Need strat pickups, lacking funds

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:37 pm

I got in my rocket tone phantom clone, and strung it up, I love playing this guitar but it needs pick ups.

Having never bothered with a strat, I have no idea what pick ups to look for. I have liked what gas has sent so far, but they have a lot of different strat pick ups. Does anyone know which of theirs sound good, or recommend some others on the cheap? Say, sub $75 for a set?

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:42 pm

For less than $75 a set, the Fender Tex Mex pickups are the only ones you should even consider. They're very good AlNiCo single coil pickups you can find for $60 a set, don't know about Canada tho.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:54 pm

i love MIM standard pickups.

or GFS always has cheap sets

find some you like in the states and i'll ship them to ya.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:57 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:i love MIM standard pickups.

or GFS always has cheap sets

find some you like in the states and i'll ship them to ya.

Bingo, $25 on eBay for a set from 2005

Working on the purchase

cur · Post by **cur** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:38 am

I have a couple sets of no names you can have one of the sets. One set is from my sx 24" scale strat and the other set is the no name high outputs that gfs sells. They both sound alright.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:41 am

Thanks for the offer, but I got a set from eBay. After this I just need some oddball switches, jack, pot, etc.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:24 pm

GFS regular alnico set improves any ceramic-unit-loaded Strat x 2.