John Groover McDuffie
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LA California, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2011 11:24 am |
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First of all a Strat's three pickups are all the same design. (Some makers are now winding the bridge pickup slightly hotter or offering "calibrated" sets, wound progressively for neck, middle, and bridge.)
Teles, on the other hand, use two different designs for the neck and bridge, both of which are different than the Strat pickup design.
Data published by Seymour Duncan lists the following for their basic vintage style Strat and Tele pickups. the first figure is DC resistance, the 2nd is resonant peak:
Strat - 6.5kOhms, 10kHz
Tele rhythm - 7.30kOhms, 8kHz
Tele bridge - 7.60kOhms, 8.5kHz
These figures indicate that the Strat pickups are likely to have more extended high end response and the Tele pickups are likely to have slightly more output.
Also, relative to the Strat, the Tele rhythm pickup is made with smaller diameter rod magnets and has a smaller coil form, and I think it is wound with thinner wire to get the desired amount of turns on the small coil. Smaller wire gauge will mean less high end.
The Tele bridge pickup has a bigger coil form, and I expect the coil ends up being wider than a Strat pu, plus the Tele bridge pu has a steel plate attached to the bottom of the pickup which results in a differently distributed magnetic field. I am not sure about the wire gauge relative to the Strat pu.
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