Interesting situation on my Wagner Pickups

[JumpMarine]

While in the process of trying to trace the bad ground on my R7 I pulled the Wagner pups which are supposed to be Goodwoods. First off these are truly amazing pups and the only thing that would compare would be Antiquities or CS pups due to the complexity of the tone. Back to the story....I measured the pups and they read 13.3k on the bridge and 10.6k on the neck, but yet they were pure PAF tone. That didn't sound like the measurements from what I remember Lee_M telling me and he was just passing along what the original owner had told him. I emailed Jim Wagner about ID'ing the pups and they were definatly his, but they were the Fillmore set and not the Goodwoods. This is not a bad thing, but just not what I thought they were. I've corrisponded with the original owner a couple of times and he has several sets of Wagner's in various guitars, looks as if he forgot what set was in which guitar. Old age will get you everytime! LOL!!!

 

[FretFire]

Re: Interesting situation on my Wagner Pickups

From what I've heard, Jim uses a bit different techniques when winding and potting his pickups that for some reason allows his high output pickups to not sound high output. Not sure what any of that means, but that's what I've read :laugh2:.

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: Interesting situation on my Wagner Pickups

That is definatley the result. I knew that they were fairly hot pups, but they didn't compress the sound like higher output. They are keepers, I'm wondering what's under the hood now, zebra or black.........