Fender Tex-Mex set

GinoAmes

GinoAmes

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New lower priceNo longer on sale shipped con-usHowdy, I have a set of Fender Tex-Mex singles up for sale/trade.
will post pics soon!
Full set with RW middle pick up Shipped in con-us
will ship with white covers.
trades? sure, whatcha got? looking for a phaser pedal, tele pups, flanger, delay
 
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Re: Fender Tex-Mex set

This is why I no longer purchase without photos. Those are not Tex-Mex pickups.

Tex-Mex pickups come on plastic formed bobbins (same bobbins as Fender USA pickups). Also, Tex-Mex pickups don't have vintage wire like that. They have modern vinyl wire in white red and blue? I think. What ever the color code is, Tex-Mex are coded for Neck, Middle and Bridge.

Since your pickups have vintage wire and vintage bobbins, they might be something more valuable than Tex-Mex. Or, who knows, they might be cheaper Korean pickups. I have no idea other than I bought some unknown pickups here once and did a lot of reseach on many forums to find out the ones I bought were Tex-Mex, so I know positively what those are and what they look like.

I suggest you perform an ohm reading on each pickup and do some reseach to try and figure out what these are.
 
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wackey! I got them from my buddy who took them out of his Fender Road Worn 60's Stratocaster. Fender listed them as Tex-Mex pickups so that's what I called them.
 
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Well, they don't look like Tex Mexes, that's for sure.

Is it possible there was a specs change on the Road Worn Series that you missed? Perhaps the older ones had different pickups.

If not, I'd drop an e-mail to Fender. Get the serial of the guitar from your friend to use when you ask them.
 
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I have Tex Mex pups in one of my own strats...They don't have cloth wiring..

Measure the dc resistances...They read high in the over 7k ranges also..
 
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TEX Mex

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STRATDELUXER97 said:
TEX Mex

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Yes. Each pickup is color coded (white / yellow / red) because they must go in the specific location of neck, middle, bridge.

I like my set, but I wired a tone to the bridge and installed a Callaham pickup plate to fatten the tone.
 
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DonP said:
Yes. Each pickup is color coded (white / yellow / red) because they must go in the specific location of neck, middle, bridge.

I like my set, but I wired a tone to the bridge and installed a Callaham pickup plate to fatten the tone.
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I adjusted the pole heights on mine and adjust them down a bit...I Like em! Sorry to hijack the post..
 
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It's all good. I have not heard from Fender, I also posted on their Forum. So far, no response.
Everything I have read about the Road worn series says Tex-Mex....but they sure don't look like Tex-Mex. Hopefully someone over in Fender land can help out![/B]
 
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oh, and hey Stratdeluxe97. where in Florida are you? I just relocated from Maine, know of any cool guitar shops?
 
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So I heard from some Fender people...good news for me!
The pups come from a Road Worn Player series and have been told they are Texas Specials!I think I'll hold on to them for now, thanks for turning me on to this!
 
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I have two of the Tex-Mex single coils from a HSS MIM Fender. I was going to exploit the plastic bobbin construction to reset the magnet stagger for selling to a certain left-handed forum bro.

Nice pickups but not killer!
 
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Funkfingers said:
I have two of the Tex-Mex single coils from a HSS MIM Fender. I was going to exploit the plastic bobbin construction to reset the magnet stagger for selling to a certain left-handed forum bro.

Nice pickups but not killer!
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Once you fix the messed up pole staggers and adjust the pickup heights down a bit,they are great pickups..
 
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STRATDELUXER97 said:
Once you fix the messed up pole staggers and adjust the pickup heights down a bit,they are great pickups..
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I regard the Tex-Mex single coils as a slightly overwound version of the old Fender Am Std offering.
 
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