American Vintage Grey Bottom Stratг Single Coil

This is a mid 1960s style strat pickup assembly with light grey fibre top and bottom plates and staggered height pole pieces.

American vintage grey bottom stratг single coil.

1969 1970 fender single coil guitar pickup vintage gray bottom. New american vintage 65 grey bottom strat single coil pickup bridge new american vintage 65 grey bottom strat single coil pickup middle new american vintage 65 grey bottom strat single coil pickup neck pickup switching. Pure vintage 65 strat pickup set vintage white 3 pure vintage pickup power from vintage bobbin construction to genuine original era cloth wiring all fender pure vintage pickups are wound to precise specifications for authentic traditional fender tone and performance. I ve tried countless pickups and spent hundreds of dollars to no avail until i got a set of fender pure vintage 65 s.

Specially designed for this particular guitar the 65 grey bottom strat pickups are a matched set of bridge middle and neck single coils with traditional vintage coloured master volume and dual tone controls plus a five way selector switch. I ve been on a seemingly endless quest for single coil strat pickups with great vintage tone. Bridge and middle pickup position 3. Sonically these sound in between the seymour duncan ssl 1 s and the antiquities with the output similar to the antiquity but a little more brightness closer to the sssl 1s in emphasis.

In the late 60s the light grey plates were replaced with dark grey ones. Pickups as you d expect from a vintage fender are all single coils with enamel coated wire to keep things authentic and are finished in a parchment colour. The image below shows how this arrangement looks before the coil is wound. These pickups have a sweet fuzzy quality when pushed with a little gain and have crystalline clear clean tones.

Since leo fender initially introduced it in 1954 the traditional fender stratocaster has been known to have three single coil pickups and in the six plus decades since that historic day that design hasn t changed much. Cosmetically these are the familiar grey bottom single coil design pickups and use alnico v magnets wire just like the originals. Bridge pickup position 2. That being said single coil pickups have certainly evolved over the years allowing players to get different tones while staying within the parameters of a strat.