by phil kelly » 17 May 2010, 22:28
Hi Terry,
Prices are around £ 180 / £ 190 for a set, when you consider ordinary off the shelf mass produced Fender pickups for example are about £ 150 a set , i think these are excellent value for money , these are individual hand built tonal masterpieces by someone who has years of experience building / repairing / measuring original strat pickups , scatterwound with formvar wire just like Abigail did all those years ago but without the 50 years of wear and tear ! , if these had her name on like some of the limited runs Fender have done in the past they would cost the earth !, the last set of Abigail Ybarra Masterwounds i saw for sale was £ 700.00 ! just because they were wound by Abigail for Fender, These are built with only the finest components with various choices / options etc, a couple hundred quid is nothing when you consider what people pay for guitars and they have very little idea just exactly what the pickups are in them, the strat i am using in the demo is a bista for about £ 600.00 complete and it sounds just like an old pre cbs strat, i know i have owned / compared them,
Phil.