These pickups are hand made in the USA the old fashioned way and deliver the clear bell-like tone you're after.

• Calibrated, un-beveled AlNiCo V rod magnets
• Custom magnet height stagger optimized for string sets with an unwound G string
• 42 gauge magnet wire; 8,500 turns on the bridge pickup, 7,500 on the neck and middle
• 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 three 6-32 machine screws and silicone tubing sections cut to the correct length for mounting these pickups to a pickguard.

Comments
“I have been playing a long (decades) time and if these pickups were stolen I would replace them as soon as I could call Pete !!!! I LOVE EVERTHING about these pickups. The customer service you will get from Pete... packaging, paperwork and overall peerless service you will get from Pete will spoil you no end”

“I've been playing for over thirty years and I've built and hot-rodded a few guitars in my time. This is one of the best experiences I've had with aftermarket parts. The packaging, documentation, and installation instructions were the best I've ever seen. Pete Biltoft does an amazing job with these pickups, you can tell just by looking at and handling them that they're something special. A BEST BUY!!”

“I would buy these pickups again in a heartbeat! They are great sounding, well made, and quiet. They are the best-kept secret in pickups.”

“I would definitely have Pete Biltoft wind me some more p'ups. These are beautiful sounding p'ups. I've owned Fralins, Kinmans, Rio Grande, Fender CS, and a slew of others, and these are the sweetest sounding pickups I've ever played. Pete could charge more than twice what he does for these pickups and they would still be a bargain. They are very quiet, too.”

Strat Wiring Schematic (pdf)	Credit Card Form (MS Word)
Sound
Standard-S drawings (pdf)
Standard-S drawings cover (pdf)
Vintage Shorty drawings (pdf)
Vintage Shorty drawings cover (pdf)