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Bootstrap '54 Vintage Sparkle vs Nick Silver White Lily

Bootstrap '54 Vintage Sparkle pickup
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low confidence
Nick Silver White Lily pickup
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Nick Silver White Lily
bridge Strat single-coil

Compared with the Bootstrap '54 Vintage Sparkle, the Nick Silver White Lily has an Alnico II magnet (warmer, smoother).

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecBootstrap '54 Vintage SparkleNick Silver White Lily
DC resistance5.6k5.6k
Inductancediffers2.31 H (measured, 3 readings)not measured
MagnetdiffersAlnico 3Alnico 2
CoilSingle coilSingle coil
SlotdiffersStrat single-coilbridge Strat single-coil
Traitsvintage output, soft & warmvintage output, soft & warm

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Output
100
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
90
Alnico 3 vs Alnico 2
Coil
100
same coil type

Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

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Nick Silver White Lily

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