Stingray HH pickups

[TheOldDuffer]

Hi, I've just bought a 2006 MM Stingray HH. The pickups look unusual: instead of the two separate lugs for the screws on the upper end, there is a solid bar. Is this unusual? I've never seen anything similar in any photo or YouTube.

Hold the fort; I can see replacement pick guards with that shape cut out, so it must be normal. Why the difference? does anyone know the provenance of these pickups?

 

[tbonesullivan]

Those are what people call the "ledge" style pickups, which EBMM used during the mid 2000s into the early 2010s. Just a different pickup cover shape, and I don't think there is any sonic or electronic change at all. Both my Stingray 5 basses have that style.

 

[TheOldDuffer]

Thanks! Always good to learn a new fact