'63 Jazzmaster®

Product Details

The Lollar ’63 Jazzmaster offers a slight midrange scoop, softer attack, and a fuller-sounding neck pickup than our Original ’58 Jazzmaster set. It was directly inspired by the pickups in an especially excellent Jazzmaster owned by our good friend and neighbor, repair tech Jeff Hoppe. It features Alnico 2 magnets and flat pole pieces, and is a drop-in replacement for most vintage instruments and reissues alike.

Avg. DC: Neck 8.9K, Bridge 8.9K (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Capacitor: 0.047μF
Recommended Potentiometers: 250k or 1meg 1meg pots are "vintage correct" and give a brighter overall tone than 250k pots, but either will work. It's a matter of preference.

 

'63 Jazzmaster Pickups

All Jazzmaster soundfiles with clean tone were played by Greg Timmons using a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster through a Fender Super Reverb.

All Jazzmaster soundfiles with dirty tone were played by Greg Timmons using a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster through a 1958 Fender Deluxe amp.

'63 Jazzmaster^® Demo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do your '63 Jazzmaster^® pickups use staggered, flat, or radiused pole pieces?
Our '63 Jazzmaster^® pickups have a flat pole pieces. This is in contrast to our Original '58 Jazzmaster^® pickups which have pole pieces that are slightly radiused.

What values of potentiometers and capacitors do you recommend for Jazzmaster^® pickups?
Vintage Jazzmasters^® (along with Tele Deluxes and Thinlines among others) used 1meg pots, which gives the guitar a lot of brilliance and presence. Many players today find that sound to be a little on the harsh side, so we generally recommend 250k pots with a .047 cap as we would for a Strat or Tele. That said, there are no hard and fast rules. You can read more about how different pot and cap values affect tone in this two-part blog post: Part I - Pots, Part II - Caps.