Clip of Hank using Apache PU's

[grip]

Hi All,

I just came across this Clip of Shads with Marty Wilde whilst browsing the Bareknuckle site, Hank is using the "Apache" pickups, I'm definately tempted for my Highway 1:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQaZZuizTe4


Kind regards,


grip

[asimmd]

I have a set of Apaches, and I can honestly say you will not be disappointed if you decide to get a set,they are excellent.

I must say that the sound in the clip does not do them any favours at all,and Hank seems to get a bit carried away in the excitement,still they are more than worth having.

Alan

[Charlie Hall]

I believe Hank was playing Roger Newell's Strat in that clip. Roger is the bass player for Marty Wilde.
Regards,
Charlie

[glyderslead]

I've just seen the clip and do agree with you Alan. I was wondering if the strings used were of a lighter guage than Hank normally uses which of course affects both sound and playing feel for the many stretches played.
Cheers.
Mick

[loujones12]

forgive me guys. but how can you tell What pickups are on any fender.?? what am i looking for?? lou

[grip]

Hi Lou,

This clip is linked from the Bareknuckle pick up site, they make the apache PU's. Vintage, noiseless, scatterwound, expensive. Its not the looking, but the listening

Kind regards,


grip

[Charlie Hall]

Hi Lou,
It is often difficult or impossible to tell. Some experience with the different pickups Fender has used over the years would help.
This won't help much but it is an example. I was in a shop in London's Denmark Street a few years ago. There was a 62 Strat in typical worn condition and being offered as all original for a lot of money. I looked at the pickups and could see immediately that they weren't the originals or at least not what I would expect to see on a 62 Strat. The one thing that told me that was the height of the G magnets. They were higher like the 50's style pickups which I immediately suspected of being modern vintage style replacements. From around 1961 Fender used a lower G magnet, roughly between the height of the D and B magnets.
Another thing to look for is the hand bevelled edges on originals, and a rough look to the casting, with pit holes on the top surface.
If I had been thinking of buying that guitar, I would have insisted on having it apart to see if the wire and soldering (and of course the pickups) looked all original.
Regards,
Charlie

[geoffaldertonlh]

Hi all. A couple of months ago Bare Knuckle wound me a left handed set of their Apache single coils for my LH 58 Strat. I specifically asked for 58 vintage LH stagger and three similar spec pickups without the RW/RP middle, as per original 58 Strat pickups. I fitted a new three position switch, a NOS C-D wax paper"Chiclet" .1mfd/150vdc capacitor and re wired with 22 gauge cloth/wax wire following a 1954-1961 Fender Strat wiring diagram. Going back to basics has given me the best Strat sound, I myself, have ever achieved.
Bare Knuckle pickups; Recomended, great sound,very good value, very good service.
Regards Geoff.