I bought a 2000 USA Ash Strat today. It plays like a dream and sounds great with fabulous Strat tone. The guitar has two tone knobs and one vol.

I am curious about the pups. They have adjustable poles. Can someone ID them for me? I suspect they are noiseless.

Are there different types of noiseless pups?

This looks like a good forum:)

Here is a link with photos.


http://s707.photobucket.com/albums/ww76/mtgorman/temp%20view/

Sorry I cannot view the pic. Try highlighting the image link, copying it, then bring it over and drop it here. You can use the preview link to see if your image appears here.

Welcome to the Forum. Congrats on the new guitar, can't wait to see it.

RK

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

Thanks, I'll try again.

Ta da, i overcame this minor technical difficulty and obvious noob error:oops: , pics should be viewable.

I saw it...Very nice. Welcome to the Forum, (forgot to mention that, sorry).


RK

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2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

Is this the pic of your pickups?

You said the poles are adjustable... are you just referring to the height adjustment screws ? As far as noiseless pickups go, yes, there are the vintage noiseless pickups like the Clapton Strat has. They are alnico pickups. There are also hot noiseless pickups like the Jeff Beck Strat comes with. The hot noiseless pickups are ceramic.

Yes, those are the pups. When I saw that all three poles under the G string were raised, I assumed they were adjustable. All three have the poles adjusted exactly the same, it's as if a machine did it.

So these are generic Fender Noiseless pickups correct?

It is called vintage stagger. The poles have different heights. This staggering is done to compensate for the output of each string for two reasons. The first reason is because the fretboard has a radius (also called camber) of between 7 and 12 inches. Naturally the strings will follow the radius of the fretboard and so must the magnets, generally speaking. The second reason is that some strings have naturally higher output, the plain or unwound G string being the most significant and this calls for these magnets to be further compensated, resulting in an apparent odd looking stagger. Fender Strat pickups generally follow the traditional design and have the G string's magnet as high as the D string's, but this causes the G string to overly dominate all the other strings due to its higher output. Traditionally in the 1950s and 1960s, string sets came with a wound G string, but it was difficult to bend across the fretboard in modern rock and blues styles of music. In the 1970s, string manufacturers introduced the non-wound G string, which was easier to bend, but had a much higher output. In order for the G string to have the same output the G pole should have the greatest gap between the string.