"Serious Tone for the Serious Musician"

These may may be may be the best single coils on the planet! Plenty of shimmer and bell-like upper harmonics. Wound slightly hotter than stock Fenders with a subtle improvement in the low mids. Each pickup - neck, middle, & bridge - have different coil strengths which produce 3 distinct, useable pickups, including the bridge. Middle pickup is reverse wound for hum canceling effect. 

Guitar Player magazine’s shootout a couple of years back described the Fralins as follows, "They’ve got everything - nuts, ring, shimmer, breath, detail - in sensational balance. They allow more chimey harmonics to bloom in the upper frequencies. You can sense string windings, fretboard wood and trem springs through the Fralins’ beautifully sweet, slightly meaty voice".

This is the one for the Hendrix lover.  These are wound similar to the Vintage Hot, but use wire identical to that used on 60's-era Strat pickups.  The most unique characteristic of these is that the pole pieces are backwards to give you that Hendrix-like tonal balance (since Jimi played a right-handed guitar strung backwards).  A must for that Band of Gypsies tone.  Middle pickup is reverse wound.

This is Lindy's take on Stevie Ray's Number One Strat.  Take a vintage set and wind ‘em 5% hotter in each position for that slightly meatier sound that blues players crave.  I can't tell you how many SRV model Strats that I've pulled out the Texas Special pickups and put in a set of these to make it sound like the real thing.  No comparison.  Middle pickup is reverse wound.

Take a vintage pickup and wind the neck 5% hotter, the middle 10% and the bridge 15%. Great for the guys that need to cover a lot of territory.  Gives you the extra power in the so-called "weaker positions" which makes for an extremely versatile guitar.  Middle pickup is reverse wound.

This is a special custom set that we have Lindy wind specially for us.  Originally it was just available in our custom wiring harnesses, but now we are making the pickup set available by itself.  We've talked to a ton of Strat players over the years and asked them which pickup positions they liked the most and the least.  Overwhelmingly, players favor the neck position, the #2 position (bridge and middle) and the #4 position (neck and middle).  Many players also like the cutting nature of the bridge position, but comment that sometimes it can border on being "too harsh".  The middle pickup alone seems to be the least popular.  Our Custom Set does the following:  1) the middle pickup is wound to accentuate the "quack" in the #2 and #4 positions.  These positions also retain a little more top end presence (you have noticed that you lose a little top end when the pickups are combined, right?).  2) The middle pickup alone has a little more "transparency" to it.  It has sort of a hint of an additional acoustic-like quality.  Especially nice for rhythm.  This pickup is also reverse wound to cancel hum when combined with the other pickups.  3) The bridge pickup is wound with just a little more meat to it, very similar to the blues special, only we add a base plate to it, like a Telecaster, to give it a little more punch and low end boost.  Now when you go to your lead position you can cut through the mix, but in a sweeter, less abusive manner leaving your nerve endings in tact.  The neck pickup is the same as a vintage hot neck pickup (don't fix it if it ain't broke).

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