Made by hand with the highest quality parts hand wound by Curtis Novak himself. Curtis Novak makes pickups for Master Built Fender and Custom Shop Fender. A boutique winder using the most quality materials available on the market. Period correct and specific. Incredible unparalleled clarity and definition, very well-balanced bottom end, mids, up to top end of the spectrum. Much greater quality of components and tonal capabilities than what stock pickups offer. It is in fact closer to a Humbucker in volume and fullness. It also has a Copper base plate for added articulation and punch. Removed from a like new open box item. Still attached to high quality harness-CTS Potentiometers with Orange Drop Capacitor and Switchcraft switch. It also has ingenious tone blender pot in the bridge position. This allows you to have the bridge AND neck on at the same time or vice versa. AND you can have all the pickups on at the same time like an APII series strat in positions 2 & 4. Yet another tonal capability found here.