I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about them

[weisserj]

The guy who sold them to me guessed they were from the 80s. They are apparently humbuckers. If you can't tell from them photo they are red strat-style pickups. Maybe they are rare? I really want some info about these and would love to buy another set for one of my other strats...

thanks in advance

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

They might be hot strat stacks?

 

[weisserj]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

They might be hot strat stacks?

they look NOTHING like them though. I cannot find anything relativley close either. It has the SD logo (similar to the one on the top left of this page) on the center of each pickup. The guy I bought them from thought they were from the 80s but that was probably just a guess...

 

[KeeperOS]

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Can't say these ring any bells but could you take closer, more direct pictures of them because as it is at first I thought they were lipsticks...

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

It's a stack. Brent Mason has those in the middle position. I can't remember if it's a hot or classic style stack, but you could probably pull the cover and check it out, and also read the DC resisitance.

 

[jeremy]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

pretty sure its the old style hot stacks

 

[Kosh Naranek]

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I remember those. The Duncan Strat stacked coil pickups in the late 70's into the 80's had that red cover. I don't know if those would be the hot or vintage stacks. Whichever they are, Duncan has changed the cosmetics, but obviously still makes stacked Strat pickups in both hot and vintage outputs.

I have a pair of the newer hot stacks with the black cover and blade polepiece in the neck and middle spot of one of my guitars. They sound great.

 

[weisserj]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

I remember those. The Duncan Strat stacked coil pickups in the late 70's into the 80's had that red cover. I don't know if those would be the hot or vintage stacks. Whichever they are, Duncan has changed the cosmetics, but obviously still makes stacked Strat pickups in both hot and vintage outputs.

I have a pair of the newer hot stacks with the black cover and blade polepiece in the neck and middle spot of one of my guitars. They sound great.

Cool. Thanks to everyone for the help. Are the new ones basically the same or should I attempt to buy old ones like mine?

 

[weisserj]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

Can't say these ring any bells but could you take closer, more direct pictures of them because as it is at first I thought they were lipsticks...

I'll do that when I get home...

 

[John Wymore]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

They might be hot strat stacks?

Yes, I think that's what the original Hot Stacks looked like.

 

[DazH]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

seen one of those on ebay before, it was a stack & had a high dc resistance, so pretty much certainly a hot stack.

 

[jeremy]

Re: I cannot find ANY info on these SD pickups and I was wondering if you knew about

the old classic stack (not newer cs+) also had a high dc resistance but with many stacks those numbers are misleading. as far as i know the recent hot stacks are the same internally as the old ones.