Mystery pickups in my fretless Fender...

[BassAgent]

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So I bought a Fender MIM Jazz bass about 14 years ago. I bought it new, but had the brilliant idea after a year or two to replace the pickups. Bought a set of Fender CS60 pickups (I thought), installed them and played with those pickups for a long time, no prob at all. A year or two ago, one of the pickups gave out so I went to my fav bass shop to have it repaired (turned out to be a loose wire). and the guy asked me: "What pickups are those?" So I said: "Fender Custom Shop, why?" So he shook his head and said: "Well, these are not Custom Shops for sure. They're not even Fender pickups. No idea what they are..."[/font][/color]
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I had the pickups replaced by Lollars today (amázing pickups by the way) but the guy who did that job for me had no idea what pickups were in my bass. Went to a luthier for a refret: he also had no idea. Thought they were cheap. Maybe anyone here knows?[/font][/color]
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The coils are glued in the covers, so no way to get them out. Funny thing is you can move the magnetic poles back and forth a bit.[/font][/color][color=#141414][font=verdana, geneva, lucida,]
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[zero9]

Where did you get the CS60's from?

[BassAgent]

2nd hand website here in Holland.

[bubinga5]

Fender pickups usually have removable casings. Exposing the windings. Resin filled pickups says to me they are split coils and hum cancelers.or single coil hum canceled.

[BassAgent]

Well, judging by the amount of hum they had, they're probably not hum canceling Or they were, and didn't do a very good job.

[bubinga5]

Even hum cancelers can produce hum. Depending on surroundings non shielded pups/ cavities etc.

Edited July 31, 2016 by bubinga5