Are vintage Fender Stratocaster pickups all wound in the same direction?
All the vintage pickups I ve seen, wound and repaired, all have the same winding direction. If the top of the pickup is facing right, the pickup would be wound Top Right-Top Coming. If you look at the top of an old Strat bobbin, the magnet wire starts at the bottom left eyelet and wraps clock-wise around the bobbin. The older bobbins have a threaded center hole on the bottom of the bobbin. This is how the pickup was mounted to the mandrel or winding device. Note: Old Duo Sonics, Jazzmasters, Jaguars etc. had the neck pickup reverse wound. The bridge pickups would be wound Top Left-Top Coming and the neck pickup was wound Top Left-Top Going each having opposite magnetic polarities and are humbucking when used together. Split Precision Bass coils are wound in opposite directions and have opposite magnetic polarities.
