getting my pickup repaired.

The pickups arrived today. I have pictures I'm uploading to post on this thread.
neck (original pickup) 5.65k
middle - 5.73k
bridge - 5.79k
Bottomline; these pickups look and sound like original 1966 strat pickups. They have that beautiful glassy clean tone and amazing articulation and detail with tube saturation and distortion.

A lot of strat pickups turn to mush when a tube amp is pushed into distortion....those are the hot wound ones 6.75k, 7.00k and above.

These milder wound pickups just handle distortion better. I put the face of the guitar up against a cranked tube amp and the pickups didn't go all microphone on me. They are an awesome set of pups!
John Galep - (Dawgtown pickups), the guy who fixed my original and built the matched pair is a pleasure to deal with. He did more than I expected and charged me less that I agreed to pay.
Pics and sound clips to come!
 
Oka, here are the pickups as they arrived. I sent my pickup without the cover, mounting screw, or springs. He fixed it and included a cover, mounting screws and rubber sleeves.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/twc4kwrqtukgcgb/20161026_194024.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lokzdtk92dbx4fm/20161026_193105.jpg?dl=0

Here is a closeup of my original - top, bottom and side view
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lwr9p23y06fvels/20161026_194159.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/28p8tdwzp351uwq/20161026_194140.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cz7fkq5b673eeck/20161026_194210.jpg?dl=0

Here is a close up of the matching pair John made for me - top, bottom, and side view
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lj5kle0596ctejv/20161026_194325.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6q751wj1y9wwl0f/20161026_194403.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/88ullo3gfop6b6z/20161026_194431.jpg?dl=0
 
I back went with the original springs and the old covers
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a455tfjnu1tyuwz/20161026_140809.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jne4m11bkeo72xt/20161026_141343.jpg?dl=0

Here they are mounted in the pickguard
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bf7ullhztzov35/20161026_200413.jpg?dl=0

The tone pots, resistors, and wire are original untouched. The volume pot is aftermarket fender NOS. The wire from the input jack is plastic covered and the ground wire from the bridge is plastic covered. I'm going to replace it with the cloth covered push back wire but I didnt' feel like messing with it last night.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/31khknj7y69f3dx/20161026_204919.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/su7409pw4cx65hf/20161026_204938.jpg?dl=0

Got them installed and soldered....all nice and tidy
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k8s80f3b8vha56b/20161026_205027.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5v1ugfkbs5gxrpf/20161026_211641.jpg?dl=0
 
just an observation ..... read an article by a p'up designer (forgot who) and he said the resistance of a p'up tells you nothing about it's output and/or tone.

His example .... take a hot p'up, measure its resistance and see how loud it is.
Then remove the magnets .... it will measure exactly the same but it will have almost no output.

He says he has a tele p'up that measures around 3.8k and it's loud as hell and he's seen high resistance p'ups that weren't.

So to him, the magnet makes the big difference.

Gotta gig in a bit ..... I'll try to listen later.
 
^^^^
That's true. I've had vintage p90 pups that only read 4 to 6 k be louder than ones wound over 10k.
Audio output and coil resistance are two seperate things.

Ayway @ jimistone.
Glad you're handled your pup scene.
 
With very hot modern pickups, >16k, you start to get inductance too which counteracts the resistance negating any perceived benefit of a hot pickup. I think there are ways around this but it's something to be aware of.
 
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