I bought a couple of weeks ago a Classic Player 60s strat, which (is supposed to) have the Custom Shop 69 pickups.

As far as I know, these pickups are "created, dated, and initialed by Abigail Ybarra"...

I had a set of them in the past which had the initials of her etc, and a dark gray bobbin:




BUT today I took of the pickguard of my CP60s, and besides that the pickups didn't have the CS sticker, the initials of Abigail, etc the bobbin had a pale gray color...

I've read somewhere from other CP60s owners that the first models DID have signed and dated CS69 pickups...

So this made me think:

1) Either Fender lies to its customers, by not puting anymore original CS69 pickups in the Classic Player 60s series. It's not the first time that they do it as you all know: at first, they advertised that the CP strat series had full size STEEL block, which was not true...

OR

2) They decided to put some kind of "bulk" CS69 pickups, (maybe not "aproved" by Abigail), in order to reduce the cost of the production...



What's your opinion?