Single coil P-90 style pickups for Strat style guitars

These pickups are hand made in the USA and deliver as much P-90 tone that can fit in a strat size pickup cover!

Adjustable height nickel plated pole pieces
Calibrated strength twin bar magnets
43 gauge magnet wire; 10,000 turns on the bridge pickup, 8,500 on the neck and middle.
DC resistance: Bridge ~ 10.3 k-ohm, neck and middle ~ 8.4 k-ohm
Scatter wound coils
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 (RWRP) 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 was looking for something different for my strat and bought these based on reviews and sound clips. As I told Pete from Vintage Vibe, I will definitely be buying more pickups from him. They are the best I've heard and the construction and customer support are top notch!”

“The big plus that I found buying from Vintage-Vibe is the customer service. This is where Pete Biltoft is head and shoulders above the rest. His e-mails are always curious and prompt, as are his suggestions if you tell him what you are looking for in a pick-up. He will wind pick-ups to just about any specification you want, if your not sure about pick-up winding (as I wasn’t), do what I did, just send him a list of a few songs with the sound you want ,he will work out what you are looking for. I've had Fender Custom Shop pick-ups, Lace, Seymour-Duncan, DiMarzio, Fralins, and Gibson pick-ups. To me, Pete Biltoft makes a better sounding pick-up, and beats them hands down on customer service and value for money. Would I replace these pick-ups if anything happened to my guitar? I wouldn’t have anything else in my guitar!”

“I have tried many different pickups over the years, and I have not ever been satisfied until I installed Pete Biltoft's SP90's. I will never take them out of my strat. I have custom tele's with Pete's pickups in them, and an ES335 with Pete's P90 replacements in it. I also have a Les Paul that will soon have Pete's P90's in it. I have a new custom strat that I just got through building with Pete's Vintage Staggers in it. Pete Biltoft's pickups are superior to any thing I have used in 49 years of playing !”

Strat Wiring Schematic (pdf)	Credit Card Form (MS Word)
Sound
SP-90 diagram (pdf)
SP-90 Cover diagram (pdf)

Select Pickup
Part #	Description	Cost	Quantity
SP-90 SW-set3	Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickups, set of 3 (bridge position pickup, middle position pickup, and neck position pickup; middle position pickup is RWRP). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.	$225 set
SP-90 SW-B	Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, bridge position pickup (wound clockwise and magnetic polarity is north up). The bridge position SP-90 SW pickup is wound ~ 15 % more than the neck and middle position pickups. My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.	$82 each
SP-90 SW-M	Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, middle position pickup (wound counter-clockwise and magnetic polarity is south up). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.	$82 each
SP-90 SW-N	Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, neck position pickup (wound clockwise and magnetic polarity is north up). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets.& Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.	$82 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
Covers	Black, creme, white or mint green	$5.00 set when ordered with pickups	Qty

Select Pickup

Part #

Description

Cost

Quantity

SP-90 SW-set3

Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickups, set of 3 (bridge position pickup, middle position pickup, and neck position pickup; middle position pickup is RWRP). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.

$225 set

SP-90 SW-B

Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, bridge position pickup (wound clockwise and magnetic polarity is north up). The bridge position SP-90 SW pickup is wound ~ 15 % more than the neck and middle position pickups. My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.

$82 each

SP-90 SW-M

Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, middle position pickup (wound counter-clockwise and magnetic polarity is south up). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets. Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.

$82 each

SP-90 SW-N

Strat-size P-90 style single coil pickup, neck position pickup (wound clockwise and magnetic polarity is north up). My current design for these pickups allows the owner to change the magnets with ease. I ship these pickups with two complete sets of magnets. Magnet types available include: AlNiCo-II, AlNiCo-III, AlNiCo-V and ceramic-8. The AlNiCo-II magnets give a warm vintage tone, the AlNiCo-III magnets boost output and give a little sharper attack. The AlNiCo-V magnets give even higher output and sharper attack; for the highest output and sharpest attack choose the ceramic-8 magnets.& Cloth covered vintage style output leads are standard (black lead goes to ground, white lead is hot output). Shielded three conductor output lead is available as an option.

$82 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

Covers

Black, creme, white or mint green

$5.00 set when ordered with
pickups

Qty