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Topic: Fender Deluxe 6 String Replacement Pickups |
Sean Jenkins
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Mar 2018 5:27 pm |
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I am in the process of putting together a Fender Deluxe 6 string steel from parts. It’s the model with 2 pickups and blend knob. Does anyone know if you can use a standard single coil Strat size pickup in this? Or is the size and pole spacing different from a standard single coil 6 string guitar pickup?
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George Piburn
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The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Posted 27 Mar 2018 9:25 am Dual Fender pickups
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Sonny ,
For what you want to do you need a matched Set of Fender retro 6 string-master pickups.
They need to be regular and one reversed winding and a few more technical details. Most of the pickup makers do them now , - Rio Grande - Tom Brantly - are 2 off the top of my head , but thre are several others.
Hopefully the Fender afficianadoes will chime in with more suggestions.
The wireing is also an issue to get correct with the blend and tone pot -
Basically these are set up so the blend knob adds the front pickup to rear which is always on full. the tone is for both , and particular value - 1 meg , the others are 250k.
There are schematics for this available.
The stringmaster pickups have some where in the 42 gauge 8500 windings range , -- different from Tele and Strat versions. As well they have different magnet spacings. and different magnet lengths.
Sorry to get your name incorrect , I thought it was Sonny from Texas.
Glad to Help You
George -io
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Last edited by George Piburn on 28 Mar 2018 9:24 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2018 10:01 am Re: Dual Fender pickups
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Please forgive me if this is drifting just a tad off topic, but at least there is a tangential relationship to "Dual Fender pickups." The pickups on the Ultratone pictured are custom-made 7-string reverse-wound Stringmaster-type pickups from Jerry Sentell.
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| The wireing is also an issue to get correct with the blend and tone pot |
I found that out the hard way on my "Ultramaster" conversion:
I followed this Seymour Duncan wiring diagram:
I have double- and triple- checked my work and it still isn't right. Any suggestions? |
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2018 10:27 am
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Jack,
I believe that Seymour Duncan diagram is wrong about the pot wiring. If you wire it as shown as the "Bottom View of Baseplate" (which I took to mean underside), your volume and tone pots will operate counter-clockwise instead of clockwise. Is that how yours is working? The Seymour Duncan drawing is based on the also incorrectly labeled original Fender drawing. I never said anything because I figured I was just an idiot that couldn't properly read the diagram. |
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Sean Jenkins
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2018 5:45 am
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Thanks for the replies fellas. Because I’m in a little bit of a hurry to get this steel up and running, I was hoping I could order a couple Strat pickups and drop them in there... but it looks like I may need something with custom spacing to fit the strings. So I’ll wait till the parts are delivered and take some measurements. Once I get everything measured out, I’ll post an update.
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Sean Jenkins
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2018 8:46 pm
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I contacted Jerry Sentell about pickups and he is going to make a custom pair. Very quick response to my message. Just needed to send measurements and he said he can make pickups to fit. Below are images with measurements for reference.
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George Geisser
From:
Branson, Missouri, USA
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Posted 2 Aug 2018 6:10 pm WTB 6 String kluson or old Fender stamped tuner tray
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| Needing any old 6 string chrome tray . Thanks |
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