Information on AVRI 62' Jazzmaster pickups.

dune736 · Post by **dune736** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:46 am

Can anyone give me specs on the stock AVRI 62' Jazzmaster pickups? I have a AVRI JM from 1999, and the stock pickups sound killer. All other AVRI I've played never sounded as good as these. Looking to see if I can get a pickup winder to recreate this set, but I have no clue of the specs of these pickups. anyone have any info?

timtam · Post by **timtam** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:36 am

The stock AVRI 62 pickups are 0054443000/0054444000
https://p4.zdassets.com/hc/theme_assets ... A_SISD.pdf

Fender still sells pickups with those part numbers, which are supposedly the same ....
https://darrenriley.com/store/fender-am ... 054443000/
https://darrenriley.com/store/fender-am ... 054444000/

Fender publishes some specs for the PV/AV65 pickups ...
Alnico 5 / 6.8k DCR / 3.2H inductance
https://darrenriley.com/store/fender-pu ... 992239000/
But not for the AVRI 62's.

But if your AVRIs sound better than other AVRIs to you, as you say, and that's what you want ... you would have to get a builder to measure yours (resonant peak etc) and attempt to reproduce that. I am not aware of any builder who does that, but maybe someone does.

Embenny · Post by **Embenny** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:28 am

Considering that the magnets and wire used are known quantities, just open up your JM and check out the resistance of each pickup with a multimeter, then ask someone to wind to that spec. Resistance varies a bit with temperature etc, but that'll get you as close as any reasonable option would.

Also, consider measuring your pots while you're at it. 1meg pots could be as little as 800k or as much as 1.2M. It's entirely possible that the reason you love those pickups more than others is that they're being filtered through those particular electronics.

It's also possible that you simply have a nice-sounding guitar, and that its acoustic properties are influencing its plugged-in tone in a way that you like more than other guitars.

andy_tchp · Post by **andy_tchp** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 4:29 pm

mbene085 wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:28 am
It's also possible that you simply have a nice-sounding guitar, and that its acoustic properties are influencing its plugged-in tone in a way that you like more than other guitars.

It's very likely this ^

My CIJ Jazzmaster (which I stupidly sold) sounded a level better than my custom parts Jazzmaster. The parts guitar had Novaks, CIJ had Seymour Duncan 'Vintage for Jazzmaster', their cheapest (but still excellent) Jazzmaster offering.

'It must be the pickups and harness', I thought.

Nope.

Even when swapping the pickups and wiring harness (complete - switches, pots, and even the output jack) between the two and testing them back to back, the CIJ still sounded markedly better. And it sounded better in the exact same way. Some guitars just have a little extra magic.

dune736 · Post by **dune736** » Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:06 pm

I've actually been thinking all this as well. guess I got to take out a meter and read everything. Been afraid to take it apart, might kill its mojo

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