanks in advance and greetz from Austria / Europe.
EJ


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Post subject: Re: Fender Custom Shop 1960 Strat Pickups?
Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 8:38 pm
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the golden egg wrote:
Hi everybody,
just bought a fantastic sounding 1960 Relic Strat. As there is no spec-sheet with this guitar, I was wondering what pickups are built in...
Serial Nr. is R58629.
Can somebody help me out with information?
Thanks in advance and greetz from Austria / Europe.
EJ


A 1960 Relic will most likely come stock with "Custom 60s" Strat pickups. Custom 60s sets will be 3 identical pickups wound with 42 gauge Formvar wire to ~5.8k. The magnets are alnico 5, but they have slightly different formula than all the other Fender alnico 5 pickups. My understanding is that the formula was altered back in the '60s in an attempt to keep the ends of the slugs from chipping off. Some seem to think it also altered the tone of these pickups as well... In a good way, of course. :mrgreen:

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