[headcrash]

Does anyone have a feeling of how accurate large scale (and supposedly highly automated) pickup makers can wind their pickups to a certain spec or advertised value?

I have some examples:
I have two EvH Custom bridge pickups, one measures 16.74k, the other one 17.46k. A third one I had that I sold was more like 18k IIRC. In the "Remembering EvH" story it is "advertised" as 17k.
Then I have an f-spaced VHPAF measuring 9.90k, while Tonejourney's f-spaced specimen measures 9.59k, and it was advertised as 9.13k (dunno if as f-spaced).
Finally I have a 36th PAF neck that measures 7.67k, advertised as 7.31k.

I consider this to be quite a large range of values.
I'm just curious, there is nothing wrong with the pickups I own(ed).

But considering the hype around the gazillion PAF type pickups ...
(I mean, ok, there's probably still capacitance and inductance values that result from wire pull strength, or various layering techniques and whatnot. But does this translate into audible differences?)

Curious what's your point of view on that 

[nienturi]

Ambient temperature has a huge effect on the DCR measurements, particularly on higher wind pickups.

https://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/2010/04/temperature-and-guitar-pickup-dc-resistance/

I don't get it too serious. No matter if it is 9 KOhms or 9,5 Kohms (i mean same pickup model).

Generally Dimarzios are pretty consistant. I have some pickups that from late 70s, 80s and 90s and newer ones and most of them are pretty close to the catalog values. Contrastly the DCR values od Duncan is more inconsistant, compared to Dimarzios. Even their catalog values change in time.

[darkbluemurder]

Ambient temperature has a huge effect on the DCR measurements, particularly on higher wind pickups.

This is also what I experienced.

Anything +/- 10% is inconsequential to me.

Cheers Stephan

[nienturi]

Still, there’s one thing that really puzzles me. Years ago, Rich from Ibanezrules shared a post on Jemsite, showing the DCR values of some PAF Pros installed in older Ibanez models.

Jem Pickups
I haven't moved things back from storage yet, but this should make an interesting comparrison.
87' LNG
Bridge 11.5
Neck 12.5

92 GMC
Bridge 12.5
Neck 13

00' FP
Bridge 12.5
Neck 12.5

93' Donnie
Neck 12.5

 I found this very strange because the values were extremely high. I have DiMarzios from different decades, and even the oldest one has a very consistent DCR value. Has anyone here ever seen a 12K PAF Pro?