[chacheu]

Bought a Music Man St Vincent signature guitar with three Dimarzio “custom” mini-humbuckers.  This is the first and only guitar I’ve owned with mini-hums.  After doing some research, it seems there are two types of mini-hums.  One built like a miniature PAF with adjustable pole pieces, and the Firebird type with a no pole pieces visible through the cover.  The St Vincent pickups have the Firebird cover; however, if you look at Dimarzio’s website they show a minihimbucker with a Firebird cover but describe it as a PAF type sound.  I’m confused.  Does anyone know what style of pickup is in the St Vincent model. 

[buddroyce]

The pole pieces are just part of the same design. If you look at the DiMarzio website under MINI when you look up pickups, you'll find the DP240-DP243 models. The first two have no poles showing the latter have one set of screw poles poking through the cover like a humbucker. They're the same size and you can retrofit any of those in your guitar.


The ones in your guitar are likely custom wound versions of the DP240 and DP241.

[darkbluemurder]

Congratulations if these are the DP 240 in the neck and middle position. These are great pickups.

Cheers Stephan

[darkbluemurder]

Meanwhile I picked up a set of these pickups. Neck and middle are the DP-168, bridge is probably the same as DP-198, even though it has a different model code on it (no DP-XXX). At least it matches it spec-wise.