Our Favorite Strat Pickups (for people who don't really like the sound of Strats): Fralin Steel Pole

Twenty years ago, I'd nearly hit my wits' end swapping Stratocaster pickups out of my #1 partscaster. Actives. Passives. Noiseless. Alnico. Ceramic. Traditional. Unusual. I thought I'd tried it all, and nothing was making me really happy in this nearly nine pound amalgam of an overseas mahogany body and super-thin American maple neck from 1983. None of it had worked, and candidly my sentimental fave was sounding anemic compared to my other stage guitars - especially the '71 SG with the P-90 or the Hamer T-51 with the Broadcaster pickup. Going from those to my Strat gave me the "whomp whomps."

I was living in Richmond, VA at the time and enough friends convinced me to go visit Lindy Fralin at his workshop. In less than fifteen minutes I discovered what I would really like in this guitar, how I think I'd been thinking about pickups all wrong, and I've been delighted for decades since.

Nothing to sell or promote of ours with this post - but if you like these pickups, drop Lindy and team a line, and learn more here: https://www.fralinpickups.com/product...

I'm going to post some more clips on IG from some of my other fave pickups and instruments, just cause they're really cool, and there are some excellent winders out there doing really nice work.

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