For those who are interested here is my unofficial and totally biased top five of favourite aftermarket pickups.
No 5……..Bare Knuckle vintage Strat set………had those on my ‘mint and cream’ Strat……very good but VERY pricey…..
No 4………better value for money (all three pickups cost less than one Bare Knuckle) and nearly as good sounding: Wilkinson Vintage Alnico Strat set…got to be the best bang per buck on the market for Strat users.
No 3………Kent Armstrong vintage alnico Telecaster pickup. Another cheaply made far eastern pickup, but a fabulous sounding one for all that.
Worthy runner up………The Wilkinson Alnico PAF humbucker. Cheap as chips and nearly as hot! I honestly cannot praise this pickup highly enough.
In first place………The Di Marzio super distortion/dual sound humbucker, the pickup that started the whole aftermarket pickup thing……Designed in the early seventies and still as good today as ever. I had a pair of these first in 1975 in an Antoria Les Paul Copy….. it was a killer!
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