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Difference between bridge pickups

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Dave W:
No, that is the stock one from a 4003. It's a conventional pickup with steel polepieces and a big magnet beneath. The chromed plastic cover just makes it look like a horseshoe. This is the same pickup that dates from the early 70s, only it's wound hotter now. The neck pickup uses the exact same coil but with a smaller magnet.

The original horseshoe (30s to early 70s) was an actual horseshoe magnet surrounding the coil.

The reissue horseshoe available only on the vintage series (late 80s to present) is a conventional coil with a metal (non-magnet) surround to direct the magnetic field somewhat like the original horseshoe magnets. But it's not the same.

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