Big fat sounding single coils

[Stevepage]

What's the best pickups to get for a maple fretboard strat that sound fat, juicy and punchy without pushing the amp into overdrive too easily? My Strat is incredibly resonant so I'd like to get something that compliments the sound of it

[Nolly]

Slowhands would be the first thing that comes to mind. Very fat, rich midrange, and a great singing lead tone. Almost like the Holy Diver of the Strat range if that makes any sense. If those are too hot for your tastes, the Sultans are the smoothest of the low-output offerings, and very tasty they are too, though the midrange is pulled back to give that clean hollow "cluck" that guys like John Mayer are famous for.

[gwEm]

i agree, its got to be slowhands here. i was playing my slowhand strat only tonight as it happens :)

[BigB]

Haven't tested other BKP strat pups, but the slowhands on my (very resonant too) maple-neck strat-like Vox Standard 25 are quite close to what you describe tone-wise. And while not shy, they are also the pups that push my amp the less - the amp being a HRDx and my other pups being a base-plated TS bridge on the same axe, BGF50s and Crawlers. The difference with the BGF50s is really surprising - for the same amp and settings (=> dirve channel, gain about 1 o'clock), it goes from a slight bluesy "just-past-the-about-to-breakup-point"  kind of crunch with the slowhands to a raging full-blast overdrive with the BGF50s.

My 2 cents...

[Doadman]

Just reading the title of this thread my first thought was Slowhands and nothing I've read so far has changed my mind. I'm looking at Slowhands myself because I'm after a sound that's closer to a PAF tone than a traditional Strat-like twang.