PUP GURUS: Can you identify these pups?

theyre recent fender jazz pickups. theyve used pickups with those plastic bobbins in the american standards,classic 60's, highway one, and road worn jazzes.

 

yep, plastic-bobbin'ed fender american standard pickups; not the best, but decent. (they went to nice vintage-construction pickups on all the american standard instruments a year or two ago.)

what bass is that? those aren't american standard saddles.

 

Ehh, I prefer the plastic one piece bobbins over two piece bobbins held together with by the poles. Of course that's only if I am winding them, vintage construction, especially grey bobbin material and cloth covered wire doesn't really matter to me.

 

supposedly the tradeoff is that you have a layer of plastic between the coil wire and the magnets, meaning the gap is that much bigger, changing the sound a little.

 

When I wind, or rewind a set of pickups, I always give the poles a wrap of tape anyway to keep the wire off of them.

 

right, but that tape isn't as thick as the bobbin's insulation layer of molded plastic, is it?

also, as i understand it fender did that in the '70s (?) and whatever kind of tape they used went bad over the decades and ate through the coil insulation, which is why we see so many dead '70s jazz pickups.

 

like i said, american standard, pre '12 when they went to nice custom shop pickups.

and still wondering what bass that is, because it does not have an american standard bridge.