are these Lindy Fralin humbuckers?

Ro_S

Ro_S

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Can anyone identify the pick-ups pictured below, please?

It's speculated that they are Lindy Fralin pickups. I don't understand the reasoning. They're not marked underneath.

Their DC resistance output is about 16k and 8k.

I had a look at the Lindy Fralin website; I couldn't find any current models of humbucker pick-up of theirs with output that high.

The guitar is a Hofner made in limited numbers in about 2003. I believe these are the stock pick-ups used on that model.


 
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Re: are these Lindy Fralin humbuckers?

No pics of underneath of p'ups, no can do.

Take a ruler and measure the polepiece spreads.

If it's 50mm and 52mm then they're asian OEM p'ups.
 
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Ro_S said:
Can anyone identify the pick-ups pictured below, please?

It's speculated that they are Lindy Fralin pickups. I don't understand the reasoning. They're not marked underneath.

Their DC resistance output is about 16k and 8k.

I had a look at the Lindy Fralin website; I couldn't find any current models of humbucker pick-up of theirs with output that high.

The guitar is a Hofner made in limited numbers in about 2003. I believe these are the stock pick-ups used on that model.
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Cant really tell without seeing the bottom but Lindy does a lot of special order stuff.
 
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I'll measure the spacing of the pole pieces and check underneath them, and come back. thanks.

An additional bit of info: I read somewhere online that someone contacted Lindy Fralin to find out about these humbuckers used on this guitar model, but Lindy Fralin would neither confirm or deny whether they were their pickups.
 
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Linda likes low output pickups. his philosophy is to get the Tone from the pickups and let the amp make it loud. I cant imagine him winding a 16k.
 
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dotsdad said:
Linda likes low output pickups. his philosophy is to get the Tone from the pickups and let the amp make it loud. I cant imagine him winding a 16k.
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I have two sets of Fralins and both are smoking hot. I have Lindey's High Output/Pure PAF set and a set of Fralin Metal SHO (Super High Output) pickups. The SHO are not 16K but pretty close.
 
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dotsdad said:
Linda likes low output pickups. his philosophy is to get the Tone from the pickups and let the amp make it loud. I cant imagine him winding a 16k.
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Securb said:
I have two sets of Fralins and both are smoking hot. I have Lindey's High Output/Pure PAF set and a set of Fralin Metal SHO (Super High Output) pickups. The SHO are not 16K but pretty close.
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I was about to say that I'm pretty sure Fralin offers some hot pickups...
 
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Okay, so I managed to have a proper look at the pickups...

Neither of the pickups are marked or labelled in any way other than a 'F' and 'R' in circles, stamped into the baseplate, on the neck and bridge pickups respectively.

Do the F and R simply designate 'front' [neck] and 'rear' [bridge]' ?
 
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