Looking at Hofner pickups can be a good aid to date your Club. The first Club´s, or 125/126 as they where named by Hofner, where fitted with single coil pickups made by the company Fuma in Berlin. They where quite large pieces with six exposed screws and chromed covers riveted to non adjustable chromed bases. Around 1957/58 Hofner had developed their own pickups and the Fumas where replaced by the much slimmer "bar" pickup. The first bar pickup had a rosewood base and cover with a black plastic top. The rosewood was soon to be replaced by "bakelite" and the plastic cover was occassionally available in white or even brown. In 1960 the bar pickup was replaced by a new single coil , with a slotted chromed cover, known as the"toaster" pickup. The "toaster" was followed in 1961 by yet another single coil, the "Super Response", with the Hofner logo in an rhombus and six exposed screws, known as the "diamond logo" pickup. Unpredictable as always, Hofner also produced the "diamond logo" pickup without both diamond and logo... and even without the screws...There was also a version with the word "Super" stamped under the diamond...

In 1963 the singel coils where finally replaced by Hofner´s first Humbucker, the 511"Nova Sonic" or "staple" pickup. Similair in size to the "diamond logo" but with six screws and six exposed "staple like" polepieces. When the Club 70 was released in 1967 a new humbucker, 513, also called the "blade magnet" pickup was introduced.

1957-1960

Black, occasianally white or brown, early models with rosewood base and cover, single coil

Super Response "Diamond logo"

Nickel plated, six slotted screws, early models with flat cover without logo and occasionally without screws, some models stamped "Super" under the logo, single coil

Nova Sonic "Staple"