Blade Polepiece Single Coil Pickups for Strat Style Guitars

These pickups are hand made in the USA the old fashioned way and deliver the clear bell-like tone you're after. Buddy Holly would have loved these!

Mild steel polepiece with ~ 10” radius (other polepiece shapes, including flat available on special request)
42 gauge magnet wire; 8,500 turns on the bridge pickup, 7,500 on the neck and middle
Scatter wound coil
Vintage style cloth covered output leads
Grounded shielding surrounding the coil effectively reduces noise from external electric fields
Potted under vacuum to eliminate microphonics
Middle pickup is reverse polarity reverse wound with respect to the bridge and neck pickups
Bridge pickup has approximately 15% more windings than the neck and middle for good volume balance
Bottom flange of the bobbins is tapped for standard 6-32 mounting screws
These custom pickups are approximately 1/8” taller than vintage Fender™ pickups and will fit in all strat style guitars except ’57 RI strats which have shallow pickup cavities routed in the body.
These pickups fit the standard strat plastic covers sold by Fender, AllParts and StewMac
Each set of standard strat pickups includes stainless steel 6-32 machine screws and silicone tubing sections cut to the correct length for mounting these pickups to a pickguard.

Comments:
“I love the classic tone of these PUPs! Great clarity and excellent balance. Chords seem to ring out and with the blade design there is no drop in volume during string bends. Great job, Pete!”

“I put the V V G blade strat style pickups in my MIJ strat and now it is one of my favorites! These pickups turned a rather ordinary guitar into a tone machine.”

Strat Wiring Schematic (pdf)	Credit Card Form (MS Word)
Sound
SBA diagram (pdf)

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Part #	Description	Cost	Quantity
SBC-set3	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, set of 3 (bridge pickup, middle pickup and neck pickup), ceramic magnets, neck pickup, RWRP	$268 set
SBC-B	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, bridge pickup (North up, clockwise), ceramic magnets	$96 each
SBC-M	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, middle pickup (South up, counter clockwise), ceramic magnets	$96 each
SBC-N	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, neck pickup (North up, clockwise), ceramic magnets	$96 each
SBA-set3	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, set of 3 (bridge pickup, middle pickup and neck pickup), AlNiCo-V magnets, neck pickup, RWRP	$268 set
SBA-B	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, bridge pickup (North up, clockwise), AlNiCo-V magnets	$96 each
SBA-M	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, middle pickup (South up, counter clockwise), AlNiCo-V magnets	$96 each
SBA-N	Blade polepiece single coil pickups for strat style guitars, neck pickup (North up, clockwise), AlNiCo-V magnets	$96 each
Magnets	Purchasing a quantity of 1, 2, 4, or 6 Please note that two magnets are needed per pick-up	$2.25 each
Magnets	Purchasing a quantity of 8, 10, or 12 Please note that two magnets are needed per pick-up	$2.00 each

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