Fender pickup bobbin color?

[parentheticalfact]

Did fender ever use white or cream bobbins in the 70's? I have a p-bass pickup with a 76 date stamp, plain enamel wire and very light (white or very very light grey aged to a cream yellow color) lacquered bobbin. Is this something fender actually used?

[David Schwab]

Someone posted a photo of a very light colored '74 P bass bobbin here.

Was it like this?



http://music-electronics-forum.com/t15728/

I have a '74 which is light gray (see below).

[parentheticalfact]

Someone posted a photo of a very light colored '74 P bass bobbin here.

Was it like this?



http://music-electronics-forum.com/t15728/

I have a '74 which is light gray (see below).

Looks exactly like that! Thanks David. I begin to believe you have pictures of every bass pickup conceived in your archives! I wasn't too sure because someone had stuck some dimarzio cream covers on, and I had never seen a fender pickup so light! Lacquered just like all the fenders I've seen, purpleish wire just like all the grey bottoms, stamped just like them, but strangely albino. The owner pulled them from his bass and put in duncans saying "there's no way they are stock, they're too light colored and sound weird!". They were wired in parallel I found out after he gave me the wiring harness. I tried to tell him, but he just didn't seem to care.
Well I guess these will be a good platform to create late 70's style pickups from.
You all let me know if you want any photos or specs about them before they go away.

[voodoochild]

That's the regular grey stuff. The grey material did and still does vary in color from batch to batch. It's the nature of the beast. I have seen it green, blue, grey, all sorts of hues.

[chevalij]

Looks exactly like that! Thanks David. I begin to believe you have pictures of every bass pickup conceived in your archives!

I think he has pictures of every PICKUP ever conceived!

[Chris Klein]

I think he has pictures of every PICKUP ever conceived!

That first image was not Davids!!! Read the thread he posts in his comment.

[chevalij]

That first image was not Davids!!! Read the thread he posts in his comment.

Well, he has it now...

[David Schwab]

Well, he has it now...

I actually just posted the link to the original image. But I did save a copy!

The attached photo is a bobbin I have. Can't find the other half either. That along with a Ripper pickup, a Rick bass bridge and truss rod cover, and a lot of guitar parts. I seemed to have lost a box in our last move.