INTERNAL PHOTOS OF HOFNER (FUMA-MADE) FLOATING PICKUPS OF THE 1950's

COURTESY OF ALAN EXLEY OF PROJECT GUITAR PARTS

USUALLY FOUND ARRANGEMENT FOR TYPE 303/503 FLOATING PICKUPS:

EXAMPLE 1:

EXAMPLE 2:

A VERY UNUSUAL TYPE 203/503 FLOATING PICKUP

ALAN'S COMMENTS ON THIS STRANGE PICKUP:

I’ve never seen one of these before, nor can I discovered any information on it.

It has 6 individual coils, with pole pieces in the centre of each coil. Between each pair of coils there is a magnet, so there are three assemblies with three magnets that feeds two coils. Each coil is wired in series and although I could not measure every coil, the resistances that I did measure were 20 ohms, so I calculate this at 120 ohms which is a ridiculously low impedance for a pick up.

I assume that this was an experimental pickup and perhaps did not go into mass production. I repaired the pick up, but used an air coil and a single magnet with excellent results!

NOTE:

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