Hi there!
Is there perhaps someone around here that could answer this? On older pre-1980 Fender single coils you often see these 'rings' or donuts as I like to call them, in the flatwork around the magnets. This picture of a '68 Telecaster bridge pickup shows what I mean:
These donuts appear either on the top of the pickup (e.g. the picture above) or on the bottom (e.g. old Tele neck pickups) but never simultaneously on top or bottom. They are there only on one side of the pickup, the side where the magnets are sticking out. On the other side where the magnets are totally flush with the bobbin they are absent. They must be some kind of tool mark and it came out like that from the factory. E.g. when Fender changed from flush to staggered magnets on Tele bridge PUs in '55 or so, you see the donuts flipping sides. First they were on the bottom and afterwards they appeared on the top
On some of the SD Antiquity PUs you can see the same thing but I never noticed any other PU manufacturer doing this. For fun I tried to replicate these tool marks but I couldn't. I tried undersized holes in the flatwork or no holes at all, as well as a a piece of metal with an oversized hole where the magnet comes out but all to no avail. Has anyone any idea how Fender did this?
Is there perhaps someone around here that could answer this? On older pre-1980 Fender single coils you often see these 'rings' or donuts as I like to call them, in the flatwork around the magnets. This picture of a '68 Telecaster bridge pickup shows what I mean:
These donuts appear either on the top of the pickup (e.g. the picture above) or on the bottom (e.g. old Tele neck pickups) but never simultaneously on top or bottom. They are there only on one side of the pickup, the side where the magnets are sticking out. On the other side where the magnets are totally flush with the bobbin they are absent. They must be some kind of tool mark and it came out like that from the factory. E.g. when Fender changed from flush to staggered magnets on Tele bridge PUs in '55 or so, you see the donuts flipping sides. First they were on the bottom and afterwards they appeared on the top
On some of the SD Antiquity PUs you can see the same thing but I never noticed any other PU manufacturer doing this. For fun I tried to replicate these tool marks but I couldn't. I tried undersized holes in the flatwork or no holes at all, as well as a a piece of metal with an oversized hole where the magnet comes out but all to no avail. Has anyone any idea how Fender did this?
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