This is a mid 1960s style strat pickup assembly with light grey fibre top and bottom plates and staggered height pole pieces.
American vintage grey bottom stratг single coil.
Bridge pickup position 2.
Until the mid 60s the top and bottom plates were black.
These pickups have a sweet fuzzy quality when pushed with a little gain and have crystalline clear clean tones.
1975 vintage fender stratocaster gray bottom flat pole bridge pickup 70 s.
The image below shows how this arrangement looks before the coil is wound.
Since leo fender initially introduced it in 1954 the traditional fender stratocaster has been known to have three single coil pickups and in the six plus decades since that historic day that design hasn t changed much.
Pickups as you d expect from a vintage fender are all single coils with enamel coated wire to keep things authentic and are finished in a parchment colour.
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In the late 60s the light grey plates were replaced with dark grey ones.
1969 1970 fender single coil guitar pickup vintage gray bottom.
I ve tried countless pickups and spent hundreds of dollars to no avail until i got a set of fender pure vintage 65 s.
Specially designed for this particular guitar the 65 grey bottom strat pickups are a matched set of bridge middle and neck single coils with traditional vintage coloured master volume and dual tone controls plus a five way selector switch.
Cosmetically these are the familiar grey bottom single coil design pickups and use alnico v magnets wire just like the originals.
Bridge and middle pickup position 3.
Fender telecaster neck pickup vintage 1978 black bottom 7 0k full leads.
That being said single coil pickups have certainly evolved over the years allowing players to get different tones while staying within the parameters of a strat.