Cheap Amazon Pickups

UnderTheFlame83

UnderTheFlame83

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Anyone tried any of the cheap pickups on Amazon?

I was thinking of picking up a set of Fleor ones to put in a beat up LTD Viper I'm working on and didn't really wanna spend too much money on pickups for it. I may end up selling the guitar when finished. Just wondering how good they are and are they even worth the cost.
 
How much experience do you have swapping pickups? What do you have to compare them to?

Based on the reviews, they sound like legit pickups. Whether they will work well or be "perfect" in your guitar is unknown. But based on the price, if you just need something to fit in the guitar I'm sure they will be fine. if you are very exacting and have a specific idea of the tone you want, you may not like them.
 
Top-L said:
How much experience do you have swapping pickups? What do you have to compare them to?

Based on the reviews, they sound like legit pickups. Whether they will work well or be "perfect" in your guitar is unknown. But based on the price, if you just need something to fit in the guitar I'm sure they will be fine. if you are very exacting and have a specific idea of the tone you want, you may not like them.
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Yes I have lot of experience swapping out pickups. The pickups that was in the guitar were ESP Designed LH100. But I no longer have them.
 
UnderTheFlame83 said:
Yes I have lot of experience swapping out pickups. The pickups that was in the guitar were ESP Designed LH100. But I no longer have them.
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If you try them, then you will probably know pretty quickly if you will like them.

I'd order them just so you can tell us how they compare to other pickups.

Your question is like asking us if red is a good color. Yes red is a good color, but I don't know if that's what your painting needs.
 
I know sometimes the reviews on Amazon can be deceiving. I bought a nut file awhile back that had positive reviews. Turned out the file was complete garbage. Worst purchase ever.
 
UnderTheFlame83 said:
Anyone tried any of the cheap pickups on Amazon?

I was thinking of picking up a set of Fleor ones to put in a beat up LTD Viper I'm working on and didn't really wanna spend too much money on pickups for it. I may end up selling the guitar when finished. Just wondering how good they are and are they even worth the cost.
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I have two sets of Fleor strat pickups I haven't used yet. I bought one set and it got lost in shipping so they sent a second set and both ended up arriving late. I bought them because their resistance and construction look a lot like a set of Wilkinson pickups I like and I thought they may have been the same pickups. However, despite being dead ringers for the Wilkinsons and having the same resistance readings their inductance readings are different so they aren't the same.
 
I got a pair of those Fleor humbuckers, and an $11 "Hotrails". But I haven't installed any of them yet. I suppose I should.
 
I haven't purchased any of the cheap humbuckers on amazon, but I have purchased some P-90's. Most of them are ok, but they needed some magnet tweaking, but one of the P-90 sets is actually amazing...best sounding P-90 I've ever owned (and I've got over a dozen guitars with P-90's in them). I really hate to admit this, but those great P-90's have ceramics in them (any who know me know that I really, really don't usually like the sound of ceramic mags).
 
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