New Pickups Day!!!

My recent craze for David Gilmour has got to me! So my strat has to undergo some pickup mods!
Therefore, I ordered a custom set of pickups from Ornamac Windery, after scouring the internet for days for a custom pickup maker.

At first, the pickup winder, Kerry, did not have a Gilmour set available for sale, so I sent him a message on ebay, asking whether he could make me a set to match the pups of  Mr. Gilmour.

Surprisingly the next day when i checked my email, Kerry has already replied me with the build specs of : 

It's comprised of a vintage style alnico five heavy Formvar neck pickup with a vinatge 50's stagger wound to a conservative 5.5k. The middle is a 60's style alnico five wound with 42 awg plain enamel to a sweet sounding 6.2k. And the standout of the set, the bridge is a high output alnico two coil with SPN 42 awg piled high to the mid 9k range.

^ Taken from his ebay site.

After some problems encountered with postage and Singpost, I finally got this set of pickups at my door!

I have wired a pickguard up good before i have these pickups at my door (They were nicely packed in a USPS box and they were shock-proofed with Styrofoam pads) and as soon as i got my pickups, I dropped em into my guitar, complete with stratcat.biz wiring!

I did not have the bent steel plate to mount the neck on pickup switch , therefore, all I did was to drill a hole in my pickguard and install it straight onto the pickguard.

As you can see, its above the volume and neck tone knobs.

Here is a review of these pickups. The neck pickup is fat and vintage sounding, with scooped midrange and a glassy top.

The middle pickup is twangy, sweet sounding and is definitely the best for cleans. I absolutely loved playing through it for the cleans, even though I do not thread through the clean territory that often!! 

The bridge pickup is not a little bit thin sounding, thanks to the AlNiCo2 Magnet, while soloing through this pickup, you get a smooth drive and sweet highs (think comfortably numb), while not sounding thin. Also, it has the compression for you to cut through the mix, therefore, it is definitely a pickup to do solos with! Nothing shred crazy, but for classic rock and blues, definitely!

Big thanks to Kerry of Ornamac Windery for helping me out when Singpost decides to screw me over, kudos!!

So there you go, my lovely stratocaster, albeit not black, but my tribute to Mr David Gilmour!

If anyone is interested in pickups from Ornamac windery, here is a link to his ebay page: http://myworld.ebay.com/klea3031