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Strat pickup under a Jazzmaster cover

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SeziertischSeziertisch Frets: 1436
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Suggestions needed for how to be best go about doing this. Get something custom wound, or modify a cover to work as a pickup ring?
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  • punchesjudypunchesjudy Frets: 1091
    Buy a mij jm pickup. They’re more Strat than jm anyways. 
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 15262
    Under their covers, the Fender V-Mod pickups on the first generation American Professional Jazzmaster feature tallish, narrowish coils. (They are a bit like those Gibson pickups that resemble a P90 but with individual rod magnet polepieces.) 

    Many owners upgrade to proper JM pickups. One person I know locally keeps his stock pickups just in case he elects to sell the guitar in future.

    Hopefully, you can find an owner who will never reinstate his or her V-Mod JM pickups.
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  • LebarqueLebarque Frets: 4126
    In the grand scheme of things, strat pups aren't much different to JM pickups. Embrace the jazz!
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 74475
    punchesjudy said:
    Buy a mij jm pickup. They’re more Strat than jm anyways. 
    Which is exactly why they're the first thing any MIJ Jazzmaster owner replaces.

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  • punchesjudypunchesjudy Frets: 1091
    ICBM said:
    punchesjudy said:
    Buy a mij jm pickup. They’re more Strat than jm anyways. 
    Which is exactly why they're the first thing any MIJ Jazzmaster owner replaces.
    Yep. 
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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10343
    I'd try 250k pots first.
    I definitely makes a JM sound more strat like
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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  • SeziertischSeziertisch Frets: 1436
    ICBM said:
    punchesjudy said:
    Buy a mij jm pickup. They’re more Strat than jm anyways. 
    Which is exactly why they're the first thing any MIJ Jazzmaster owner replaces.
    I actually have a couple of those MIJ pickups lying around, I could probably get someone like Q pickups to make me a “classic” Strat version of the MIJs for what it would cost to get them rewound
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