Vintage 68

Vintage 68 Strat pickups – a faithful replica of the pickups manufactured by Fender during the CBS era, delivering a classic Hendrix-style tone.

The Vintage 68 pickups are a replica of those manufactured by Fender at the time when CBS bought the company from Leo Fender (around 1965). They are made of copper wire 42 AWG Plain enamel, staggered alnico V magnet and black Forbon coil for the top piece and gray for the lower one. This model produces a Hendrix-style tone, but with the central pickup wound in the modern way with RW/RP. Thus the pickups are in phase, with humbucking effect at positions 2 and 4. We also offer the set with the original features. If you’re right-handed we can reverse the order of the magnets so that the configuration of the pickups is fully Hendrix-ish.