Adjustment requirements

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Cavity depths required

• 19mm (3/4").  Suitable for all Teles except vintage spec models which have 16mm (5/8") and these may require deepening by 2 or 3mm (1/8").

Connection means available

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

Pot & Capacitor values

• Best with a 500k or 1Meg volume pot.  Will have subdued piano mid tones and twang with 250k, not recommended.
  • Our Goodbye-Soldering Harness can be configured to provide both 250k and 500k for either neck or bridge or both.
  • If you don't include a Harness, for additional $25 we will include a 500k pot and parts and instructions for our Auto-Change device with your order for when the other pickups requires 250k.
• 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 350k.  Pots in our Goodbye-Soldering Harness are guaranteed to measure no less that 500k.
• 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 uniform radius fretboards.
• Flat Stagger for specific compound radius fretboards (Warmoth 10 ~ 16 inch and Post 2010 Fender Deluxe 9 ~ 14").
• Option to specify the magnet stagger of sets and singles in our 'After-Order 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 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: 

• in-phase with Gibson and Copy humbuckers.
• in-phase with all other Kinman pickups.
• opposite phase to Fender.

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 electro-Chrome or Gold plated Nickel-Silver or 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.