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Squier VM Mustang Mod

I got a Squier Vintage Modified Musatng a few months ago and I was looking to change the pickup covers from white to black. Any idea what decade of parts (60's or 70's) would fit the guitar?

Any should for providing they're for mustang pick ups and have the same pole spacing

as far as I know the jag single coils are weird amongst fender singles due to how the wires are hooked up (which is not a big deal in any way) and also because of the 'claw baseplate' that adds a little tele bridge tone and the corners of the cover but underneath are just a strat bobbin with a square top and in vintage examples would be a strat's bottom flatwork and a squared-off top piece of flatwork, same amterial as a strat of the period... if your jag has pickups that don't basically look like this:

http://www.jimshine.com/jaguar/67%20JAGUAR%20LEAD%20PICKUP.jpg

then figure out what it does have, it shouldn't be hard... fender single coil pickups come in like 5 standard sizes regardless of year of manufacture or country of origin. There's tele bridge, tele neck, strat/mustang/duosonic/musicmaster (the only difference is that the short scales are flatpoles with no magnet cut outs on the covers, but same bobbin size and construction and are interchangeable in the pickguard cutout and mounting holes), jazzmaster AND jaguar (and the jaguar is 90% a strat... note in the picture that a jag pckup even has the same stagger to the poles as a strat does, they are only different because of the claw, the top of the bobbin, the cover and the way the wires terminate from the coil... manly cosmetic differences).

That's that.

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