FLEOR Alnico 5 Single Coil Pickups Flat Pole Guitar Neck/Middle/Bridge Pickup Set Black

I bought these pickups to replace the cheap ceramic pickups on my made in China fender Squier Strat guitar. I was able to use my white pickup covers because they have the import spacing. Very happy with the overall tones, and the quality of the pickups. These are not cheap by any means. I purchased the staggered set. And they had cloth wiring. Very happy with my purchase! Going to buy another set to have on hand for a future project.

The media could not be loaded. For the price, these pickups are excellent and perform amazingly well. The sound quality exceeded my expectations, especially at this price point. My only gripe is with the packaging. While the pickups themselves are great, it would have been nice if they came in a proper box for better protection during shipping. I've purchased cheaper pickups before that at least included basic packaging. Overall, though, these are a fantastic choice for project guitars or upgrades on a budget.

I have a good size collection of guitars and did not want to pay another $250+ for a complete set of Seymour Duncan or Dimarzio pickups. As a result, I decided to give the Fleor Single Coil Alnico 5 Strat pickups a try. The pickups came in a padded Amazon bag and were wrapped in tin foil inside the Fleor packaging. The pickups were clearly labeled, wax potted with fiber plate bobbin, had cloth connection wire, and looked like higher end pickups. The neck and middle pickup measured between 6-7k and the bridge pickup measured between 7-8k as spec'd. After wiring the pickups, I plugged in to see what I was working with and to my surprise they sounded really good. Good volume, well voiced and not too thin. The 2 and 4 position sounded great and balanced but not as jangly or quaky as some strats when the middle pickup is not RWRP like these are. The 2 and 4 position is definitely hum cancelling but I didn't find the pickups to be overly noisy per say. The bridge pickup sounds great clean and great when playing into a distorted/overdriven amp. I was expecting that I might have to change the bridge pickup but after hearing it, I think I am going to leave everything as is. I don't know if I will ever buy one of those pricey name brand pickups again. I am very happy with my purchase.

Built a parts caster and didn't want have half the budget to be fender CS pickups. Cloth wiring, vintage output, and excellent quality, perfect for the price.

I bought a Fleor alnico 2 humbucker set previously and absolutely love those pups so I wanted some for my strat. Seems like only Seymour makes alnico 2 flat single coils. $300, no thank you. Fleor has alnico 3 but they're staggered pole pieces. So I went with these.When I first tried them I was disappointed because they didn't have the same mojo that the humbuckers did right off the bat. I kept trying them out and started fiddling with everything. Lowering the pickup height and rolling off the volume and tone knobs got me close to where I wanted. So I'm really liking these pickups now. I think they're keepers unless I find inexpensive alnico 2 or 3 flat single coil pups. There's a certain responsiveness or something to these pups that make them sound very musical. I had lace sensors on previously. They sound fine tonewise but just seem stiff and lifeless if that makes any sense. Compressed I guess, is how I've heard them described by others. These Fleors seem to respond well to nuanced playing/picking, vibrato and bending.The cons: like the humbuckers, the bass can be a little muddy, maybe that's an alnico thing, I don't know. Not a con but the treble on the bridge seemed a bit high/harsh for me but I have a tone control on the bridge and rolling off the tone fixed that. Or an eq pedal will do the trick so it's no biggie. Better than having a dull pickup that you can't correct for.

Pickups were shipped from China and took about a month to arrive. The low-E magnet in neck pickup was nearly unresponsive. Once installed, I found unremarkable improvement the over stock pickups on my Fender Squire Stratocaster (which is just a few years old). As tested, the neck pickup had resistance of 5.56k and the middle pickup had resistance of 5.38k (I didn't utilize the single coil bridge pickup as I elected to keep my existing 10.0k Humbucker intact--which really sings). As a side note, the resistance on my son's Squire Bullet "stock" pickups are 3.59, 3.56 and 3.68 in the neck, middle and bridge positions (all of which are single coil). Chalking this purchase up to another case of "you get what you pay for". I would not recommend these pickups to another buyer if you are looking for significant improvement in tone. In my opinion, if you are going to go through the trouble of purchasing and installing replacement pickups they should significantly enhance the tone of the guitar--otherwise what's the point? The foregoing notwithstanding, I did see modest improvement over my stock pickups (in the neck and middle positions) and my investment was not significant.