Some people will call these noiseless Telecaster pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Telecaster pickups.  That's because there are 2 types of noise, Hum which is cancelled in the pickup and Buzz which can only be minimized by shielding the wiring cavities (refer to >Technical >Perfect Guitar >Shielding for newer guitars

Number of parts in this pickup: 172
Number of parts in normal pickup: 10
Number of parts in other brand noiseless: 23

US Patents 7,022,909 & 8,791,351

Adjustment requirements

Please refer to >Technical >Adjust & Setup

Cavity depths required

• All Teles including vintage spec models which have 16mm (5/8").

Connection means available

• Bare wires for soldering.
• Kinman connectors for plugging into any Kinman Goodbye-Soldering Harness.

Pot & Capacitor values

• Great Tele sound with 250k volume pot.  A 500k volume pot makes the twang sharper.  Both are good.
• Tone pot is usually the same value as the volume but for a little more top end brightness can be 1meg or a No-Load.
• Stock pots can actually measure as low as 170k and 350k.  Pots in our Goodbye-Soldering Harness are guaranteed to measure no less that 250k and 500k respectively.
• Normal tone cap value of 0.022uF in 63 ~ 100 volt Polyester.  Smaller value reduces the severity of Treble cut, larger values increase it.

Magnet spreads

• Bridge 55mm (standard)
• Neck 50mm (standard)

Magnet Staggers

• Normal improved Stagger to suit 7 ~ 14 inch range uniform radius fretboards.
• Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14").
• Option to change the magnet stagger of sets and singles in our 'After-Payment Supplementary Questions' email we send you.

Hook-up cables

• Cut generously longer than necessary for Telecasters.
• Custom lengths by request with Order.
• Bridge pickups have 2 or 3 conductor shielded.  The 3 mounting screws provide a ground link to the bridge/strings.
• Neck pickup has 3 conductor shielded cable (suitable for series connection of 4 pos switch -and- phase reversible -and- compatible with Fender's S1 harness).

Dimensions

• Click for dimensions page

Output Polarity: 

• Phase reversible so can adapt to any companion pickups

Mounting hardware included

• 3 Pan head mounting screws 6-32 UNC x 18mm for bridge.
• 2 Pan head mounting screws 4-40 UNC x 18mm for neck.
• 5 Silicon Rubber tube springs.

Covers

• Tele bridge pickups don't have covers, the top coil is bound with period correct black twine and wax potted for protection.
• NEW Tele neck pickup has hand buffed Natural Nickel-Silver (great for relicing) cover for extended durability and zero impact on sonic performance.  Matching mounting screws.
• Arched top to accommodate staggered magnets for perfect string volume balance.
• With or without Kinman logo.

We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Tech Info even if you think you know it all.  Kinmans' require specialized knowledge and sometimes there is updated info.  There is also a handy wiring diagram available.

We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page in Tech Info so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.

** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary Alnico rod magnet developed by Kinman in 1985.  It is Alnico-5 but has 40% less string pull than Alnico-5 so sustain is longer and there is much less clatter from string crash and no Strat-itis string warble.

* Fender and Telecaster and Tele are registered Trade Marks of Fender Musical Instrument Corp, Inc.  Kinman is not associated with FMIC but they kindly permit us to refer to their Trade Marks to reference our products.

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