Ceramic Strat Pickups

Most of the mim standards have ceramic pickups although some special edition ones i have seen had alnico the natural ash body brown pickguard standard one you see sometimes at gc i can tell by the way the polepieces look the standard ceramic ones have beveled polepieces with different color compared to the non beveled darker color alnico ones that you see one certain special edition standards.

Ceramic strat pickups.

Magnetically speaking ceramic magnets produce a stronger field than alnico. The result is a slightly hotter sounding pickup with more treble response. I put some seymour duncan pickups ssl1 alnico 5 on my fender strat and i just bought a squier telecaster bullet with the basic ceramic pickups both use the same kind of strings and both have locking tuners and both body are poplar wood and the difference is there. Since leo fender initially introduced it in 1954 the traditional fender stratocaster has been known to have three single coil pickups and in the six plus decades since that historic day that design hasn t changed much.

Ceramic pickups give me a way better tone and a perfect break up on my tube. 5 0 out of 5 stars wilkinson low gauss vintage tone ceramic single coil pickups set for strat style electric guitar reviewed in canada on june 24 2019 color. A lot of people automatically say that alnico is superior to ceramic in pickups. Set ivory verified purchase.

Classic output stratocaster pickups our period correct vintage output strat pickups ssl 1 that deliver all the authentic avail in other strings positions. Pickups with alnico v magnets that are voiced more aggressively than pickups with ceramic magnets and alnico ii pickups that sound totally different from other alnico ii pickups definitely exist. Get it as soon as fri oct 9. Free shipping by amazon.

That being said single coil pickups have certainly evolved over the years allowing players to get different tones while staying within the parameters of a strat. Wilkinson high output ceramic st strat single coil pickups set for stratocaster electric guitar white. Don t forget that we are a seymour duncan authorized dealer. Ceramic magnets are made from ferrites often iron oxides.