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Originally Posted by ezrydr
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Those are the CuNiFe magnetic polepieces, right?
Are the female threads those screw into, integral to the bobbins? It looks that way. Are those bobbins plastic?
I find it a bit of a surprise the threads on the polepieces are metric, given the design was by Seth Lover, presumably in the US and around 1971. Wonder why Fender had them made metric instead of SAE, maybe the threading work was done offshore?
It's a bit difficult read for my old eyes, but there's a factory blueprint as well as a picture of the pickup with the cover off, on page 61 of Duchossoir's
The Fender Telecaster. There's also some text describing its construction and the rationale for CuNiFe vs. AlNiCo on page 62.
I noticed the pickup in the Duchossoir book and one ezrydr pictured have white bobbins, but the one in the picture GUITARmole posted has black bobbins. The color shouldn't have any bearing on the performance of the pickup, just a bit of trivia.