Wound, dated, and initialed by Abigail Ybarra.

Fender Custom Shop '69 Strat Pickups offer you a unique construction and vibe. These are the guitar pickups that can deliver the coveted clear, transparent highs; thumping lows; and bleeding midrange response and feel that define electric guitar tone as we know it.

Construction:
Just like the originals, these Fender pickups are built using height-staggered Alnico V magnets and a special gray bobbin. Each pickup is checked, dated, and initialed by none other than Fender Custom Shop master pickup-building legend, Abigail Ybarra, who has been winding pickups for Fender since the late 1950s.

Fender Custom Shop '69 Strat Pickup Set Features:

• Set of 3 Custom '69 Strat pickups
• Used in neck, middle, and bridge positions

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Fender Custom Shop '69 Strat Pickup Set Specifications:

• DC Resistance: 5.8k
• Inductance: 2.2 Henries

Fender Custom Shop '69 Strat Pickup Set

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the real Strat sound

Posted by jamman from Florida on Jan 30, 2010

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musican

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues,Classic rock

Being around in the '60's, these give the sound i remember.i put these in a 1999 MIM Strat,(all American parts inside,stock)the diffrence was night and day.very clear and great blues pups.Not for Metal,but everything else you'll be very happy with these.I play Blues and classic rock and they do it all very well.Pull the triger they won't be around forever.these won't be the only Strat that these pups will be going in.that't how much i like them.

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Great pickups, but over-priced

Posted by llmtelecaster on Jan 9, 2010

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Serious hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues & classic rock

These pickups are a terrific upgrade from the stock pickups that came in my american strat. They are much more balanced and lively. But I do have one big problem with them. The neck pickup is completely tinny-sounding and lifeless. I've double-checked my wiring and done plenty of experimenting with the tone setting to correct it, but to no avail. It might be defective, who knows? But all other positions sound fantastic. What surprised me the most was how good the bridge pup sounded. I love it.

To sum up, these pickups sound great if you're looking for that rich, classic strat sound. But because of the problem with my neck pickup, I had to give them lower marks in the quality and value scales.

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Great Pickups

Posted by DioCuritiba from Brazil on Jul 10, 2009

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock

Great Sound!! Worth every penny! You just can put your guitar down ... Absolutly recommended.

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Maple or Rosewood?

Posted by SeaFoamStrat from Cape Cod on Feb 21, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: 30 years

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues & Rock

I had a set of these in my Highway 1 Strat with a rosewood fretboard and they sounded gritty and dirty (in a good way) classic strat tone. I recently switched to a maple fretboard and I got a totally different sound, even better in my opinion. Now it's gritty, dirty and with attitude. Just be sure to experiment with the tone on your guitar, the height of the pickups and the settings on your amp before you jump to conclusions. If you can dial in the right tone, these pickups will make your strat sound juicy, gritty and nice and nasty! And you won't want to put it down, but you have to sleep sometime!

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Gorgeous

Posted by GuitarSlim from Ontario, Canada on Feb 17, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Recording Artist

Reviewer's Play Style: Power Pop

To start off, I own a Mexican Strat. It was my first guitar and once I got a job, I started replacing all the low-quality parts with the best I could afford. Strap locks, locking tuners, bone nut, tortoise shell pickguard (on a white strat, it looks amazing), and finally the pickups. You know those old blues or rock recordings from the 60's with the impossibly gorgeous strat sound you think you can never get? Well these pickups get those sounds. Bridge pickup is Blackmore-ish, middle pickup is thumpy and defined. Neck pickup is bluesy and great. For me though, it's the in-between settings (out of phase) that really do it. Bridge/middle and middle/neck are so sweet and rich sounding, you have to hear it to believe it. If you love the sound of early strats, buy these pickups. Play them through a good Fender tube amp or a Marshall plexi like I do and you'll never put the guitar down.

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