John Suhr Pickups

[MikeS]

Had a guy in a guitar shop try to sell me John Suhr pickups for telecaster yesterday. I know a little of the history of John Suhr, but wasn't aware he wound his own pickups. Does anyone have or know where I can find some information about the pickups? It's got me curious, and Suhr webpage soesn't off a lot of information about them.

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

Had a guy in a guitar shop try to sell me John Suhr pickups for telecaster yesterday. I know a little of the history of John Suhr, but wasn't aware he wound his own pickups. Does anyone have or know where I can find some information about the pickups? It's got me curious, and Suhr webpage soesn't off a lot of information about them.

very underated and VERY good!

I really like his SSV a DVS buckers

http://www.suhrguitars.com/suhroptions.htm

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

here are a few reviews
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data2/John_Suhr/

 

[tone4days]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

i tried a suhr tele about a 18 months ago and if i had $2200 to spend, it wouldve come home with me ... those pickups were incredible .. so well balanced and responsive and QUIET ... had all the snap and twang you could want out of a tele for chicken pickin', but also had warmth while retaining clarity for comping jazzy chords ... i cant say enough good things about them ... they were a benchmark for me when i went looking to replace tele pups in my clone later that year ... i went with the vintage stack for tele set and am quite happy ... the suhr pickups were about 33% more expensive than the SDs i chose ...

good luck
t4d

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

Yeah, I'd trust anything Suhr makes. I've heard his HSS and SSS strats, and loved the pickups. There's a reason people pay $2000 for his bolt-on guitars.

 

[MikeS]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

How is the output on them? Only reason I'm replacing my Tele pups is because I need something with a little more "oomph" than the stock MIM pups.

 

[ColonPowell]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

Suhr pickups & guitars are awesome.

What till you get a load of his new noiseless system for the V60s single coil.

There is no difference, no compromise. Mike Landau & Scott Henderson are
digging this SSC system, and I heard it too. It's like 1962 strat with NO
hum.

 

[RGN]

Re: John Suhr Pickups

The Suhr stuff is TOP TOP notch. Even other custom builders like Tyler sometimes use Suhr pickups.

The noiseless single coils are the bomb!!!