Cavalier Tiger - Strat® pickup, calibrated by positions. Based on 1950's to early 1960's Fender® Strat® designs, the Tiger Strat® pickup set offers classic vintage Strat® calibrated tone and volume for all three Strat® positions. Supplied with covers or string wrap, pickguard or body mounting screws and tubing. A favorite for the neck position in a Tele®!

Bengal Tiger Strat® bridge pickup - want more Strat® bridge output and increased midrange? This Strat® bridge pickup uses taller AlNiCo V rod magnets which allows lots more coil wire turn count, and that turns the bridge position into a smokin' afterburner of fat tone and output! This pickup is an option only for the SRV Tiger Set, or available as a single purchase. All Cavalier Strat pickups utilize 42AWG coil wire over AlNiCo 5 magnets.

50's Tiger coil wire turn counts = 7800/neck, 8000/middle, 8600/bridge.
60's SRV Tiger coil wire turn counts = 8200/neck, 8700/middle, 9300/bridge.
Bengal Tiger coil wire turn count = 12500/bridge.

NOTE: Unlike the early Strats of the 50's and 60's, most Strats these days are built with the middle pickup as RWRP (Reverse Wind, Reverse Polarity) which means that the 2 and 4 Strat pickup switch positions will be noiseless. For a three pickup Cavalier Strat set, order the bridge and neck pickups with the default setting of "ClockWise South" and order the middle pickup as "CounterClockwise North" (that's the RWRP setting).

Cavalier Pickups Build - Cavalier Tele®, Esquire®, AR90 (P90®)and '51 P-Bass® pickups are all built to respective vintage footprint specifications and all will properly fit into Fender® guitars and basses, or any guitars/basses built to Fender® pickup footprint specifications. I hand build all Cavalier bobbins with vulcanized fiber board flatware, AlNiCo V or III rod magnets, hand guided 42AWG or 43AWG coil wire using a custom coil winding machine of my own build, with Red Lion infrared trigger and digital counter. The Lion bridge pickup has a steel base plate and its wire coil is wound with cotton string. The Lioness and Fat Lioness Tele® neck pickup wire coil is covered with black or ivory/parchment string. All Cavalier non-tapped pickups have cloth covered lead wire. Light wax potting (which is the default for all Cavalier Pickups) will suppress feedback and microphonics well enough for the vast majority of guitarists and will allow pickups to render "lively" and "resonant" sounds with increased harmonics. Heavy wax potting is an option that may help those who play at really high full tilt boogie volumes with gobs of gain. In doing so, some of the "liveliness" of the overall sound is somewhat suppressed. Wiring - black cloth covered leads are the coil ground and yellow cloth covered leads are the coil hot side.