I just bought a set of Texas Special Pickups for a project. Upon opening the package I realized two things. One, none of the pickups are marked, and two, I get a short reading on my tester on two of them. I ID'd the middle pickup due to the wires being reversed and one pickup reads 6.24k on my multimeter. I figured that the one that reads is the neck pickup but I'm worried about the overload reading on the other two. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi fender0426,

The TS pups should have a Custom Shop sticker on each, and the neck pup will have a blue dot on a pole piece on the bottom, and the bridge pup will have a red dot, the middle pup having the yellow and black wires whereas the neck and bridge pups will have white and black wires. If the two pups measure "OL" on your meter, that means they are testing open circuit not shorted. Shorted would measure 0.000. If they are open, it might be at the solder connections on the pickup and can be re-soldered, otherwise the wire in the pup is broken.

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It does sound like there's something bogus with that set. I've installed about a dozen TS sets over the years and virtually every one of them was as shimmilou describes. You may be due a refund......

Arjay

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Thanks for the advice. Seems I am returning them b/c they overcharged me by at least 30 bucks too.

Unless you got Texas Specials removed from a factory strat, like the roadhouse, srv, mark knopfler. Those never came with the Custom Shop stickers, some not even mark dots. But they´re all the same pickups.
Maybe you can post some pictures so we can take a look.