Mother's Milks/'63 Veneers + Apache baseplate

[timmy_pix]

Yep, it's another Strat thread!

I've got a very lovely 2002 Highway One Strat (alder/rosewood) in need of new pickups. I'm 90% set on Mother's Milks, maybe '63 Veneers (sweeter top end as far as I can tell) with a baseplate on the bridge. So far, so straightforward.

However, I've seen mention around the forum of Mother's Milks with a baseplated Apache in the bridge being a great set for a more rounded/useable bridge tone.

Has anyone got first hand experience of this, or care to chime in?

[Telerocker]

Yep, it's another Strat thread!

I've got a very lovely 2002 Highway One Strat (alder/rosewood) in need of new pickups. I'm 90% set on Mother's Milks, maybe '63 Veneers (sweeter top end as far as I can tell) with a baseplate on the bridge. So far, so straightforward.

However, I've seen mention around the forum of Mother's Milks with a baseplated Apache in the bridge being a great set for a more rounded/useable bridge tone.

Has anyone got first hand experience of this, or care to chime in?

I believe Tim Mills (the owner of BKP) has this configuration in a strat. Just throw a mail at the BKP-team. I think it's a good option.

[timmy_pix]

Emailed the team and Ben commented on Tim's use of the Apache bridge with the Mother's Milks as being "unusual"! So I guess that means it was for a specific reason and not a secret awesome recipe known only to the pickup wizards. Apparently Tim has since put baseplated '63 veneers in that guitar as well.

Ben basically said the calibrated sets are fine for the majority of people in the majority of circumstances, so Mother's Milk set, here I come!

[Telerocker]

Emailed the team and Ben commented on Tim's use of the Apache bridge with the Mother's Milks as being "unusual"! So I guess that means it was for a specific reason and not a secret awesome recipe known only to the pickup wizards. Apparently Tim has since put baseplated '63 veneers in that guitar as well.

Ben basically said the calibrated sets are fine for the majority of people in the majority of circumstances, so Mother's Milk set, here I come!

The Apache bridge will sound a little thicker, but at the same time a tad softer due to the  AIII magnet. I guess Tim installed that combi before he released the Pat Pend-series. Anyway, blindfolded you can't tell the difference between the Pat Pend 63 and the Mother's Milk. They're very close.

I would order the bridgepickup with a baseplate. You get some more bass (and also a little more zzzing on the topend). Personally I don't like a strat bridge-pickup as a standalone pickup. I prefer HSS-strats, but each to his own.