You are looking at a brand new loaded pre-wired pickguard with a set of 3 Tone Specific 1965 Blues Strat pickups hand made in the USA. If you truly care about your guitar’s tone, you should upgrade your strat with these pickups! The photo is just to show you the quality of wiring and soldering of our custom shop. It may not show the exact pickups for the sale. Tone Specific pickups are rated as one of the best hand made guitar pickups available in the USA. Check out their website for details. This listing is for regular 11 hole pickguard, and it will fit all Fender American, Mexico, Japanese, and Custom Shop strat with 11 mounting screw holes. There is a protective plastic cover on the pickguard to be peeled off when you get it. These pickups have the typical Fender vintage 50s fat, warm, and woody sound! We can also do any custom color of pickguard loaded with any pickups with any custom wiring needs. For example, you can combine Fralin pickups with any Fender or Duncan pickups; or add a Duncan liberator system or 1-3 mini toggle switches (like 7 function Gilmour switch, or the phase inverting switch, or a coil split push pull pot, or a Fender S1 system, adding a bassplate or vintage shielding etc) for more versatile wiring (extra charges may apply). Our Custom Shop can do ANYTHING you want! Everything coming with the pickguard is brand new quality parts. Brand new Fender 60s style 5 way toggle switch. Brand new Fender CTS pots (top quality, if you know them), turns extremely smoothly. The same American-made top quality cotton wrapped (shielded) wires used in Fender Custom Shop (Double-cloth jacket has a waxed cotton outer braid and a Celanese inner braid just like Leo used). High quality no lead soldering tin free from oxidation (the same used on high end stereo system). So all you need to do is connect these two wires to your output jack. Pickups are made to sound a warmer and clearer than most vintage pickups. Middle is RWRP to eliminate hum in positions 2 & 4. They clean up well by rolling off volume without losing clarity or getting muddy. Vintage Tone – Modern Innovation. This set was inspired by a really terrific 1965 set. This set was formerly called the “Gray Bottom Blues Set” but player from all genres were telling us this should be called the “everything set” because it covered so much ground. Our painstaking design and testing process has yielded pickups that that sound great with tube amps, pedals, solid state amps, digital devices and even software. This is the set preferred by most pro players. It takes a little longer to make than our typical set so it cost a more but you’ll appreciate the attention to detail from the first note. We have a hard time making these quickly enough because pro’s are putting these in all of their main guitars including their vintage guitars. In this era of technology, everyone seems to have a home recording studio. As a result, the session scene has never been more competitive. If you want to make it these days, then you need to make every note count. Top Session Players understand this & choose Tone Specific to equip all of their main studio guitars. Your next session date might be in a real studio. The producer might ask you to just bring your guitar, when you show up they might have you plug into a modeler or computer rig. If you show up with average pickups, you might not get a second chance. Our pickups are optimized to work well with vintage style amps as well as modern modeling digital devices. This is why serious session guitarists use Tone Specific Pickups. Life as a Professional Guitarist is filled with ups and downs. All gigs and tours end eventually, this reality makes every performance an audition. Top Pros know this & this is why they suffer over every detail. You’ve spent a lifetime finding the right instrument, don’t come up short with stock or average sounding pickups. Top Pros realize that an amplifiers circuitry actually starts in your guitar, precisely at the location of your pickups. Anything less than the best in your guitar will make your tone less than it should be. Mark Whitfield says these are the best Strat Pickups ever made. Dani Robinson plays Jimi Hendrix in the Billy Cox Experience & uses this set in his #1 Strat that was gifted to him by Eric Johnson. Will Crosby plays in the BB King Band is Blown away every time he grabs his Strat. From Nashville to LA, Austin to NYC, Prague to Japan top touring Pros load up all of their main gigging guitars with Tone Specific Pickups. After hearing these pickups, you’ll for the same. Pro Guitarists & Luthiers have a few things in common. They both work in very competitive fields & the both want their instruments to sound as good as possible. Luthiers spend years perfecting their craft & many hours testing various hardware and components to get the best out of their instruments. We are honored that so many top luthiers and guitar builders choose to use Tone Specific Pickups. Stephen Marchione discusses his approach to crafting some of the worlds finest guitars in the video below. BUILDING A MASTERPIECE – STEPHEN MARCHIONE. Of course return is accepted if not as described. But if you simply don’t like the product, you can always return it within 14 days after receiving it! We work hard to accommodate any needs of our buyers including combined packaging and we declare custom report friendly. This item is in the category “Musical Instruments & Gear\Guitars & Basses\Parts & Accessories\Guitar & Bass Parts\Pickups”. The seller is “musictopia7″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Type: Single Coil
• Brand: Tone Specific

You are looking at a brand new loaded pre-wired pickguard with a set of 3 Tone Specific 1969 Blues Strat pickups hand made in the USA. If you truly care about your guitar’s tone, you should upgrade your strat with these pickups! Tone Specific pickups are rated as one of the best hand made guitar pickups available in the USA. Check out their website for details. This listing is for regular 11 hole pickguard, and it will fit all Fender American, Mexico, Japanese, and Custom Shop strat with 11 mounting screw holes. There is a protective plastic cover on the pickguard to be peeled off when you get it. These pickups have the typical Fender vintage 50s fat, warm, and woody sound! We can also do any custom color of pickguard loaded with any pickups with any custom wiring needs. For example, you can combine Fralin pickups with any Fender or Duncan pickups; or add a Duncan liberator system or 1-3 mini toggle switches (like 7 function Gilmour switch, or the phase inverting switch, or a coil split push pull pot, or a Fender S1 system, adding a bassplate or vintage shielding etc) for more versatile wiring (extra charges may apply). Our Custom Shop can do ANYTHING you want! Everything coming with the pickguard is brand new quality parts. Brand new Fender 60s style 5 way toggle switch. Brand new Fender CTS pots (top quality, if you know them), turns extremely smoothly. The same American-made top quality cotton wrapped (shielded) wires used in Fender Custom Shop (Double-cloth jacket has a waxed cotton outer braid and a Celanese inner braid just like Leo used). High quality no lead soldering tin free from oxidation (the same used on high end stereo system). So all you need to do is connect these two wires to your output jack. Our pickups are made by hand using slow and meticulous proprietary processes. Our unique QC testing protocol is both labor intensive and time consuming. The current wait time on new orders is about 2 months. We don’t take short-cuts and we can’t accommodate rush orders. The mission here is to make a pro-level product that will perform at the highest level, not just in the immediate future but for the lifetime of your instrument. You’ll appreciate our attention to detail upon striking your first note. Upon installing these in your guitar, you’ll notice enhanced feel, increased dynamics and more sustain. Our pro clients say the response of these pickups are unrivaled by any modern or vintage alternative. Wait times have continued to increase over the past few years as more people hear our work. The quickest way to get a set of our pickups is to add your name to the wait list by placing your order today. Scroll down this page to see testimonials and hear recordings from our pro clientele. Pickups are Designed with Increased Dynamic Range. You’ll Notice Increased Harmonic Content being Captured by these Pickups. Pickups are made to sound a little fatter than early vintage pickups, without losing clarity. Middle is RWRP to eliminate hum in positions 2 & 4. They clean up well by rolling off volume without losing clarity or fatness. Vintage Tone for Modern Times. The 1959 Blues Strat set was inspired by a couple of amazing sets from the late 1950s. This is the period of time in which they switched from the more twangy grade III Alnico magnets to grade V Alnico’s. This change delivered a fatter and tighter bottom-end while also increasing the overall dynamic range. We used these late-50’s Strat’s as a tonal starting point. Using special materials along with our proprietary techniques, we’ve added enhanced dynamics and increased sustain. These attributes will allow you to hear previously hidden harmonics from your guitar. These are tonal differences that you’ll immediately notice. These are the Best Strat Pickups for Bluesy tone. Many Blues players own this set but many other guitarists have added warmth and dynamics to their Strat with these incredible pickups. If your Strat is lacking, then regardless of your style you should install these to wake that old Strat up. You can’t get tone like this any other way. Sound is something you hear and tone is something you feel. Great Tone has the ability to move you & the audience too. Anyone that understands this concept will love this set of pickups. Our painstaking design and testing process has yielded pickups that that sound great with tube amps, pedals, solid state amps, digital devices and even software. Pro Guitarists tell us they are very tube-like in their response. We have a hard time making these quickly enough because many pros are putting these in all of their main guitars including their vintage guitars. There is a reason you almost never see these pop up for sale on the used market. Most self-respecting guitarist would rather cut off their hands than part with their Tone Specific Pickups. If you are like most of our customers, you’ll order multiple sets upon hearing these. Of course return is accepted if not as described. But if you simply don’t like the product, you can always return it within 14 days after receiving it! We work hard to accommodate any needs of our buyers including combined packaging and we declare custom report friendly. The item “New Loaded Strat Pickguard Tone Specific 1959 Blues Strat pickups Aged Cream USA” is in sale since Sunday, November 28, 2021. This item is in the category “Musical Instruments & Gear\Guitars & Basses\Parts & Accessories\Guitar & Bass Parts\Pickups”. The seller is “musictopia7″ and is located in Los Angeles, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Type: Single Coil
• MPN: Does Not Apply
• Brand: Fender