I have a 1958 Fender Stringmaster Steel Guitar with two pickups per neck that look like Fender Mustang pickups. What are they and how are they hooked up?
Stringmaster Steel Guitars were made with either 6 or 8 strings. The instrument had pickups similar to old Duo-sonic and Musicmaster Guitars. They had Alnico rod magnets cut to .625″ and diameter of .192″ in the early models down to .187″ in the later ones. The pickups were flat on top and the ground end of the magnets extending out the bottom slightly. (Note) The two coils were mirror images of each other. One pickup was TG-N (top going-north polarity) and the other coil was TC-S (top coming-south polarity). One unique item was the control under the bridge plate cover. When rotated, it would blend the two pickups together making it humbucking and when rotated in the opposite direction it would ground one coil out and make it like a single coil pickup. It would sound thinner and also have hum.
