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Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat Pickups  

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Get that Stevie Ray snarl.

Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat Pickups give you that classic blues sound. Take a set of vintage Fender Strat pickups and overwind them for more midrange, punch, and output and you get pickups with Attitude! Featured in the Stevie Ray guitar, they are calibrated for each position with a reverse coil, reverse-wound middle pickup for noise cancellation. If you want plenty of midrange bark and crisp high-end bite, get these Special Strat Pickups. Set of 3.


Click or call to transform your axe into a genuine fire breather!

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If You Love Your MIM and Want to Love it Even More Get These Pickups!!!

| Review By: Michael Haepers | 3 months, 3 weeks ago

3 people out of 3 found this review helpful

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This if my first time writing a review for anything I have ever bought in my entire life.  I have a MIM fender strat and I wanted to beef up the sound on it.  After reading over 50 positive reviews on these pickups, many being from people with MIMs, I decided to go with them.  As soon I plugged it in I noticed less humm immediately, switched up to the neck position with some clean reverb and I was immediately in love.  You will be too! Get these pickups....just get them. 

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Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
11 Years Guitar
Style of music you play:
Blues/Rock
Where you live:
Massachusetts

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1108368

Buy them. Buy them now. STOP READING THIS & GO OUT & BUY THEM!

| Review By: Ian Campsall | 8 months, 3 weeks ago

3 people out of 3 found this review helpful

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Like everyone else has said-vintage overwound pickups.

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I have had these pickups for over ten years and have never had a problem with them.

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Like many other people on this forum I had a Mexican built strat that was great and fun to play but the pickups were flat and dull.  I had these installed and jaw dropped.  The TONE.  It was the blues tone I had always wanted.  One very important reccomendation I would make is that if you have a Mexican built strat like me is that you get the pots swapped over to American Standard--including both the tone and volume pots.  After I did this I discovered a whole new range of tones with the volume or tone rolled off.  Furthermore, my guitar is set up so that the tone pot that controls the middle pickup also controls the bridge pickup which means I can create awesome sounds from the brige pickup on its own and the middle and bridge pickup together.  This really increased the versatility and flexability of my guitar.

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Like I said, stop reading this and go out and buy them.

Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
Yes
Musical Experience:
Played in bar bands.
Style of music you play:
Blues/Rock/Jazz
Where you live:
Oxcord

Did you find this review helpful? yes no1093955

very satisfied

| Review By: still_trying | 1 year, 3 months ago

2 people out of 2 found this review helpful

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overall these are great units to install. the sound is noticably more "aggresive" and full then the stock MIM strat pickups I had. the install was very straight forward. As mentioned by another the pick ups are not drilled. I just used one of the pick guard screws to "tap" the pick ups. worked great. also I to had to use my stock screws not the ones that came with the pick ups. my pick guard wasn't counter sunk to accept the new screws. soldering these up was pretty straight forward, but, if you watch the Seymour Duncan video of how to do it there are a couple things different. first he shows the wires just pop right off the terminals. Actually the wires went through the terminals and were twisted so it took a little bit to remove them. no a big deal just be forewarned. Overall, taking my time the install took just under an hour, including strings and tightenting up my tuners. well worth the effort to say you did it yourself plus the wiring is nicely cleaned up inside now. pick ups sound great and now I know what's inside the guitar. very glad I put these in instead of just buying a different guitar.
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
hobbyist
Style of music you play:
country, old rock
Where you live:
wisconsin

Did you find this review helpful? yes no892063

take 2...

| Review By: NHBluesMan | 1 year, 3 months ago

3 people out of 3 found this review helpful

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I wrote a review for these guys about 5 years ago and wanted to do a follow-up now that i've had more experience with these pick-ups. They are still in my project guitar but i've since swapped the bridge with a VEH humbucker (bridge single coil isn't really my cup of tea) You really need to take the time to tweak the pick-ups and your sound abit... I've seen alot of people complaining that these didn't add sustain, but sustain can also be affected by the nut and bridge on your guitar, i get sustain for days out of these pickups. If i could do it again, knowing what i know now, i might have gone a different route, but these pick-ups with my homemade strat feel like an old friend, i know how to change my playing to make them sing, cry, or anything in between, and they are a huge part of my sound. Don't buy these pick-ups expecting to sound like SRV, buy these pick-ups to get something that will respond to your playing, and give you great tones night in and night out
Do you own the product?:
Yes
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
active musician
Style of music you play:
blues/rock/jazz/worship
Where you live:
Grand Rapid, MI

Did you find this review helpful? yes no826075

classics

| Review By: Youngus | 1 year, 5 months ago

0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

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these pickups are rad.  Ive played a guitar with these installed and it gives a very heavy blues.  I play it through a vox ad20 i beilieve and if you tweak it around you can get the exaxt tone of sunshine of your love.  What a joy
Do you own the product?:
No
Have you used the product?:
No
Musical Experience:
almost 3 years
Style of music you play:
classic rock
Where you live:
ash burton New zealand

Did you find this review helpful? yes no884754

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