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Lundgren Pickups Lundgren Pickups: Offering Strat pickups in a variety of styles including 60's vintage. 50's formvar, blues, twang and hot. Website: Lundgren Pickups

Bare Knuckle Pickups Bare Knuckle Pickups: Offers strat pickups in several styles including vintage, vintage hot & contemporary. Website: Bare Knuckle Pickups

Rio Grande Rio Grande: A wide variety of Strat pickups including vintage, hybrid types, high power and combinations in between. All are offered with reverse wound/reverse polarity option, in a large selection of colors and in singles, combinations with other pickups or sets.Website: Rio Grande

Stan Hinesley Pickups Stan Hinesley Pickups: fThese Strat pickups sets have lush hand beveled Alnico 5 magnets with the middle pickup is reverse wound/reverse polarity for hum canceling in positions 2 and 4. These come in vintage, texas, hot, reverse staggered & steel poled.Website: Stan Hinesley Pickups

Harmonic Design Harmonic Design: Offers 3 types of Strat pickups, the '54 special which is a vintage pickup, the Vintage plus which is a high output vintage pickup and the Super90 for the bridge. All pickup sets are reverse-wound, reverse-polarity for hum canceling.Website: Harmonic Design

OC Duff OC Duff: Offers tow basic types of Start pickup. The Traditional series features tempered Alnico 5 staggered magnets, 42 gauge Formvar wire, scatter wound on lacquered fiberboard bobbins. Potted in Paraffin and Beeswax. Choose 42 gauge Formvar coil wire for classic, warm late 50's, early 60's tone. 42 gauge Plain Enamel coil wire for clearer, brighter mid-late 60's tone. Output: 5.6K middle and neck, bridge 5.6K or 6.3K. RWRP option. The Special Stock series has many of the same feature but with an output: 6K neck and middle, 6K or 6.8K bridge. RWRP option.Website: OC Duff

Kinman Kinman: Offers a few different sets of Strat pickups including a traditional MKII set  witha complex Alnico character, excellent dynamics, projection and definition that are retained even when distorted. Fluid, shimmery, chimey highs (never thin or Ice picky) More punch and thwack on the wound strings than a regular single coil. Has excellent twang and growl. 'Caricature' of classic vintage Alnico Strat* tone, with NoHum; a blues set that is ess aggressive, rounder Aged *Strat sound with softer attack than the Trad Mk-II in clean mode and breaks into crunch more easily. Lots of Alnico detail but less bright tone, medium strong output. Also great for smooth overdrive sounds with 'clarity and TONE', with Zero Hum; & wood stock set which has explosive attack with exceptional clarity, definition and and projection that breaks into crunch under heavy pick attack. Heaps of Alnico tone character. Overdosed with projection and plenty of grit and powerful top end chime. Great for Heavy Rock and extreme distortion. High output and never too harsh, with the supreme advantage of NoHum.. A Hank Marvin set is also available. Website: Kinman

RMC Pickups RMC Pickups: Manufacturer of polyphonic bridge pickups for electric guitars.  Features retrofitted saddles for strat/tele & compatabiles; individual string saddles for minumum crosstalk; i

ndividually adjustable height and intonation; matched transducer sets for even string sound; excellent synth tracking and dynamic response; is compatable with most amps.  

Website: RMC Pickups

DiMarzio DiMarzio: DiMarzio manufactures two series of strat pickups: the Hum Canceling Strat, which has 21 different models, and the Standard Strat, which comes in 9 models.Website: DiMarzio

Fender Fender: Fender manufacturers four models of strat pickup.  The Custom '54 vintage style Strat pickups features staggered, hand beveled, Alnico 5 magnets and Formvar magnet wire wound for classic bell tones, and clear harmonic enhancement. The bridge pickup is calibrated for increased, balanced output.  The Custom '69 has the tone you'll fall in love with. Own the tone that defined an era.  The Texas Special has plenty of midrange chirp, crystal highs and tight bass. Alnico 5 magnets and enamel coated magnet wire create the increased output that demands respect.  The Lace Sensor continues continue to be some of our most popular pickups to date. Each color represents a different sound: Red is the scorcher with high output, lots of midrange harmonics and crunch like a hot humbucking pickup. Website: Fender

Fralin Pickups Fralin Pickups: The Fralin Strat® replacement pickups come in six models, from the cleanest and brightest to the heaviest and most powerful. The Vintage Hot is wound with 42 gauge Heavy Formvar wire and has beveled magnets and cloth leads. The neck and middle pickups are average 50’s specs, while the bridge is as hot as possible with this wire. A 5% underwind is available for an even brighter clearer tone.  The Real 54's is a “Vintage Hot” wind on beveled Alcinco III  magnets.  This is the same magnet material Fender used in ‘54 Strats.  The Blues Special is wound with 42 SPN and has 5% more turns than the Vintage Hot. This makes it a 5% stronger pickup. It will have 5% more mids and 5% less high end. It is ideal for a stock sound with just enough thickness for single note soloing.  The High Output set uses 43 gauge wire and is over wound either 10% or 15% for a stronger, slightly darker sound.  the Steel Poled (42) is built with adjustable pole pieces (steel) and bar magnets and wound with 42 gauge wire for 20% more output with the same number of turns as the Blues Special set. These pickups take on some of the characteristics of a P-90 for a big, round Strat tone.  The Steel Poled (43) is wound on adjustable pole pieces (steel) and bar magnets with 43 gauge wire for 25% more output. The bridge of this set has the output of a P-90.Website: Fralin Pickups

Curtis Novak Curtis Novak: The Curtis Novak Stratocaster Replacement Pickups come in four models.  The STR-V is

wound to vintage specifications, or can be custom wound to your specifications. Available in A2, A3, A5 magnets and Formvar or Enamel wire. The STR-V Set is also wound to vintage or custom specifications. The STR-V Drop includes a calibrated set of pickups, 3 pots, 5 way switch, capacitor, vintage style push back wire. The STR-TB is designed to replace the weak bridge pickup on a Strat with the bite of a Tele. It is designed to fit in a universal Strat route, The bobbin top is designed to fit in a standard Strat pickup cover and pickguard, but everything else is Tele including the base plate and Tone!

Website: Curtis Novak

BG Pups BG Pups: The BG Pups Vintage 60 Singlecoil captures the vibe of the early to mid 60s Strat pickups. These pups are made with vintage fibre flatwork, alnico 5 magnets, cloth hookup wire, and Formvar coated wire. They have a great clear chimey sound with great 3 dimensional tones on the 2 and 4 settings. These pups have staggered polepieces.

Features include an Alnico 5 magnet and can be wound as a calibrated set. Can also be wound RWRP for hum canceling in the 2 and 4 settings.

Website: BG Pups

Wizard Pickups Wizard Pickups: The Wizard Strat Pickups come in seven models:  TweedTone, Spangle, Timeless, Texas, TripleCream, Freaky and the Limited Edition Optional Extra.  All of our Strat type pickups are available as sets and all can have the middle pickup RW/RP for humbucking in positions 2 and 4. Unless specifically stated Wizard replacements have fibre bobbins and cloth hook up wire. All come with either black or white covers. Each is handwound to order but they will normally be despatched within two working days.  Website: Wizard Pickups

Wolfetone Wolfetone: Wolfetone Strat styel pickups come in three models.  The Cub pickups use Alnico V magnets and have an ohm range up to 7k ohm. These pickups have a very nice vintage tone, with nice, tight bass, smooth midrange, and glassy, but not brittle highs. Frequency responses can be customized to achieve more or less bass, mids and highs.  The Bitch pickups have an output above 7k and also use Alnico V magnets. Made for a modern style, they're more punchy than the Cub series. Particularly good in the bridge position when coupled with Cubs in the neck and middle.  The Flasback Strat pickups are 60's style "Greybottom" single coils using a light grey fibre material for the lower bobbin flange. They are wound with Plain Enamel wire to '60's specs, and use staggered Alnico V magnets.Website: Wolfetone

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