Pickups/Guitar Woods for Marty Friedman style of Music?

[asianaxeman]

holy diver is the closest pickup to the vintage JBs that marty uses, just get it, will be great in a soloist shape in either alder, mahog or basswood. def the closest bkp to give you marty's middy lead tone and when you want some riffage it has a magnificent crunch.

[darkbluemurder]

The Holydiver bridge sings in mahogany/maple and it sings in alder. It will probably sing in basswood, too but I haven't tried that yet.

Cannot say anything about the neck pickup since I never played one. I use a Cold Sweat neck together with the HD bridge. In another guitar it is paired with a VHII but I don't like that combination as much.

Cheers Stephan