Vintage Jazz Bass pup question

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TremoloKing

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This is a pretty insignificant issue but...

I just built a bass for my son with a pair of SJB-1 pickups. Curiously, the pole pieces are about flush with the flat work, meaning that they don't protrude through the covers at all. In fact, they don't even poke up into the holes in the covers. This makes them look "wrong".

They do, however, protrude slightly through the BOTTOM of the flatwork, almost the amount I would have expected them to stick out through the TOP.

So what bothers me (beyond that fact that they look "wrong") is the prospect that there might be something incorrect in their manufacturing.

Could this have been done this way so solid covers can be used on them?
 
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Re: Vintage Jazz Bass pup question

All the ones I have here on the shelf have pole pieces level with the top of the pickups cover. I'd return them for a different set ...
 
Re: Vintage Jazz Bass pup question

My son doesn't want me to take them out of the bass.

My main concern is that someone at some time pushed the pole pieces down, maybe to put a solid cover on it.

I assume that these pickups are constructed like vintage Fenders where the coil is wound around the magnets.

So that makes me nervous that if someone did that AFTER they were made they could have damaged the windings.
 
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