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I am looking at a Suhr Classic (basically looks like a Fender Strat w/3 single coils) and am wondering if the stock pickups are any good. I am thinking in this price range the pickups have got to be OK. Anyone have any thoughts?

This is an internet deal so I won't get a chance to play or hear the guitar before I buy it.

Looks like this one...Any thoughts on Suhr in general? I haven't heard anything negative about them yet.

Never tried 1, but like you, I've only heard good things about them.

I just a sold a new bridge pickup to a guy who has a Suhr. He told me that the pickups are wound in John's shop and that the pickups in his particular guitar were wound like a vintage 50's or 60's Strat...meaning vintage output and that except for the middle pickup being RW/RP, all three are identical. He wasn't happy with the somewhat thin and brittle sounding vintage style bridge pickup but loved the neck and middle pickups. He ordered a hotter bridge pickup from me. That's about all I know about the Suhr pickups. He said they were excellant and/but very much like a pre-CBS Fender in tone.

Thanks Lew.. I figured you'd know a thing or two about these PUs!


Originally Posted by RGNThanks Lew.. I figured you'd know a thing or two about these PUs!

You're welcome! One other thing I just remembered: Mark Knopfler used Pensa-Suhrs for years but didn't use thier pickups. He had Fralin Vintage Hots in his.

Just to mention it: I've never tried a Suhr, but the nicest boutique Strat I ever played and perhaps the best sounding was a James Tyler. Really some spectacular sounding and playing guitars.

Lew

Lew- I gotta ask.. that James Tyler headstock didn't make you want to climb a mountain with your dogs and never come down?? I think they are really nice but that headstock is a little quot;hardquot; on the eyes IMO. There is actually a James Tyler dealer here locally so I may check one out this weekend. Thanks for the tip. I may be able to live with the headstock if the guitar blows me away.


Originally Posted by RGNLew- I gotta ask.. that James Tyler headstock didn't make you want to climb a mountain with your dogs and never come down?? I think they are really nice but that headstock is a little quot;hardquot; on the eyes IMO. There is actually a James Tyler dealer here locally so I may check one out this weekend. Thanks for the tip. I may be able to live with the headstock if the guitar blows me away.

I hated the look of the headstock! He's got his name all over it like acid trails or something...

Great guitars though...

Suhr's new noiseless system for his V60s is amazing. Scott Henderson amp; Michael Landau are digging it big time.

If I bought a Suhr, which I've though about, I'd probably keep the stock neck and middle, at least. I'm a fan of hotter strat single bridges, so like Lew's customer, I'd probably throw a Twangbanger or Steel pole 43 in there. I use the tone control to tame the brightness of those, so they sound like a cross between a single and humbucker.