I've recently acquired a Custom Shop rosewood fingerboard Fiesta Red 1960 replica Strat fitted with over wound Fat 50's Abby pickups... and a mint green scratchplate...
Lovely piece of kit, but disliked the pickguard colour and foind the pickups too mellow and bluesy for Shads sounds...
A buddy, Chris Pearson, who took over the singist's role in UFB at short notice following the tragic death of Paul Lusby, brought a Strat along with Amalfitano pickups hand made by Jerry in Texas, and enthused mightily about them as the "strattiest" pickups he's ever used, preferring them even to the real vintage thing on some of his old Strats...
http://www.amalfitanopickups.com/So I got an SP set from Charlie Chandlers in London at a better proce than buying them direct, and guess what? Absolute magic! The best pickups I've had to date... they sound absolutely right to me...
And you'll want to hear them? But right now I'm not set up to record anything, but take my word for it.... just superb... and around the price of Fender CS pickups, or Bare Knuckles...
New scratchplate and now we look like this...
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