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I wouldn’t suggest it for several reasons. The pole spacing on the Jaguar is narrower than the Stratocaster,and the Strat pickguard would have to be modified to fit the Jaguar pickup with existing cover and steel claw. The pickup needs to be tapped 6/32 to accommodate the two height adjust screws. I would suggest finding…

The larger the diameter of the string, which is often called “music wire”, is actually spring steel. The increase in diameter moves more of the magnet field through the coil thus producing a stronger signal to the amplifier. I remember a band in Southern, New Jersey during the mid sixties called the “Sterling Brother” and…

The pickups will fit into the older style Firebird mounting rings and modification has to be done to have height adjustment. On the Deluxe mini humbuckers the height adjustment is done with a spacer between the leg and modified P-90 cover. The 3/48 machine screw is screwed into a threaded ferrule pressed into the bottom…

During the early days of Fender they used a company called Race and Olmsted which was near the Fender plant in Fullerton, California. They used a treatment called case hardening or surface hardening of the steel bridge plates. The surface hardness of steels can be changed by a surface hardening treatment. This can give the surface of the steel…

Fender pickups that have #016730 molded on the bottom can be modified to be humbucking when used in the 2 & 4 position of your lever switch. First check to see if the polarity is the same or opposite from your existing pickups. If the magnetic field is the same as your bridge and neck…

I would recommend using either a humbucker or single coil pickup(s) with blade polepieces. This helps when you are using a non standard Gibson or Fender spacing that the majority of pickup replacement companies manufacturer. If you have a non standard string spacing and need individual poles correctly spaced under each string then a custom…

The wound strings used for acoustic guitar are usually made of bronze or other non-ferrous alloy. When using magnetic pickups under the strings the portion of the string that disturbs the magnetic field is the ferrous inner core of the string. The inner core is normally made from a ferrous material commonly called spring steel…

If a pickup is specifically wound or calibrated for the bridge position it may have more turns of magnet to increase the output for that position. If a pickup is wound hotter for the bridge, it can have more volume and fullness but can sound to dark or fat sounding in the neck position. The…

I like having a mounting hole no larger than 1/16″ around the outer dimension of a pickup, cover or mounting system. I like keeping the instrument cut only deep enough to fit the pickup at it’s lowest adjustment. If the cavity is too large or deep, the tone of the wood will be affected and…

The closer to the bridge a pickup is will make the pickup brighter, thinner sounding and less output as the string vibration is less as it gets closer to the bridge. The amplitude of the string vibration increases closer to the fingerboard and the pickup will sound fatter, fuller and increased output providing both pickups…