Identify this mystery pickup

[Axewielder]

OK I bought a "J-100" from a seller on the bay. It arrived with the correct Jackson logo'd cover, but doesn't look right. Here's a pic. The one on the left in a bonifide J-100. This mystery pup is taller, the cover doesn't really fit right, and it ohms out at 13 ohms (twice the value I would expect). Double stacked? Is this even a Jackson pickup?? The construction looks somewhat Jackson-ish. As you can see, there are no markings. At least I only paid $10 for it.

[Axewielder]

Yeah definitely double stacked. Although there are only two wires, I can read 6 ohms over to that third contact point. Odd that there is no lead to it...

[Axewielder]

Here it is with the cover all the way on. That shit ain't right...is it???

[charvel750]

You've confused me, is it measuring 6 or 13 ohms? You said both. What do you mean it only has 2 wires? So does your J-100 on the left? Looks like a Jackson pickup from the later years, not an original USA made/wound pickup. Came on the later generation imports. So it's a Jackson, but not like the original.

[Axewielder]

You've confused me, is it measuring 6 or 13 ohms? You said both. What do you mean it only has 2 wires? So does your J-100 on the left? Looks like a Jackson pickup from the later years, not an original USA made/wound pickup. Came on the later generation imports. So it's a Jackson, but not like the original.

Across the black wire and the white wire, it is 13 ohms. But if you look at the 2nd pic, there is a third contact point on the left side without a lead attached. From this contact to the black wire, it is 6 ohms and from this contact point to the white wire it is 6 ohms. I'm assuming if you soldered a lead to it, you could wire up a coil tap. Just guessing really, never seen that before.

[warlok]

This may not help but I do know dimarzio stacked singles I have are taller and have taller covers. Did Jackson ever use a single that was "dimarzio designed"?

[charvel750]

OK, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I'd have to say that's splitting the coils to one then, giving you about half the output.

[Axewielder]

So far the only jackson single coils I've been able to learn about are j100/j200/j200r. This is not any of those.

[Newc]

It might just be wound extra tall, unless you've removed the tape and can see two separate coils. In that case it should still be a J200 (indicating number of coils rather than design spec e.g. 100 = 1 coil, 200 = 2 coils).


Then again, if it's a J100S the "S" could mean "Stack" for hum-cancelling purposes, just before the J200 was dropped (since covered/sealed pickups like the J200 cost more to make than an open-coil).

[Axewielder]

Ok a friend informs me he had a 1992 usa soloist with a jackson double stacked single coil with exposed pole pieces. There would seem to be another model floating around out there...

[Axewielder]

So...there are two sightings of Jackson double stacked single coils with exposed pole pieces...anyone got a clue here as to what is going on? Bueller?