Harmony Single Coil Style 1

Pickup features: Single Coil Pickup, Plastic bobbin with steel pole pieces, bar magnet epoxied across the bottom
Impedence or other specs: in the range between 5.8 K Ohms and 7.1 K ohms

Model of guitar or bass: Harmony H4 stratocaster copy (Later installed on a homebuilt Van Halen style oversized Jaguar)
Position: all positions
Pickup being replaced: Two of the three originally on the Harmony were used to make a Humbucker for a homebuilt guitar of mine
Other pickups on guitar: all of them are Harmony single coils of this style
Artists using this pickup: HA!!
You musical style(s): Metal, New Wave, Jazz, Grunge and many other forms
Reason for pickup change: I used these in my homemade guitar because I did not have the funds for a brand new humbucker. So I got smart and took the middle and bridge position pickups out of my then defunct Harmony strat copy (The neck from the strat was used too).

Perceived output level: The output was higher when they were in the Harmony strat but they sounded like a farting monkey. Once they were transplanted to my homemade Jaguar based guitar in Van-Halen II attire, they sounded REALLY good. I Think That the pine body of my homemade guitar had better tone than that strat shaped thing made of plywood splinters.
Tone: On the Harmony, they sounded like camel poo. When you put distortion on them they would sound like could not handle that level of gain. On the harmony they sounded like an electrified pie tin whent hey were clean. I only recall one instance in which they sounded good on that guitar and thats when the guitar was plugged into an $800.00 tube amp in the guitar class i was in while playing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. On my homebuilt, they got the "Brown Sound" down to a tee when wired as a humbucker, and you did not need to even set your amp controlls. All You did was plug in, turn on, switch to the distortion channel and it was 1979 Eddie all over again. For a fragile plank of southern yellow pine, that guitar was blessed.
Sonic evaluation: I ran both through my Epiphone SC28 Stereo Chorus without any external
effects back then. Just me, my guitars, and my amp, and the homemade
footswitch used to turn the chorus on and off and change channels.

For which styles and positions is this pickup (un)suitable: On the strat, unless your intent on making Atari 2600-like noises, you best stick some better pickups or get a better guitar. But on some garage concocted expierement, it works well for Van-Halen as far as I know, thats all I ever used that old thing for, until the neck self destructed along with the body.

Comments: Both guitars are un-playable as of now. All that is left of the Harmony is the body, I shaved it down, routed it for 3 humbuckers, and have affixed a chopped down Squier Affinity Strat pickgaurd to it along with the pots and knobs from my old Peavey Backstage 30 Amplifier. As for the Jag it underwent an added neck pickup as well as getting used as a Baritone guitar for awhile until the mysterious clear glue (which looked like the school glue that comes in those funny rubber tipped bottles) let loose on the fretboard and finally the neck self destructed, which somehow had an inderect impact on the body falling apart (sience then I have planed my body planks straight before gluing them). That was an amazing guitar, I made it in 24 hours and had it for almost 3 years with hard use, which is impressive for a guitar that was made by a non-luthier in 24 hours (it was the first guitar body I built). After that I had moved on to making better home brew guitars out of home made and premade parts. As for the pickups themselves, they are long gone. They just dissappeared sometime after the homemade Jaguar self destructed. As for the pickups, I give them a 6 because they at least sound good in an instrument that was not made by Harmony and made even more crudely than a Harmony.