Is this a Nocaster PUP???

[lostpick]

http://cgi.ebay.com/American-Fender-...QQcmdZViewItem

[Caper]

Nope, this is a Nocaster

[lostpick]

Wonder if it will get you in the ballpark
tonewise? Anybody have one??

http://cgi.ebay.com/American-Fender-...QQcmdZViewItem

[moonshiner]

I don't know if it's A3... I know they changed the pickups on the standard tele with the "hot" version.. from what I heard, it was the same physical specs wound to be 15k or so... maybe a query to Yegbert might yield a more suitable response...

[JohnnyCrash]

It sounds like it's an overwound A3 pickup... might get you in the ballpark of a Nocaster pickup.

Does it have a bottom plate?

I bet it'll sound nice regardless of how close it sounds to a Nocaster :)

[yegbert]

Maybe they are pulls from a current production Highway One™ Telecaster®. Fender's description of the pickups in those:

2 Hot Tele® Single-Coil Pickups with Alnico 3 Magnets (Neck & Bridge)

You can usually see the edge of a metal baseplate on a Fender Tele bridge pickup from an angle like those were photographed, and you can't see it on those. And the fact that the black top material looks just like the plastic on the Classic Series and American Series pickups, I'd bet they are using as many of the same parts and design processes as those Classic Series pups, including not having a baseplate.

The plastic bottoms (on the Classic Series pups) have raised bosses around the screws. Some folks cut them off to add a baseplate. I make larger holes in the baseplate to fit around the bosses and attach the baseplate to the pup bottom with the mystery screws Fender puts on them from the factory.



What I'd like to hear from someone here, is how do those pups sound in the new Hwy 1s compared to the older spec pups (which were the same as in the Classic '50s)? And what do they measure on an ohmeter?

Look at that picture of the pickup in the auction from reliablefender and compare it to ones from the Classic Series '50s and '69 Thinline.

The Classic Series have the hot lead (yellow) terminated on the left (then crossing over to the right), and the one that must be the Hwy 1 pup has the hot lead terminated on the right. That provides a useful means to distinguish them visually.

[lostpick]

are adding inductance to PUP
like a baseplate but not as extreme
an effect...I cant think of any other
reason they would be there.
Those alnico3 mags have sparked
my interest, and adding the plate
might get you into nocaster country.

[yegbert]

I measured the DC resistance of a set of pups on a '06 Highway 1 Tele today. The bridge was 14.5k and the neck was 11k.

[lostpick]

think it applies here??

[JohnnyCrash]

At 14.5, I'd bet so. Dang!

That's pretty hot, sheesh.

Got my GFS '60s HOT AlNiCo (9.6k AlNiCo V), I just need to finish the body and put everything together... then I'll post a review.

[refin]

Originally Posted by JohnnyCrash

At 14.5, I'd bet so. Dang!

That's pretty hot, sheesh.

Got my GFS '60s HOT AlNiCo (9.6k AlNiCo V), I just need to finish the body and put everything together... then I'll post a review.

I think you will really like that pup.....I adore mine.