New Guitar Day and pickup advice (long post)

[Brow]

Hey guys.

Just thought I'd post a few pics of a guitar I picked up today:




It's a 1993/1994 Japanese made Squier Strat that I got with a gig bag for £249 from a local shop. I bought it with money I got from when my Grandma died a few months ago as something to remember her by (I did the same thing when my Granded died a few years ago and I got my Gordon Smith).

I tried out a new-ish Jap Tokai Strat, a Fender Lite Ash Strat (I liked the playability and tone of of the guitar, but it had a narrow V shaped neck that I couldn't get on with), a Fender Mexi Closet Classic 60s Sonic Blue Strat and then this Japanese Squier. I preferred the Squier to all of them and it came home with me :)

Now comes the time for pickups, but let me explain my predicament:

I have a Jap strat copy that I pieced together myself from bits that has a Mahogany/Ash sandwich body and a maple neck/fretboard with no skunk stripe (routed SSS), a guitar I bought from Tom that has an Ash body (HSS) and a Mexi Fender neck with a rose wood fretboard, and then now this guitar (unknown routing)

The 1st Strat copy currently has Mothers Milks in it, and I have a Cold Sweat bridge (will be the only pickup on it's guitar) and a set of Apaches ready to load into guitars. The Japanese copy can only have the Mothers Milks or Apaches due to it's SSS routing, the Ash bodied 1 could have any pickups and I'm not sure of this new 1s routing underneath the scratchplate.

If it were you, which pickups of the 3 sets mentioned above would you put in each of the 3 Strats and why?

Thanks.

[WezV]

first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge

i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge

[PoshCollins]

I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.

Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?

[Brow]

first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge

i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge

Yeah, I realise I need to have a look underneath to see if it would take a bucker' in the bridge before I can make any decisions, but was asking hypothetically :lol:

I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.

Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?

Yeah, I already have a Crawler/Irish Tour/Irish Tour set in a 93 USA Strat. A VERY versatile pickup selection :)

[PoshCollins]

first things first - take the bloody scratcplate off and see what you got.. cant remember for sure what it will be on a jap squire of that age buti would place bets on it already having room for a humbucker in the bridge

i think it would look cooler with a nice humbucker in the bridge

Yeah, I realise I need to have a look underneath to see if it would take a bucker' in the bridge before I can make any decisions, but was asking hypothetically :lol:

I'm gonna put a Crawler-Irish-Tour set in my Custom blue strat soon anyway.

Unless you already have Crawlers in something else?

Yeah, I already have a Crawler/Irish Tour/Irish Tour set in a 93 USA Strat. A VERY versatile pickup selection :)

That's good stuff. Is there any pup combination you don't have :P
Moody Marsden to Sykes on the Beach then  PDT_042

Got a guitar with a set of Apaches or Sinners?

[Brow]

That's good stuff. Is there any pup combination you don't have :P
Moody Marsden to Sykes on the Beach then  PDT_042

Got a guitar with a set of Apaches or Sinners?

LOL. Yeah, I don't have anything with any of the 'more metal' pickups in. Although, I am looking for a set to go in my Ibanez, so I may branch out from the vintage/hot vintage stuff I currently have.

I have no Sinners, but do have a set of Apaches I'm waiting to put in 1 of 3 Strats as mentioned in the 1st post :)