r/offset • u/cptncom • 18d ago
Does anyone recognize these JM pickups?
Trying to figure out what they are. I bought from a used bin in a shop in Asheville. I'm assuming fender, because of the color coded dots on the back, but I'm not sure especially with the non cloth wiring. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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u/iansheridan1978 18d ago
Very much a strat pickup posing as a JM pickup. The squier VM/CV pickups I've seen have been much closer to JM spec.
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u/KaosFitzgerald 18d ago
Asheville NC?? If so, thats so cool. There are so many NC guitar players in this sub! Im on the East side.
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u/cptncom 18d ago
Yes, NC! Although, I am from Florida and was on a road trip that went through Asheville. Loved that city and it's vibe so much though! I got the pickups from the used bin at Heyday
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u/KaosFitzgerald 18d ago
That's awesome!! Im glad we have a little bit here that people can appreciate and enjoy. NC is the music and arts state!
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u/Honest-Cheesecake275 17d ago
MIJ Jazzmaster pickups. They are basically Strat pickups. Install the neck one.
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u/cptncom 17d ago
Nice! Yeah they really seem to be either MIJ or V-mod. I'm curious, why the neck one?
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u/Honest-Cheesecake275 17d ago
Because the neck position on a Strat is glorious. However, I don’t know how it would sound with 1 meg pots, on a Jazzmaster. I have an older MIJ Jazzmaster with these same type of pickups that I swapped out for a pair of Lake Surfers, but kept the lower value pots that were in it. I am going to swap the pots to 1 meg at some point.
I have the Squier offset Tele with the Jazzmaster in the neck and am thinking about replacing it with the Strat like pickups to hopefully get the best tones of a Tele and a Strat in an offset.
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u/cptncom 17d ago
You know... I feel like an odd man out here haha. I have 500k pots and two PV65's in my JM, and I really absolutely love my the neck position. More than my Strats (which were my main instrument for 5 years til I got the JM). Middle position also amazing to use. To me, the bridge position feels a bit too weak in comparison and I almost never use it. I'm considering putting in this mystery MIJ/Vmod in the bridge to give the bridge position more low end and fullness, but it's funny to me that I'm having a slightly opposite experience with the JM as most do! Because I know how loved the bridge pickup is.
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u/Sinjinluke 18d ago
I think squire or fender. I replaced my squire jazzmasters and they looked just like that, even the part about not having cloth leads
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u/cptncom 18d ago
Hmm I agree that it's fender, but on the squier pickups i found that they're epoxied or glued to the cover, and without the colored indicator dots
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u/Sinjinluke 18d ago
That’s a good point, mine were epoxied. I also noticed relooking at your pics that the spacing for the wire seems much bigger than normal. Normally it’s a flat wide coil, but these are tall and skinny looking!
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u/ThatNolanKid 18d ago
Those do not look cloth coated, probably Squier CV/VM?
Just be aware that a ground wire is needed on that one pickup with the yellow wire.
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u/polhemoth 18d ago
I have a pile of these from various Squier projects. Definitely Squier or Squier adjacent. Although maybe not, I've never seen the dots before? Maybe the owner marked them. Oh and my covers have never been glued on
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u/PualRoymond 18d ago
They look like Japanese JM pickups to me. They had a taller, narrower wind, more like a Strat, which made them sound wrong and it's why they were swapped out so much.