ayrguitarist
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I just snagged a pair of MKIII (MK3) pickups from a 1984 SD40, white lead wires, 19.1k and 18.8k, 50mm pole spacing, silver baseplates, black bobbins, square window, but no covers, and no PAF sticker. So they look almost exactly like the MKII, except the covers. I wonder if the early MK3 were essentially just MK2 without the covers - if it was as simple as that?I think this is fascinating. You were mentioning the LS Dynamic from a couple years before.
Now I’m wondering what the readings were on the first Humbuckers listed in catalogs as MKII specifically. They were in the 1981 and then 1982 LS60 models. I looked and I don’t have readings for them.
Your pickups appear to be the next version of MKII if they are what the catalog lists as ‘57 PAF Vintage MKII.
The LS Dynamic were in the LS50 and are what I’m now thinking of as possibly the first MK3 pickups essentially.
I also wonder if they really only had 2 pickup versions during this time (which they called many different things) - 8k alnico grey wire, and 19k ceramic white wire, and the wire colours were used in the factory to tell them apart.
Once I receive the MKIII (probably in a couple months), I'll do a comparison, and post some updates.