M.I.E. Music "Music is Everything"
CBS 64/65-1970 Loaded 5-Way
A
loaded 5-way Early CBS 1964-1970 Hand / Scatter Wound Boutique pickups with Black
Top / Grey Bottom pickups. Beveled and Staggered magnets with a RWRP middle and
wound with USA Remington 42 awg Plain Enamel wire. These pickups come with a
complete Fender PN# 0991368000 Aged white accessory kit which includes Pickup
Covers, all 3 knobs, 5-way tip, Tremolo arm tip and Tremolo back cover with
Vintage push back cloth wiring and includes a new guitar jack. All electronics
are Fender CTS. My stock pickguard colors are: White, Black, Mint Green, Red
Tortoise or Vintage Tortoise Brown. The Plain Enamel Early CBS Vintage
Nicknamed “ The Jimi Years “ has focused presence, very detailed, the mids bite
in all the right places and has a tight low end with creamy highs. Demo at the
end of the pictures and in MY STORE, just click on the about link.
CBS Fender changed to grey bottom
flatware during the buyout and changed to plain enamel wire in 64/65. CBS
Fender slowly changed over to machine winding and the days of the great winders
of a 10-year run were basically over. Abigal Ybarra still made special order
pickups and had over six decades being over the winding dept after learning
from Leo Fender himself and then trained Josefina Campos to take over as she
was retiring form the special hand winding. I have owned just about every
pickup they made. I base my pickups off my favorite Fender pickups from the
Vintage years of 1954-1970 and having great
feedback from all 3 of my selling sites with 5-star reviews and 100% perfect
reviews.
I build my pickups
the old school way. Detailed pickup information below: The main reason Fender
vintage guitars are so sought after is the Tone. That Tone came from Hand Wound
Pickups. Now that changed once it went to CNC machine wound but now you can
have the Early CBS grey bottom pickups in a hand-wound version.
These pickups are Hand wound by me one at a time, in my USA shop. I use the top
USA suppliers, using the highest quality parts while still making a low-cost
affordable Vintage tone upgrade for your beloved instrument.
Black Top / Grey
bottom vintage 42-gauge plain enamel coil wire,
.187 magnets, Alnico 5 spec. at 5.65k to 5.9k.
I specialize
only in Vintage Stratocaster Pickups and for years now my Hand Wound Vintage tone pickups,
magnifies the harmonics, the incidentals, the upper octaves, the fifths and the
relationship of the pick to index finger strikes while maintaining strong
sustained fundamental tone and real clarity. Most of my favorite Vintage Fender
pickups have a little bulge in the middle and not the flat sides you see in CNC
machined pickups. I added the bulge to replicate my Vintage pickups.
Specs:
Averages:
Tested at 77 degrees and 42% humidity, +/- 5% on a DER EE
LCR DE-5000 meter, this LCR Meter has a USB output that you can save on your PC
/ Mac in Microsoft. This gives me a record of every pickup I have made and
sold. My Early CBS pickup sets test at or under 6k ohms and under 3.0 Henries,
Built the Old school way.
My Assembly Steps:
You can watch on youtube: Mie Music Jobe
1- I install the Alnico 5 Rod Magnets into the flatwork, using a Pickup
Jig on an Arbor Press.
2- I dip the finished bobbin in
Lacquer. This does two things;
#1 It keeps the coil wire
from shorting out directly onto the magnet. This is where 90% of
Vintage Fender Pickups fail. The coil wire rubbing against the magnets. #2
This glues the flatwork to the magnets, eliminating the use of super glue. Dry
time varies. 24 hours average.
3- Pickup Winding-I use a MoJoTone
Pickup Winder. Varying my patterns and wire tension and proprietary way
that I've developed, coming from months of hand on research and beta testing.
4- I install lead Vintage Push Back
Cloth Wires directly to the pickups.
5- Perform the initial testing. k
ohms, Henries, pf capacitance@1k and RP@1k
6- Waxing- I use 80% Paraffin
and 20% Bees Wax. Heated to 140-150 degrees for 10-15 minutes for
perfect response and clarity.
7- I wrap the coil with fabric tape
for four reasons: #1 It cuts down the chances of damaging the
coil when changing pickup covers. #2
Helps stop high gain monophonic feedback. The tape has zero effect on
tone. #3 Keeps out moisture, just an added protection and
expense of building a long-lasting reliable pickup. #4 Some guitarists
while recording will sit in the control room with the amp in the ISO room,
while others like to sit or stand by their amp. I started to notice that most
Gibson guitars did not have that high squeal and after checking those guitars
had fabric tape on the pickups. So, I put some Fabric tape on a few of my
Strats and was floored that this worked. Back in the 50's there was really no
need for it because the amps were not as high powered as today’s. Studio Tested
and No change in tone.
8- Perform second round of testing,
confirming the correct specifications are met.
9- Charge magnets. I use
a MoJoTone N/S Charger. I fully charge all rod magnets once
sold. I test the Gauss on a Tesla meter making sure of a smooth even charge on
each magnet. Then I put the lead wires through the Flatware hole. I re-test the
polarity of the pickups which are North for the Neck and Bridge and South for
the RWRP middle pickup with a small polarity handheld tester.
10-I have templates made that all I
need to do is add the pickups and wire the 5-way to your liking. The 2 Fender
standard versions are Tone 1 Neck only and Tone 2 Middle and Bridge or Tone 1
Neck and Middle and Tone 2 Bridge only.
I have been playing Strats for over 50 years and have a
pretty good idea of how a Vintage Strat should sound. I am also sure many of
you also know. Polls show 80% of the Strat players are happy with their
tone. I am after that 20% of the very picky players. I would love to
have orders from that 80% to show them what they are missing and what a low-cost
pickup upgrade can do for their guitar and the enjoyment these pickups can
bring.
My pickups are made to last and come from the result of
listening to my vintage guitar collection and taking apart a bucket full of DEAD
Fender pickups, studying them, painstakingly un-winding them, and taking
very detailed notes. This is how I came up with my proprietary way of hand
winding my pickups. I started BETA testing in 2020 on every kind of neck and
body wood made. Plus tested on tube and solid-state amps, pedals, digital
devices, and software in my recording studio Mie Music, that I opened in 1999,
with fantastic results.
I have built numerous partcasters, and have installed my
pickups, and they are highly comparable to my vintage collection. I am
receiving great reviews and feedback from all the guitar players currently
using my pickups
“Enjoy Peace Of Mind “with
your new gear.
The work has been done, so install, and you will find
complete nirvana for recording and playing live.
MIE MUSIC "Music is Everything"
Thank you for supporting a small USA company. jj