Early Cunetto Era Bridge Pickup

Several years back, a former guitar tech removed the bridge pickup from my Cunetto era nocaster. He told me that it was defective as it registered 11.01on his multimeter. I took his word for it as I was a beginner player.

I think that I found the pickup, but it does not look like a modern nocaster pickup (zink baseplate) as it has a copper baseplate. My questions is did early Cunetto era nocaster pickups have copper baseplates? I know that they were hotter than usual in the early days.

Thanks.

Sounds like you got royally hosed.

I have a friend that had 2 of those guitars. The bridge pickups had copper baseplates and they both were about 10.5k

FWIW, those are my favourite Tele bridge pickups.

I still have the pickup. Just put in an unmarked box in the back of my closet. I am just making sure that there were some produced in that era that had copper rather than zink baseplates. Sounds like you got royally hosed.

I have a friend that had 2 of those guitars. The bridge pickups had copper baseplates and they both were about 10.5k

FWIW, those are my favourite Tele bridge pickups.

Saturday Bump
I still have the pickup. Just put in an unmarked box in the back of my closet. I am just making sure that there were some produced in that era that had copper rather than zink baseplates.