so after dreaming about them a couple nights i had a custom set of flat pole strat pups made. i entertained the GFS pups, but i'd have to buy two sets to acheive what i wanted to do, and even then, it wouldn't be exactly what i wanted.
as it turns out my amp tech has a friend who winds pickups, so i met up with Jim on saturday and talked about what i wanted. my first question was if he could do a 70's type flat pole type, and he said he's done it before, so what was i looking for?
we then talked about what i had done in the past and what i wanted to do different. all this lead to a custom one off set. i'd heard the guy's pups prior to this and thought they sounded pretty darn good. he usually builds 62 type pups, but he's done the 70's flat poles before.
all this to say that i now have a set of flat poles wound 7.8k, 5.9k, and 6.75K, back to front. all wound the same direction, and same polarity. NO RWRP middle!
i'm putting them in a used crappy guard i have and will drop them into "bread 'n' butter" this week, probably thursday. tone reports to follow. sorry, i'm just so excited to get some one offs.