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Post subject: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:14 pm
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Hi, i need some help identifying this pickup, been told it may be from the 70s! It has an embossed number on the base which is black and it read 016750

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98640809@N05/


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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:21 pm
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I believe the number is 016730.
That type of plastic bobbin was used for decades.

It first appeared in around 1980.

So no telling how old it is. How old is the rest of the guitar it came out of?

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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:14 am
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Im afraid I dont, was sold to me with another pickup. So youre mot able to tell me if its 70s? My guitar tech who sold it to me said he is pretty sure its from the 70s, i also have another pickup id like to know what date it may be from. But that one i think its harder than this one hah


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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 9:09 am
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Xav105 wrote:
So you're not able to tell me if it's 70s?


Perhaps someone else will chime in here, but I believe that Fender started using that plastic bobbin in 1980. So I can't tell you when it was made, but I believe I can tell you that it wasn't made in the 1970s.

They were using grey fiber bobbins for most of the 1970s. There are date code stamps on them.

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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:46 pm
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Xav105 wrote:
Hi, i need some help identifying this pickup, been told it may be from the 70s! It has an embossed number on the base which is black and it read 016750

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98640809@N05/


Are the pole pieces staggered? Can only see bottom view.

Check this topic:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=66937

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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 8:46 pm
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orvilleowner wrote:
Perhaps someone else will chime in here, but I believe that Fender started using that plastic bobbin in 1980.


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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 9:22 am
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Nope they are flat, heres 2 more pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98640809@N05/11030649434/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98640809@N05/11030652764/


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Post subject: Re: Help identifying this pickup
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 11:13 am
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The 016730 plastic bobbins may have debuted in '79. I haven't been able to find an exact date, but in '79 or '80 the X-1 Strat pickup changed from fiber flatwork to the plastic bobbin. I haven't found anything about whether regular Strat pickups changed at the same time, but it's likely that they did.

But as said, the 016730 bobbin has been used for decades -- still in use today for American Standard, Tex-Mex, and some other models. Flat poles were used on American Standards from '86 until 2000 or so (when the AmStd became the American Series with staggered poles).

Even if it's a '79, it's nothing special -- same as the American Standard pickups. The earlier '70s pickups with fiber bases have some minor collectability. But just because they're old -- they weren't particularly great pickups.

If it's an X-1 pickup it's somewhat interesting (still not super collectable or anything, just a little less common than standard Strat plastic bobbin pickups). Those were wound a little hotter than standard Strat pickups. You'll need to measure the DC resistance with a voltmeter to determine that.


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