RAW Vintage Strat Pickups

[PAF-Boy]

I heard those Raw Vintage Pickups 50ties style strat pickups.Great tone.
The magnets were verry high on gauss but the bridge pickup (6,1 K ohm) sounded verry full, fat and loud compared to others.
Do you know what is the clue?

Tx P boi

[big_teee]

I heard those Raw Vintage Pickups 50ties style strat pickups.Great tone.
The magnets were verry high on gauss but the bridge pickup (6,1 K ohm) sounded verry full, fat and loud compared to others.
Do you know what is the clue?

Tx P boi

I like the older style pickups with a .1uf Cap, and 250k Pots, and 42 HFV Wire.
The .1uf has a deeper tone than the smaller ones most want to run today.
Good Luck,
Terry
Edit Note*
Some of the real early Strats had A3 Magnets.
That might be the tone your looking for with the parts I mentioned above.

[Jim Shine]

I guess we would have to now how they are constructed to get an idea. The real 50's Strat pickups had a coil that was slightly different than you see mass produced by places like Fender or Duncan. I notice a lot of guys get the coil shapes wrong when trying to replicate the 50's pickups. They wind to the turns of an old pickup with the same wire, but don't account for the older, taller coil profile, so the coil develops more girth. That can fatten the tone.

[big_teee]

I guess we would have to now how they are constructed to get an idea. The real 50's Strat pickups had a coil that was slightly different than you see mass produced by places like Fender or Duncan. I notice a lot of guys get the coil shapes wrong when trying to replicate the 50's pickups. They wind to the turns of an old pickup with the same wire, but don't account for the older, taller coil profile, so the coil develops more girth. That can fatten the tone.

Were they not still 11mm winding area inside the flats.
What was taller?
Give Dimensions?
With the parts today, we should be able to get real close.
And, I think Most of us do.
Terry

[copperheadroads]

I dont think they were taller than the standard height to get a fatter tone
Yes taller than those plastic bobbin strat coils ....

[PAF-Boy]

Thanks for you replies,
but In was not asking for the special incredents of the real old vintage pickups but the reason why the RAW Vintage pickups sound so special.
Here is a link. Raw Vintage

[big_teee]

Thanks for you replies,
but In was not asking for the special incredents of the real old vintage pickups but the reason why the RAW Vintage pickups sound so special.
Here is a link. Raw Vintage

You can make them the same way, and for a whole lot Less $$$ Money!
If you want that aged look he's got, Just beat the hell out of everything.
And, put a chunk of Black Kiwi Shoe Polish in your Wax Pot.
With all the Flatwork Parts, and magnets these day, No excuse to pay that kind of money for pickups.
As far as tone on single coils, 1. Magnets, 2. Spacing height, 3 Type of wire, 4. Amount of wire.
Don't forget Pots, and Caps.
Good Luck,
Terry

[copperheadroads]

A little bit of gun blue works wonders

[PAF-Boy]

Yo Terry,
I am not talking about the look.
Those pickups are realy loud, I was shocked wehn
I compared the bridge pickup to my Vintage wind.These pickups give you a verry loud and clear tone without getting thin at the bridge.The DCR of those is 5,7K 5,8K and 6,1K and there is not a real volume drop wehn switching trough the positions.

[big_teee]

Yo Terry,
I am not talking about the look.
Those pickups are realy loud, I was shocked wehn
I compared the bridge pickup to my Vintage wind.These pickups give you a verry loud and clear tone without getting thin at the bridge.The DCR of those is 5,7K 5,8K and 6,1K and there is not a real volume drop wehn switching trough the positions.

I read the website again.
He may be using .195 A5 Magnets.
I would definitely charge them to full strength.
The only way I know you could make it sound fat at 6.1 is to make the bobbin shorter.
Experiment, I bet you can dupe it!
T