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Post subject: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:37 pm
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I was ready to load a Fender aftermarket pickup in the neck position. When I got the pick guard off and the pickup exposed was surprised to see the pick ups had two magnets on the bottom of the PU. What are these pick ups? I decided to hold off close her up and get a little more information on what kind of fender humbucker and single coil pups I have here. The guitar does sound pretty good through my BM DC-5. Any body have any good information on what came loaded from the Mexican shop??


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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:56 pm
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They are budget-level ceramic pickups, standard in most MIM Strats. The magnetic field is generated by those strips located at the bottom of the bobbins. The visible pole pieces at the top are merely steel slugs.

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Post subject: Re: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:00 pm
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I was ready to load a Fender aftermarket pickup in the neck position. When I got the pick guard off and the pickup exposed was surprised to see the pick ups had two magnets on the bottom of the PU. What are these pick ups? I decided to hold off close her up and get a little more information on what kind of fender humbucker and single coil pups I have here. The guitar does sound pretty good through my BM DC-5. Any body have any good information on what came loaded from the Mexican shop??



They are standard plastic bobbin ceramic magnet steel rod pickups single coils.
The humbucker is a standard Tex Mex 8.5 Kohm Alnico 5.

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Post subject: Re: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:01 pm
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They are budget-level ceramic pickups, standard in most MIM Strats. The magnetic field is generated by those strips located at the bottom of the bobbins. The visible pole pieces at the top are merely steel slugs.

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Lol hi Arjay

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Post subject: Re: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:05 pm
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They are Fender's "Standard" pickups. Basically, they are an inexpensive version of a basic single-coil pickup. Rather than using individual Alnico rod magnets, they use steel poles that are energized by ceramic bar magnets. A lot of people tend to swap them out for something "better", but a lot of people also prefer them over the American Standard (not the Fat 50's) Alnico pickups. I have a set of these Mexican ceramic pickups loaded in a cheap Squier Strat and they sound OK to me.

As for the humbucker, however, I don't know enough about the Mexican Standard to effectively answer your question. But in general, there seems to be an implication that many of Fender's humbuckers are actually the same but with different names.


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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:09 pm
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They are Fender's "Standard" pickups. Basically, they are an inexpensive version of a basic single-coil pickup. Rather than using individual Alnico rod magnets, they use steel poles that are energized by ceramic bar magnets. A lot of people tend to swap them out for something "better", but a lot of people also prefer them over the American Standard (not the Fat 50's) Alnico pickups. I have a set of these Mexican ceramic pickups loaded in a cheap Squier Strat and they sound OK to me.

As for the humbucker, however, I don't know enough about the Mexican Standard to effectively answer your question. But in general, there seems to be an implication that many of Fender's humbuckers are actually the same but with different names.




Well the humbuckers are not the same there is about 4 models the most common is the standard DH1 and the Atomic DH1. The standard is a 8.5K and I see they have started running Alnico 2 instead of Alnico 5 in it. The Atomic is about a 16k Alnico 5 like a JB Duncan.

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Post subject: Re: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:57 pm
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Hey thank to all for the responses. Great info. I have decided to load a 57 - 62 Fender PU in neck, Fender 50's fat strat in middle, and a Seymour Duncan PAF in bridge. And yes I am chasing tone.


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Post subject: Re: 2001 MIM HSS Pickups
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:41 am
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The single coil pickups in those are far from ideal, never got along with them at all, the bridge humbucker is pretty workable imho, does anybody know exactly the specs for these? In the diagram they are listed as "Pickup, Bridge, Humbucker Std, Wide White" with a part no. of 0050950000, google turns up little on these.


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