best sounding 50's strat pickups

masterofinsanity · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:37 pm **Posts:** 49

im looking for the best of the best sounding 1950 era strat pickups for the neck and middle . also i have another question will these sound weird on my guitar cause it has a ash body with a maple/ebony neck so its quiet bright but in a good way.

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

Well, you said you want to get the best of the best. There's just one way: JOE BARDEN PICKUPS!!!

RCB-CA-USA · **Joined:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:31 am **Posts:** 1281

Howz about Bill Lawrence pickups or Bill Lawrence Keystone pickups???

Smokin' Frets · **Joined:** Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:33 am **Posts:** 1247

+1 on those as well!!

Midniterambler · **Joined:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:07 pm **Posts:** 267

Lots of good 50's style pickups out there. Fender Custom Shop '54's......Fender Original '57/'62's......Seymour Duncan Antiquity's.....Lindy Real '54's.......and more..

guitslinger · **Posted:** Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:57 pm

The pups on my 2004 50th Ann. Strat are based on the original 54s as far as I know and they are incredible pickups with great power and presence and brilliant clarity when played clean but they get very snarly in an overdrive situation.You definitely couldn't go wrong with them.

treedroppings · **Joined:** Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:54 pm **Posts:** 37

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Danno1985 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:06 pm

Just based on my experience with the Antiquity II (Surfer) set, I would highly recommend checking out the Seymour Duncan Antiquity "Texas Hots".

cechansler · **Joined:** Sun May 16, 2010 4:01 pm **Posts:** 393

57/62s are pretty awesome

Midniterambler · **Joined:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:07 pm **Posts:** 267

ExiledonMainSt wrote:

Just based on my experience with the Antiquity II (Surfer) set, I would highly recommend checking out the Seymour Duncan Antiquity "Texas Hots".

I've got those.....the "Texas Hots".....odd name for a '50's style pickup but I'm very happy with them. Maybe the best sounding set of pickups I own.

Toronado · **Joined:** Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:05 pm **Posts:** 2333

You could hunt down a set of "Custom 50's", not to be confused with Fat 50's, which are still good. They were (and perhaps still are?) available on Custom Shop models, and can't be bought aftermarket. You could try scoring a set on the 'bay.

Midniterambler · **Joined:** Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:07 pm **Posts:** 267

Toronado wrote:

You could hunt down a set of "Custom 50's", not to be confused with Fat 50's, which are still good. They were (and perhaps still are?) available on Custom Shop models, and can't be bought aftermarket. You could try scoring a set on the 'bay.

I've got a set of those in my CS '56 Time Machine Strat. I always assumed they were the same as the CS '54 Strat pickups. Do you know if they're different than the CS '54's? I mean I'm sure they're fairly similar, but every time I tried to find out exactly which pickups were in my guitar, it always said "Custom '50's". So I was never sure if you could buy them separately.

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