ThroBak FL-II MXV Custom Pickups - Fender Lead II Guitar Pickup Replacements
$460 Pickup Pair - $230 Single Pickup
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.Bridge 6.8k, Neck 6.2k, available as a pair or single pickups.
• USA Custom Cast Alnico 5 magnets. • 42 AWG Plain Enamel magnet wire. • Meteor ME-481A wound, powerful vintage tones. • Magnets staggered to match modern radius. • Vintage correct stranded cotton push back wire. • Vintage style wax potting to preserve good microphonics. • Humbucking middle position tone. • Vintage style vulcanized fiberboard construction. • Stratocaster drop in replacement compatible. • Mounting screws, latex springs and covers not included. • Available as a matched pair or single pickups. • 100% USA Made. 
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ThroBak pickups for your Fender Lead II
Transform the tone of your Fender Player Lead II guitar with ThroBak FL-II MXV Custom replacement pickups. If you want more dynamics, more tonal range and more output from your Fender Lead II guitar, ThroBak FL-II MXV Custom pickups are the perfect solution. ThroBak FL-MXV II MXV pickups are vintage inspired, drop in replacement pickups for your Fender Lead II guitar. ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups and four simple solder connections are all that is needed to experience the full tonal range the Fender Lead II guitar is capable of. Simply reuse the covers screws and rubber springs already on your guitar and add ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups. Only available through the ThroBak website these pickups are an extreme value and BTW, they sound great in a Stratocaster also!
Fender Lead II History
The Fender Player Lead II guitar, reissued by Fender in 2020, improves upon the notoriously heavy Fender Lead II guitars of the 1980's. The new Fender Player Lead II guitars have a lighter weight, an added 22nd fret and medium jumbo frets plus an improved through body hardtail bridge. These changes drastically improve the original design. However the pickups that come standard with Fender Player Lead II guitars can sound thin, loose and jangly. The thinner tone is due to pickups wound with 43AWG poly wire in the 7k range. In the 7k range, a 43AWG Stratocaster style pickup is tonally serviceable, but lacks the tonal range, punch and dynamics of a hotter 42 AWG Plain Enamel wound Strat style pickup.
To fix this problem ThroBak's approach is to wind a vintage inspired, Hot Strat style bridge pickup to pair with a Medium output neck pickup to transform the Fender Lead II guitar into what we like to think of as the "Les Paul Special", Fender equivalent to a Stratocaster that Fender should have made in the 50's and 60's. With ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups installed, the Player Fender Lead II wakes up tonally. You can explore new territory with middle position in and out of phase tones that were never possible with a Stratocaster. ThroBak FL-II MXV neck position pickup tones are clear and full and the bridge pickup tones powerful and perfect for leads. When you pair ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups with the neck and bridge pickup master tone control of the Fender Lead II, you can make the pickups sound as Fat or Bitey as you like. Unleash the full tonal potential from your Fender Lead II with ThroBak FL-II MXV Custom replacement pickups!
Fender Lead II History
The Fender Player Lead II guitar, reissued by Fender in 2020, improves upon the notoriously heavy Fender Lead II guitars of the 1980's. The new Fender Player Lead II guitars have a lighter weight, an added 22nd fret and medium jumbo frets plus an improved through body hardtail bridge. These changes drastically improve the original design. However the pickups that come standard with Fender Player Lead II guitars can sound thin, loose and jangly. The thinner tone is due to pickups wound with 43AWG poly wire in the 7k range. In the 7k range, a 43AWG Stratocaster style pickup is tonally serviceable, but lacks the tonal range, punch and dynamics of a hotter 42 AWG Plain Enamel wound Strat style pickup.
To fix this problem ThroBak's approach is to wind a vintage inspired, Hot Strat style bridge pickup to pair with a Medium output neck pickup to transform the Fender Lead II guitar into what we like to think of as the "Les Paul Special", Fender equivalent to a Stratocaster that Fender should have made in the 50's and 60's. With ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups installed, the Player Fender Lead II wakes up tonally. You can explore new territory with middle position in and out of phase tones that were never possible with a Stratocaster. ThroBak FL-II MXV neck position pickup tones are clear and full and the bridge pickup tones powerful and perfect for leads. When you pair ThroBak FL-II MXV pickups with the neck and bridge pickup master tone control of the Fender Lead II, you can make the pickups sound as Fat or Bitey as you like. Unleash the full tonal potential from your Fender Lead II with ThroBak FL-II MXV Custom replacement pickups!
