Description
Some pickups chase a modern ideal of “vintage.” The Pure Vintage ’65 Stratocaster set just goes back and does it the way Fullerton did it in 1965 — fiber bobbins, cloth-covered lead wire, and construction methods lifted straight from the original spec sheet rather than reverse-engineered from a reissue.
The tone reflects that authenticity. These are meaty-sounding single coils with a clear, glassy top end that made mid-’60s Strats the go-to for surf and clean rhythm tones, but there’s enough body underneath to keep the sound from thinning out when you dig in. Enamel-coated magnet wire is a big part of that warmth, giving the pickups a rounder, less clinical edge than modern insulation typically allows.
Alnico 5 magnets anchor the output with tighter low-end focus and a livelier response to pick dynamics, while staggered polepieces keep each string balanced in volume — no weak G string, no runaway B. Everything is wax-potted to control microphonic squeal and unwanted feedback without dulling the pickup’s natural voice.
- Enamel-coated magnet wire for warm, vintage-correct tone
- Alnico 5 magnets for focus and dynamic response
- Staggered polepieces for balanced string-to-string output
- Wax-potted construction
- Period-correct cloth wire and fiber bobbins
If you want your Strat to sound like it just rolled out of the ’60s, this is the set that gets you there.
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