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Kinman pickups for Jazzmaster are direct replacements and no modification to the guitar is required.  Our standard 52mm spaced covers are interchangeable with USA, Japanese and Korean covers.  Our narrow 50mm version cover is not.  A White, Parchment or Black cover is included at your choice.

Some people will call these noiseless Jazzmaster pickups but Kinman prefers to describe them correctly as Zero-Hum Jazzmaster 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: 28
Number of parts in regular single coil: 11
Number of parts in other brand noiseless: There are no other noiseless Jazzmaster pickups with Alnico rod magnets.  Kinman is the only one and that makes it the coolest Jazzmaster pickup available.

Pickup adjustment

As with all Kinman Gen-2 pickups these are very sensitive to height adjustment.  A good starting point, so the neck and bridge pickups balance, is with the two E strings fretted at the 15th fret, adjusted as follows ...

• bridge pickup so the string-to-magnet gap is 1.25mm for both E strings
• neck pickup so the string-to-magnet gap is 1.5mm for both E strings

Cavity depth

• 12mm (1/2") standard cavity depth, plenty of height adjustment.

Connection means available

• Single wires for soldering.
• also available with Kinman connectors for plugging into a Kinman Strat, Tele or KHP-90 Goodbye-Soldering Harness. 
  • We can make harness for some Jazzmasters upon request.

Hook-up wires

• 3 single hook-up wires, color coded and facilitates series switching as well as phase reversing. 
• Cut generously longer than necessary for the 2 stock Jazzmaster positions. neck 37cm & 32cm bridge.
• Custom lengths by request with Order.

Output Polarity: 

• in-phase with all other Kinman pickups.
• in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers.
• opposite phase to Fender
  • Can be phase reversed to match that of Fender pickups.

Pot & Capacitor values

• 500k Ohm or original Fender 1 Meg for Volume & Tone is recommended.  250k volume pot compromises the dynamic feel to a small extent.
• Tone pot is usually the same value as the volume pot.
• Normal tone cap value of 0.022uF / 63 ~ 100 volt.  Smaller value lessen the severity of Treble cut and requires some experimentation.

Magnet spreads

• 52mm bridge & 50mm neck for Vintage USA bridges (55.3mm saddle spread)
•  50mm & 47.5mm for Narrow bridges such as Mastery, Tune-O-Matic etc (52mm saddle spread)
  • Narrow versions incorporate our unique Coil Spread Compensation Technology that restores performance that is lost when magnets are spaced closer together.

Magnet Staggers

• Normal improved Stagger to suit 7 ~ 14 inch uniform radius fretboards including USA Custom Guitar Compound 7-1/4" ~ 9-1/2
• Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (eg Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch compound and Fender Deluxe Compound Radius)
• Option to indicate your fretboard radius is in our 'After-Payment Additional Questions' email we send you.

Mounting hardware included

• We now include our own specially made mounting screws. 
• 4 Silicon Rubber tube springs are included.

Covers

• Available in White, Parchment, Ivory* & Black. (*Ivory is similar to Aged White)
• With and without Kinman logo.
• Original Fender covers are suitable only for 52mm magnet spread, NOT for our 50mm and 47.5mm neck magnet spreads.
• Ask for bridge and neck with 52mm magnet spreads if you intend to fit Fender covers, but only for vintage bridges.
• Aged White and Cream covers without magnet holes are available on eBay.

We highly recommend consulting the Install Guide in Technical section even if you think you know it all.  Kinmans' require specialized knowledge and sometimes there is updated info.

We also highly recommend consulting the Adjust & Set-up page under the Technical Stuff header so you get the best out of your Kinman pickups.

** Alnico-K is a unique proprietary 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 Jazzmaster 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 describe our products.