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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I had it in an Explorer-shaped thing I built wired direct to the volume knob. The guitar always turned ears (if not heads)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
On a more serious note - the mid/late 70s four conductor ones (although they were really only a four conductor through the braid) were called the dual sound not the SD, which was purely a two conductor gavitt hookup as Oil City says. So yeh it's 80s at best.
splitable 70s DiMarzio did not have that wiring colour scheme either - I think you're piddling in the wind trying to nail it down to a year. But it's not 70s I'm afraid, baseplate looks absolutely genuine so it's a kosha pickup in itself.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Late '82 or early '83 is generally quoted as the cut-off for square feet. I used to spend a lot of time on one of the Hamer forums, and those guys are obsessive about their early Hamers. There is far more useful information about early Dimarzio pickups there than elsewhere.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
My early square foot Dual Sound is what I jokingly refer to as a 3.5 wire humbucker. As you rightly say the colours don't match the current colour schemes, but the pickups can be wired for series, parallel or split. The main limitation is that you can't flip the phase of the pickup.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
It's definitely a genuine Super Distortion, and definitely not seventies due to the triangle feet. But based on the type of shielded 4-conductor wire, the 'DP100' stamp on the baseplate and also the two rather than three holes in the top of the bobbins I think it is probably approx mid nineties. I can't remember exactly, but Dimarzio changed the bobbins in the early nineties - possibly '93?
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
At one point they were engraving the model number on the baseplate (like in the pic above). When did they stop doing this?