~1973 Fender Stratocaster Single Coil pickups
Offered for sale:
Used c1973 Fender Stratocaster single coil pickups, Imperial Guitar inventory numbers 24 A, B and C.
These pickups are fully functional, sold as a set of three and are sold as is.
Pickup A measures 5.47K Ohms, pickup B is 5.58K and pickup C is 5.60K.
Pickup A has a white (faded to crème) cover and adjusting screws and springs, pickup B has a more yellowed cover and no screws and springs, pickup C has a crème cover and adjusting screws and springs.
Imperial Guitar states:
One of the pickups appears to have flat pole pieces.
However, they are slightly staggered but in a different way that what you would normally see on an early ‘70s pickup.
Both “E” poles are about as low as on the “B” of are typical ’73.
The “A” & “B” are about as high as a ’73 “A”.
The “D” & “G” are slightly higher than the “A” or “B” but not as high as a ’73 “G”.
This makes the stagger more in line with the fretboard radius.
We haven’t found any information about this but perhaps Fender was experimenting with a different stagger pattern.
All three pickups are stamp dated ’73.
One of the fully staggered is stamped in black ink.
The other fully staggered is stamped in red ink.
The modified stagger is also stamped in red ink.
These are our observations.
Ships via USPS.
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