Nice pics Andy!
Cheers Rob
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bor64 wrote:Hi Roger,
Fender had at times,trouble to keep up the demand so the factory and all the suppliers had to be on their toes to fulfil orders....
So it's not rare to find pu's with different magnet length then normal on their allocated place...they used what the had.
In '59 they made apparently quiet some strat pu's with on the G pole a magnet that was normally placed beneath the high E string...perhaps someone made some mistakes or they lacking the right magnets.
I encounter 3 time such a set, one in the 34346...on a genuine "59 slabboard and a set for sale in the early 80's which didn't buy because I thought they where dodgy ....watta mistaka da maka (cpt Burtorelli 'ello 'ello).
Hank didn't fiddle with the magnets for sure, because he lacked the knowledge and if he did tried, you wouldn't play a fiesta red strat now... because he had ruined the strat pu's!
When you push a magnet down in a pu that's build like the old ones, you destroy the pu's windings!
On cheap modern ones,with a plastic bobbin in one piece and the windings don't touches the magnets you have a change it works.
The original 34346 pu's have flush magnets at their bottom bobbin so no tampering there...
I know a member on one of the shad sites, who's 63 strat has the stagger on all 3 pu's diffrently...kinda all over the place!
Fender changed in the early 50's on the tele once and on the strat twice the stagger 54/ 55 and late 56 is different and in 74 they changed to all the same heights...
So Roger your assumption is just that
Cheers Rob
abstamaria wrote:It is quite funny, Rob, but I stumbled onto a 2012 discussion here, where you snd I participated, on the same subject. It seems the pickups on 34346 are very similar to those on 1954-55 Strats. Which may explain the pickups on mine; I probably asked Fender to make me a ‘59 spec Strat. The subject of the thread was damage to 34346, started by Jim, but drifted off to pole pieces.
Very interesting thread, that 3012 one. I had forgotten it!
Regards,
Andy
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