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Post subject: What pick ups are in my Strat...?
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:10 am
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Hi all,

I have owned this particular red strat for years now, bought it used and it's my favourite guitar. (along with a blue FAT Strat deluxe i own with lace sensors)

It's a FAT Strat Deluxe, says made in Corona, California, serial number DZ0068475

I want to make this my main gigging guitar and the humbucker isn't quite up to the job and I fancy putting in a Suhr SSV and a couple of Mike Landau singles coils.

http://www.alexfloyd.com/red-strat.jpg

Assuming the humbucker is the original, I am just wondering what the stock pick ups were when the guitar left the factory.

Cheers

Carl.


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Post subject: Re: What pick ups are in my Strat...?
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 10:56 am
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A circa 2000 American Deluxe Fat Strat would have had the DH1 humbucker and 2 Vintage Noiseless pickups (I think they used the slightly hotter pickup that was the bridge pickup on the SSS model as the neck and middle on the HSS model but I could be thinking wrong).

I can't tell from the photo if the single coils (which are actually stacked noiseless pickups) are stock or if they have been replaced - the stock pickups would have had script reading "Noiseless" on them, but that script rubbed off pretty easily. The stock pickguard would have been parchment on these back then.


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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 11:14 am
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John C wrote:
A circa 2000 American Deluxe Fat Strat would have had the DH1 humbucker and 2 Vintage Noiseless pickups (I think they used the slightly hotter pickup that was the bridge pickup on the SSS model as the neck and middle on the HSS model but I could be thinking wrong).

I can't tell from the photo if the single coils (which are actually stacked noiseless pickups) are stock or if they have been replaced - the stock pickups would have had script reading "Noiseless" on them, but that script rubbed off pretty easily. The stock pickguard would have been parchment on these back then.


The neck and middle pickups are the hotter dual-coil ceramic types.

The SSS model sported two Vintage Noiseless pickups with AlNiCO V magnets and a Dual Coil Ceramic Noiseless pickup in the bridge.

The R&D team worked on the Noiseless pickups for the American Deluxe series almost 2 years before Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck began using them.


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Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:25 pm
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That humbucker looks like a Seymour Duncan to me.
Fender made one that looked like that?

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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:50 am
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orvilleowner wrote:
That humbucker looks like a Seymour Duncan to me.
Fender made one that looked like that?


Pickup is a Fender DH-1 Atomic with aged covers. SD humbuckers do have the "Seymour Duncan" logo embossed on them.


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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:17 am
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Thanks for replying guys.

Actually checked out the 'Fender DH-1 Atomic' on the web and see that it's pretty close to the SD Jeff Beck that I use in another guitar.

I think my plan will be to take the whole assembly including plastic guard, and slot it into another Deluxe strat that I have which has Lace Sensor pickups (1995 model), and then put a Suhr SSV and 2 x V60 single coils in this red strat.

Thanks once again. :D


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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:07 am
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chromeface wrote:
orvilleowner wrote:
That humbucker looks like a Seymour Duncan to me.
Fender made one that looked like that?


Pickup is a Fender DH-1 Atomic with aged covers. SD humbuckers do have the "Seymour Duncan" logo embossed on them.


I was thinking of an old one. But looking at it again, it's missing the square hole, so I take it back.

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