Late 90s legacy pickups?

[Afireinside]

I bought a late 90s legacy lake placid blue. Are these stock clf 100s? or ssl 2? They have Grey bobins B/W cloth wires on Neck and Bridge, dark blue?/yellow cloth wire middle pickup. Middle has the yellow wire to ground and dark blue to switch. The other way its out of phase/verrrrry weak in 2 and 4 position.

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[Afireinside]

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[yowhatsshakin]

Hey there,

Your guitar is old enough (1997) that by then G&L was using their CLF-100 as the stock pickup. Does that make yours CLF-100s? Below, the bottom of a set of CLF-100 pickups on a 2001 George Fullerton Signature (left) and a 2009 Phyllis model 'Blondie' (right) built by the Custom Creations Department in the day.


The pole pieces are more flush with the bottom of the bobbin. So I can neither confirm nor refute your set of pickups to be CLF-100s.

For comparison, this is a set of SSL-2 pickups on a 1993 Legacy:


There the stickers are a dead giveaway so yours for sure are not a set of SSL-2s.

Providing DC-R values for these pup might be helpful. Is that possible for you? The CLF-100 generally is slightly north of 7kΩ on my guitars (about 7.1kΩ) whereas the SSL-2s are slightly south with a larger variance (6.3kΩ-6.6kΩ).

Not the best help I can give you. But alas ...

- Jos

[Afireinside]

Thanks I will have to get a better multimeter......

Looks just like the George Fullerton pups same wire color and dark grey almost charcoal bobins. Wonder if someone swapped them after the fact. They sound quite different then my 2013 Tangerine Metallic Legacy with confirmed clf 100s.

Or just happened to get a set installed on accident by the factory? Custom ordered? Who knows they sound incredible.

They definitely sound different then my 2017 Tangerine cfl100 equipped legacy