Japanesevintage said:soundcreation said:which catalog?....the one linked in the very first post of this thread.
I realize the catalogs are not always right...but still....it's at least a guide of some kind.
seriously though....SD should really stamp their pickups....it would be nice to know for sure what's in my 250.
The archived website is right about the pickups.
As I wrote, the latest 250 were equipped with Antiquity pickups.
You can contact them if you want to know what's in yours. :wink:
Len said:Hey soundcreation,
the pickups you show are Duncan SSL-1s (identified by the 1 in the label)
R is the first letter of the winder?s name, so nothing to do with the model.
I wonder that the duncan support wouldn?t tell you that.
I have a set with exactly the same 1R sticker and from 1988 ...
soundcreation said:Len said:Hey soundcreation,
the pickups you show are Duncan SSL-1s (identified by the 1 in the label)
R is the first letter of the winder?s name, so nothing to do with the model.
I wonder that the duncan support wouldn?t tell you that.
I have a set with exactly the same 1R sticker and from 1988 ...
They could be SSL - 1's that's true....but I'm skeptical about the name part.
The SD guy sent me a link to their pickup codes pre 2002 and the "r" designation isn't even on there.
Add to that other people on the internet have said it stands for "reverse" as in reverse wound.
If you look here there are a lot of pickups with 1 in them on a sticker that are not SSL 1.
I suspect everyone is guessing about this one.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/faq/frequently-asked/everything-else/labels/labels/
But yes...based on the 1 and the triangle bottoms SSL 1 might be the best guess.
As I said...whatever they are...I LOVE them.
JVsearch said:Do you get the out of phase (hum cancelling) sounds in positions 2 and 4?
If so then the middle pickup will be reverse wound and reverse polarity. If that "R" means RWRP then I guess it indicates a set with a RWRP middle pickup?
Len said:I know that link. And please believe me, they must be SSL-1s
Your?s can be identified like this:
STRAT PICKUPS
1 triangular bottom, staggered poles SSL-1 Vintage Staggered
and this is important:
Note that the last letter on your label is often the initial of the Seymour Duncan employee who made the pickup.
So, that?s where the "R" comes from.
I don?t know who "R" is but he wound a lot of SSL-1s .
If they had been wound by Obama you would have a set of 1O stickers
All other models with a 1 in the name are not vintage looking single coils!
The newer pickups don?t have the winder?s letter on them but a lot of 90s pickups still have.
The "R" reverse wound thing is wrong for these, it?s often said by people who sell single pickups on ebay and don?t know better. Probably because with the newer Duncan models there is a reverse wound pickup available.
But you don?t have 3 reverse wound pickups in one strat - that doesn?t make sense
These are mine , measuring around 5,9 to 6 kOhm , your?s too ?
villager said:they were 185 then they changed to 200
youami said:And here's the Seymour Duncan series on the ESP website from a few years ago:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010815110507/www.espguitars.net/duncan/index.html
Personally, I don't. It's obviously swampash.villager said:no idea when they did it, possibly same time as the navs went from 380 to 480? that catalogue is 2001, this is a 94 model, dont think its alder, also it may be that the 200 was the highest model in 1994 and was swampash, again who knows..
Very nice figure, anyway.soundcreation said:
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