Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

[RGN]

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.

 

[stevie_bees]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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.

 

[RGN]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

Thanks 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

 

[RGN]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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 "hard" 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.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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 "hard" 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! :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: He's got his name all over it like acid trails or something...

Great guitars though...

 

[ColonPowell]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Stock Pickups in a Suhr Strat

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.