GFS Pickups I19 Jimi Reverse Stagger Alnico

Pickup features: single coils, all pickups wired straight, no reverse wound reverse polarity middle
Impedence or other specs: neck imp: 5.3k; middle imp: 5.8k; bridge imp: 6.2k

Model of guitar or bass: strat custom job ; built it myself. maple neck, rosewood fretboard, alder body
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: cheap crap that came out of a squire strat
Other pickups on guitar:
Artists using this pickup:
You musical style(s): blues, good rock, stuff I write, jazz, etc.
Reason for pickup change: wanted a good tone for my strat so i could play it out instead of taking out my expensive jobs and beating the hell out of them.

Perceived output level: i would place them even with a mexi strat. i was actually a little disappointed in the output.
Tone: volume seemed balanced, tone seemed warmer than the mexi strat I tested against, which means they have more bass.
Sonic evaluation: I a/b'd withthe mexi strat playing through a mesa nomad amp run through a mesa 4-12 cab. that is not my first choice for a test of clean tone since every mesa seems to color the signal you put through it, but it gave me a rough idea...
all things considered, the pickups responded very nicely and did have a pleasing tone to them. i wouldn't have thought they were as cheap as they were for the set. they seemed to lack the ability to produce harmonics in the usual places. the 12th fret was fine as was the 5th, but the 7th and 9th were hard to get and i have never found that to be the case on any guitar that i have had. these seemed to be very bassy and i don't know if it was the amp or the pickups that were at fault so if i find that it sounds better on another amp i will submit an updated review later. again, this was a straight run, just the amp and the guitar. how else are you to know what the pickups are doing if you have a wall of effects going, right?

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: these pickups seemed alright for blues or rock as a layer of the overall sound. i don't think you would hear them as the only guitar in a band...

Comments: if these pickups were lost i would probably get something else. you get what you pay for, and while there is nothing wrong with the pickups, and if you enjoy guitars that have a different sound than the ones everybodyelse has then these are nice for the money. but in my opinion, the name of these pickups is misleading, and they really don't call the "hendrix sound" to mind when you hear them.