ID a strat pickup bobbin

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Orville

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I had the great honor of meeting Seymour Duncan in person in the mid 90's at a Vintage Guitar show in the Bay area- San Jose to be specific. He had a booth and was actually winding pickups while he was there. My friend that was with me talked me into asking him if he'd rewind a set of strat pickups for me. He was totally cool and said he would. When I gave him the set he looked at the bobbins and didn't care for them so he wound me a new set with bobbins he had on hand. I used them until I sold the guitar ( it was a middle of the road strat copy) at which time I took them out. I have not used them since and as I was young and not likely to have had good tone taste yet I don't have an idea what they sound like. I do know the bridge measures 6.3 ohms, and the middle and neck measure 6.1 ohms.
On the bottom of the staggered pole bobbins the following is stamped

SD 2 92 on two of the bobbins and SD 2 89 on the other.

I am guessing SD is for Seymour Duncan and the 92 / 89 are the year made. I am wondering if the 2 is indicating alnico II. Seymour asked me what sound I was looking for and I think I said something stratty but maybe a little warmer... I think.
Sorry for the long story, bottom line is I am trying to figure out what I have, aside from a set of pickups hand wound for me by the master!
Any guesses would be appreciated!
Thanks as always.
 
Re: ID a strat pickup bobbin

could be anything since he wound them right there on the spot. those markings dont really tell much
 
Re: ID a strat pickup bobbin

jeremy said:
could be anything since he wound them right there on the spot. those markings dont really tell much
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I forgot which pickup it was, but he was winding a model he was selling. His winder wasn't there just to take requests from people coming to the show. That said yeah it's a shot in the dark. The stagger looks like the SSL-1 or alnico II pro stagger. Mostly I am curious to know which magnet they are. The strat I am considering throwing them in have a G&L type PTB wiring as well as a pull pot to bring in the neck pickup whenever, so I want my repair guy to do the swap out since it's not a typical job and my skills in this area are basic. Basically tryingto decide if I want to pull out a solid set of Suhr V70's that I like but curiosity of what these custom wound pups sound like is building !
 
Re: ID a strat pickup bobbin

between the ssl1 and aps1, its almost impossible to tell visually. either way that should be a great set of strat pups!
 
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