Guitar Single Coil Pickup, 3 Pcs/Set Magnet Single Coil Neck Middle Bridge SSS Pickup Set for ST Style Guitar Accessory Parts(Black)

Got these for a cheap strat knockoff. Had a Gold Lace sensor in the neck position and a Blue one in the bridge pos. I liked the Gold but it wasn't anything special imo,; the blue was just meh. Middle p/u was a Carven pickup BTW.Anyway, installed these pickups and wow, instant improvement. I noticed increased sustain for one. I mean a very noticeable increase. When bending the strings, it also sounded smoother or something, but it could be a product of the better sustain I guess where the notes don't fade so dramatically. But yeah, so far I really like them. I tend to play with a clean sound or light overdrive so I can't speak to any feedback issues or how they sound with heavy distortion.Finally the cons: The description claims the n, m, and bridge pickups have different resistances and the pole pieces are spaced differently (48, 50, 52). That was not the case for me. They were all identical in spacing and resistances.As for how to wire them. They have 4 wires (black, white, red, green) plus a bare ground wire. The black and white comprise one coil, red and green the other coil. You can see it on the bottom of the pickup. The red & white are soldered together and the green & bare wire are soldered together as well. If you want to use them as regular humbuckers, the green/bare wires are your ground wires, tape or heat shrink the red & white wires so they don't contact anything, and use the black wire as your hot or signal wire (usually goes to the pickup selector swtch). The red and white wires come into play if you want to coil split the humbuckers. You can search online or YouTube for how to videos for that.

For inexpensive pickups, these are really nicely wound, nicely wired, and have a great sound. Highly recommended. I'm at these with a "grease bucket" style tone circuit and they sound phenomenal. The look, also, it's perfectly with these few guitars I've built.

For all those people out there who don't know how to read a humbucker:1. You will need something that will read resistance, like an ohmmeter, which can be bought at any Harbor Freight for just a few bucks.2. Start by identifying the larger black wire that has the shielded wire inside that attaches to the back of the pickup, and also has a lead that goes into the pickup. This is your starting Ground.3. Separate the soldered pair. You now have four leads. Keep them all APART for now.4. Using the Ohmmeter, set to any resistance setting, put one lead on the Ground black wire, and move the other lead from the Ohmmeter around until you get a resistance reading, probably somewhere in the 4-5K Ohm area. You now know one coil, Ground to Hot.5. Write down the two colors, remembering which is Hot, which is Ground.6. The second lead you discovered in the previous step would represent the Hot for one coil, and should have been one of the initially connected pair. The other lead from that pair is your Ground for your second coil, and the remaining lead is the Hot for the second coil. Write down these colors as Hot and Ground for coil two.The only thing you will not be able to tell is which coil is wound on top of the other, but in my experience, as long as you do the same thing for all pickups, it will be fine since the magnetic bars go through both coils, getting their magnetism from the ceramic bar magnet on the bottom.Now you can get online, in a variety of forums, websites, etc., and find a simple diagram that will show you how to wire up the pickup for Series/Parallel, Coil Cut, or just like original.I plan on putting these three buckers into my IYV jagstang, and Neck and Middle will have Series/Parallel using the six connector On/On switches IYV used as On/Off, since they only used one side of the switch.My third bucker will go to my newly installed five-way switch, but also will have a small On/Off slider that will allow me to turn it on at will.Therefore, I can have in position one of the five way, Neck, and turn on my Bridge. I also can, in position two of my five-way, (Neck/Middle), turn on that small slider and have all three pickups at once, giving me additional tones.For the money, these pickups just cannot be beat, and they have that really cool retro Japanese look from the 60's. Love them. If you prowl around here on Amazon, there is a dealer that offers these in a seafoam green with the gold inside. Cool, but not my vibe for a pickup.

It'd be really nice to include Some amount of wiring information. Or a least a model name, so we can look it up on third party websites. Thanks. Also, they were scratched a bit on the face of them. Not a big deal to me, but regardless. Peace.

After I ohmed out the pickups, I discovered that these pickups use the same wire colors and coil layout as a seymour duncan version of these pickups. So you can save a lot of time looking for a wiring diagram. Just use a seymour duncan wiring diagram for a 4 wire pickup. You will still have to ohm them out to find which one is the neck (lowest ohm reading). Just buy them. They are well worth the money.

Thanks Paul for the best explanation of sorting out those wires and reading the resistance I've read anywhere on line in the four years since I have been nodding and building kits. I've done six guitars and on least three of them I had to rewire at least once. BTW with my multimeter all three of these pickups weighed in at 9.2K each. What's up with that. Otherwise they look and feel like quality pups. You can tell by the weight that they have a good amount of copper in them. Cant really rate them - not installed yet

These don't come with any wiring instructions and the color code on the wires do not match anything you can find online. I returned these. No customer service when trying to find a wiring diagram. I guess if you're a professional Luther, you could figure it out, but for the average person trying to build or modify a guitar, it's just hit or miss when it comes to splitting the coils or even just wiring them up as standard full humbuckers.

these pickups are very quite and sound absolutely fantastic only down side is they arrived very scratched up .

For 40-odd bucks you get a lot more that what you pay for. These pick-ups give great tone and deliver quite a punch. I used them to spruce up a pretty beat up old Strat and the tone is fantastic. Guitar sounds fantastic now and a joy to play. I'd recommend these to anyone looking to upgrade flat sounding and buzzy single coil.

J’ai remplacé mes micros originaux ( mexicaine) par ces trois bobines ( pour expérience) et non le son n’est pas bon ( trop aigu, mid + et manque de basse) doit corriger avec EQ. Ils ont un beau look c’est tout. Je ne conseil pas

Great looking pick ups…. I really wish they have a wiring diagram or something to help out.

The bridge pickup came in defective. I tested it with a multimeter and had low values, took the pickup cover off and found that the ribbon was badly damaged in one spot. The pickups that work sound good.

Amazing pups for the price, NO! These should be a 150$ set. They're amazing! Smooth rich tones, easy to install, well balanced, very versatile, cool looking, flawless cosmetics. Buy these, again and again. Great product.