Fender Custom Shop Guitar Pickups

It's not every Fender product that gets the privilege of bearing the Custom Shop branding - far from it, in fact. That title is reserved for items that are a cut above the rest, even by Fender standards. Which means that if you're looking for a set of pickups that's anything but ordinary, this selection of Fender Custom Shop guitar pickups is the perfect place to start looking. They won't make you work hard to get in on the action, either: with their solderless 3-pin connections, these pickups are no sweat to install on your Fender. They come with all the necessary mounting hardware, too, so even if you're building from scratch, you'll be good to go.

For some great examples of what Fender Custom Shop guitar pickups have to offer, we can take a look at a sampling of what they bring to Fender's best-known instrument: the Strat. Choosing pickups for this guitar is a matter of deciding what sort of tone you want, such as the vintage accuracy, hot-rodded bass and rich sound of the Fender Custom Shop Fat '50s Solderless Stratocaster Guitar Pickup Set. Or, for those of us who are more into hot, bluesy sounds, there's the Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Solderless Stratocaster Guitar Pickup Set, replete with lyrical midrange, crystalline highs and a bass response that's easy to rein in.

All in all, it's safe to say you can expect the same traits from Fender Custom Shop guitar pickups that you'd expect from the Custom Shop guitars themselves: excellent build quality, reliable performance and a sound like no other. With designs based on the original vintage pickups that made Fender so famous in the first place, these pickups definitely prove that staying true to their roots is one of the best things a luthier like this can do when they want to keep the bar as high as they set it to begin with.