Well, guess what 1-those are the same as the stock pickups in mine, and 2-thats exactly what i bought yesterday ! Why buy the same as i have? Because i decided they fit the guitar sonically way better then true JM pickups and decided like the post above yours suggested that i don't like jazzmaster pickups. And the reason i bought a new set is mine are ruined. one because used hot glue to keep the pickups in the cover so i could leave those rubber foam piece off that mess with the tone IMO. And when i had to remove the glue to use the cover when i put the fender JMs in somehow it broke on od the coil wires even tho they are under tape. Long story how i think that happened but i was able to remove the tape and find the broken end and fix it, The other pickup however then broke and that one is unfixable. That one broke because these pickups have a really unbelievable design flaw....adjusting the polepiece can ruin them ! The reason i say this is i adjusted mine a few times and about t the 2nd or 3rd time it went dead while adjusting it. I took it out and removed the screws and pulled the top flatwork off and my suspicions turned out to be true. The only divider between the screw polepieces and the coil is a thin layer of tape ! So when you adjust then poles the threads of the screw can pull the tape down and expose the coil to the threads which then cut the coil wires as you adjust it. Crazy huh? I found 5 broken ends at the end polepiece so that one if dead and gone. The one i fixed still works but i figured i need another one and you can't buy one and at $25 why bother.ohm-men wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:33 amIf you don't want to spend a lot of money, check out the Chinese made Alnico 5 Jazzmaster pick ups from Ali express.
I have a set of these and they really sound quiet good. They are a steel at $ 20/25 for a pair...
They have vintage/low output (like the old P-90's) but wound on a Jazzmaster bobbin, they can be had with either black or white covers, screws and springs included.
These look a lot like the JM-JM pu's you find in the squiers (same construction), but the don't have the brass bottom shield attached to them.
But 2 Alnico 5 magnets on the bottom, adjustble pole piece screws and cloth wire.
The neck is wound arround 8.1 K and the bridge just a tad hotter 8.7 K
I put these in a Jazzmaster I pieced together and these pu's really surprised me ... They are much nicer sounding then the stock VM/CV Squier pu's and when compared to a set of expensive Jm pu's, they whitstand the test (let's say they don't sound as nice as my set of Pick up wizzard's or Creamery Jm pu's, but they really preform very well and sound good to my ears).
They have the typical P-90 bark/mids but still sound very Jazzmaster to me.
I paired them with a set of 500 K pots and didn't look back.
So i bought a pair just like the ones you posted because i decided against trying a bunch of others knowing i don't like alnico rod JMs and i also figured i may be able to get the china ones to sound great by modding them. Like i said, they are the same pickups as my stock ones but theres no tape on the coil according to the pics, and they don't appear to be heavily potted. So i intend to first try them to see if they do indeed sound the same as the stocks. If so, i basically like that sound but they are too overwound to get exactly what i want. At about 8k i think they would sound just right at 7k because that will calm the overbearing low mids i found with the stock ones and add a bit of brightness. They sound dark and congested when i roll back the volume for clean or edgy tones, and no other pickups i use are like that.(and yes, i already put a treble bleed in so thats not the reason) The pics as i said show no tape and it should be easy to find the outer wrap and unwind it to 7k. (done this many times so i know what i am doing) Then maybe more if 7k still sounds too congested. From past experiments lowering the DCR this way on other pickups i am pretty sure this will get me just what i want from them. I will do one first, then if i sounds bad that way i will just use the remaining stock one i fixed and the other new one as is and live with the tone. In any case, i won't find out if this works for quite a while because they ship so slow from china. It says they are due in abut a month and a half, and it also notes chinese shipments may eve be delayed further due to the covid i guess. Anyways, $25 is a cheap solution one way or another. If i just can't be happy with it i can at least sell it now that i will have pickups in it. Sure don't wanna sell it with the fenders in it, as those cost me over $100 and i need to sell those to get back some of the loss.