Description
Fender’s Pure Vintage series exists for one reason: to put the exact bobbin construction, magnet wire, and shellac-potting methods of the original era back into a pickup you can drop into your bass today. The ’63 Precision model recreates the sound that defined the P Bass in its second decade — thick, round in the low end, with a sweetness on top that modern high-output pickups tend to skip past.
Under the covers you’ll find Alnico 5 magnets doing the heavy lifting, giving the pickup a tighter focus and more dynamic response than the softer magnets used in earlier P Bass designs. The polepieces sit flush across each coil, which keeps string-to-string output even rather than favoring the E and A like some vintage-inspired designs do. Enamel-coated magnet wire is used instead of modern insulation, contributing to that warmer, slightly softer top-end character players associate with pre-CBS and early-CBS Fender tone.
Fender didn’t stop at the electronics — the build itself is period-correct, right down to the cloth wiring and fiber bobbins, and the coils are shellac-potted for microphonic control without killing the openness that makes vintage-style pickups feel alive under the hands.
- Enamel-coated magnet wire for warm, vintage-style tone
- Alnico 5 magnets for added focus and dynamics
- Flush-mount polepieces for even string-to-string response
- Shellac-potted construction
- Period-correct cloth wire and fiber bobbin build
A straightforward, well-researched upgrade for anyone chasing that early-’60s Precision growl.
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