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Post by antigua on Dec 22, 2019 14:17:00 GMT -5
There's another quality vintage style Strat pickup set currently available for on Amazon for $46, with fiberboard bobbins, AlNiCo pole pieces and woven hookup leads. Not so long ago, all you could get in this price range were steel pole pickups with a ceramic magnet underneath, and then later you could get actual AlNiCo pole pieces, but they came mounted in plastic bobbins, and if they were tape-wrapped, the tape was not as nice. The only thing that sets these apart from high priced boutique pickups is that the hookup wire, though it's a nice woven layer, is polyester over plastic, as opposed waxed cotton cloth wire that Fender, and most of the American pickup makers use. Note that all three pickups are 52mm pole piece spacing, so you can easily swap out the white Wilkinson covers with any other color, or re-use whatever came with the guitar. The middle pickups is RW/RP. The bridge and neck pickups weren't marked, you have to check the DC resistance to tell which is which. The bridge pickups has a slightly higher R,L,C values than the neck. The materials and the amount of chamfer on the pole pieces looks very GFS / Artec. At current pricing, these are about 3/4's the cost of comparable GFS sets, and most GFS sets are not tape wrapped. The capacitance is especially low on the neck and middle pickups, and about average on the bridge pickup. The AlNiCo 5, inductance and resonant peaks put these pickups in the area of Fender 57/62's, and in general, most of their vintage AlNiCo 5 pickup sets. Thus Belcat set was even cheaper at $20 www.strat-talk.com/threads/belcat-bs-01wh-analysis.527774/ , but this Wilkinson set more closely match with vintage Fender electrical values, the Belcats feature a lower inductance, even lower than CS 69's. Wilkinson Vintage Voice Alnico V ST Strat Set
Bridge - DC Resistance: 6.536K ohms - Measured L: 2.211H - Calculated C: 133.52pF - Gauss: 1050G (AlNiCo 5)
Middle - DC Resistance: 5.916K ohms - Measured L: 2.058H - Calculated C: 92.68pF - Gauss: 1020G (AlNiCo 5)
Neck - DC Resistance: 5.888K ohms - Measured L: 2.089H - Calculated C: 90.97pF - Gauss: 1100G (AlNiCo 5)
Bridge unloaded: dV: 14.8dB f: 9.48kHz (black) Bridge loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 7.2dB f: 4.17kHz (blue) Middle unloaded: dV: 14.6dB f: 10.7kHz (red) Middle loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 7.2dB f: 4.36kHz (green) Neck unloaded: dV: 14.6dB f: 10.7kHz (pink) Neck loaded (200k & 470pF): dV: 7.2dB f: 4.36kHz (black)
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