Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

[Tompski]

I am fixing a MIJ Squire Strat from the 80s for a friend, it has two pickups that came with it in the bridge and middle positions, but my friend claims that the neck pup is a Seymour Duncan from around 1988, that he bought in London, I'm not so sure!
I can't find any identification on it at all, it is taller than normal single coil pickups, the coil itself is sealed in to the pickup cover with wax or plastic so you cannot take the cover off.
It measures 8.2K on my meter, the height screw holes are damaged so the pickup was just loose and low in the scrath plate, but even so this pickup sounds really good!
Any ideas?

 

[Tompski]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

No guesses?

 

[jeremy]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

doesnt look like any duncan ive ever seen

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

My initial guess is that it isn't a Duncan, but it is just because I've never seen a pickup like that before from anyone.

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

Those are cheap OEM asian p'ups. The whole thing is held by the candle wax.

Not to be played in very warm places like Arizona, mind you.

HTH,

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

But the cream covered ones with the waxed leads look much like Duncans. Sent more pics of them.

 

[Tompski]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

The guitar is an 80s MIJ Squire Strat, the cream/white pups are just the original pups, my friend would have been about 17 in 1988 and I think the guitar shop saw him coming and sold him something pretending it was a Duncan, and also neglected to tell him when they soldered it in for him it was out of phase (properly!) with the middle pickup giving horrible tinny tones in the neck/middle position, so I reversed the middle pickup's wires transferring the problem to Bridge/middle as the original pickups don't sound as good as this neck (stack?)
I think LTkojak is right this does look like the pickups you'll find in things like cheap Asian Strat copies, will it actually be a stack? as funnily enough I have played an Encore from the early 90s that had similar pickups and it also had great tone. Go figure!

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

It actually looks tall enough to be a Stack, but cheap enough to make me think it isn't.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Help me identify this 80s (possibly SD) pickup

its tall enough but if you look at it, the coil doesnt seem like its all that big and its only two conductor coming out of the wax