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  • Please help to identify old Duncan pickups

    Please help me to identify the old HSH Duncan set. This was installed into 1991 Ibanez RG somewhere in the 1990s.

    The neck and bridge say 59NJ and 58BJ respectively. I assume this is 59 set. The single coil says 2B on the sticker and clocks at 6.99k.

    The printings on the stickers are quite pale, but I did my best.

    Thanks

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    Re: Please help to identify old Duncan pickups

    Nice set. Definitely a vintage 59 Neck and 59 Bridge, both wound by MJ who now winds all the Custom Shop pickups.
    Can't be sure about the singlecoil but I imagine its likely to be an SSL-1 [EDIT:SSL-2], great sounding classic Strat pickup.
    (The SSL-2 is the non-staggered version of the SSL-1.Same wind & magnets, just with flat poles.)

    EDIT: The Duncan website is still malfunctioning after an upgrade last Spring so it won't display the DCR spec for the SSL-2,but your reading actually sounds a bit high for an SSL-2, so perhaps it's a different model
    Last edited by eclecticsynergy; 07-11-2020, 11:52 PM.
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    • #3
      Re: Please help to identify old Duncan pickups

      Originally posted by eclecticsynergy View Post
      Nice set. Definitely a vintage 59 Neck and 59 Bridge, both wound by MJ who now winds all the Custom Shop pickups.
      Can't be sure about the singlecoil but I imagine its likely to be an SSL-1, great sounding classic Strat pickup.
      Good set, indeed. Thanks!
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        Re: Please help to identify old Duncan pickups

        6.99k is a little high for a ssl2 but duncan doesnt really have anything around 7k so could totally be a ssl2. flat poles?

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          Re: Please help to identify old Duncan pickups

          Originally posted by jeremy View Post
          6.99k is a little high for a ssl2 but duncan doesnt really have anything around 7k so could totally be a ssl2. flat poles?
          Yes, flat poles
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