CP Jazzmaster Pickup Question

[SwanFaces]

I picked a CP Jazzmaster up not long ago. For the most part I enjoy the "modern" improvements, though I'm planning on changing the pickups--Seymour Duncan Antiquity II's. Has anyone replaced the pickups in their CP? I'm curious if the pole pieces of the Antiquity's will make it through the covers.

[skip]

not sure- look on offset guitars.com
but yeah, CP pick ups can be crap

[bob the r0bot]

While I haven't replaced any CP pickups (and it's been a while since I had set too), I can attest the to nice-ness of antiquity IIs

[rfurtkamp]

No idea, I only have a CP HH, and actually was suprised that I liked the pickups.

Fender got buckers right for once.

[Ancient Astronaught]

OP - > I never swapped the pickups in my CP jazzie before I sold it so I don't have any direct experience, but I haven't heard of anyone having any issues swapping pickups in the CP's I did swap em in my MIJ to the CP p/u's with no issue though. (they are far superior to stock MIJ Jazzie p/u's...)

No idea, I only have a CP HH, and actually was suprised that I liked the pickups.

Fender got buckers right for once.

I felt the same way about my Baritone Jag's stock pickups. Their newer "Atomic" and "Dragster" pickups are actually pretty nice, they nail the slightly OD'd PAF sound pretty good while maintaining really nice clean tones.

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, the Classic Player's buckers are hotter than sin but clean up nicely with the volume knob or putting more single coil in the mix with coil blend.

Never thought I'd like coil blend either.

I got it because it was a criminally cheap Jag with the proper trem when such things were unobtanium except blind luck - figured I'd drop another hundred + into rewiring and putting proper pickups in.

It sounded good enough I didn't bother and I have a Squier VM for standard Jagness now.