GFS pickups

I bought these ones (1 bridge / 1 neck RWRP) for a project to come, so I can't tell now :

https://www.guitarfetish.com/KP--GF...ar-Pickup-Cream--Kwikplug™-Ready_p_21943.html

I think that they are Korean-made by ARTEC, which built quality pickups.

What's your opinion about yours, then ?

A+!

 

I had both surf 90's and Nashvilles in a 5120. They are great pickups.

 

I put a set of the Slick 90 Juniors in a bolt on slab Jet and they're great, full stop. Even better when the set cost less than one Duncan/Lollar/Fralin/whatever Love the Surf 90s in my Peerless as well, but they are definitely doing more of a DeArmond thing than a P90 (as intended I think).

 

I've installed Dream 90s and Dream 180s in several guitars. Very fine pickups, even before you add in the price, which makes them a steal.

 

Great bang for the buck

 

Big fan of Surf 90s, not sure how much they sound like Dynas though. I like then in their own right

 

I've used the Slick Tele pickups and was very happy with them.

 

Another fan of surf 90s, run them through an atomic brain, they sound awesome!

 

Slick 90s here. Sound really good.
Also a fan of their slick Tele pickups and the NYII

 

Put Surf 90's in an Epi Sheraton....HATED THEM!
Thin, harsh and nothing pleasing about them....I think I am the minority here, but the stock HBs were much better

 

It's your ears that really count.
How do they sound to you?

 

I've been a fan of the Surf 90s for quite some time. But they don't always work in all guitars. I put then in a Streamliner 2655T a while back and they sounded kind of thin and nasally. I haven't played that guitar in months so I may pull it out again and reassess my opinion. I have a pair in the Cheapacabra Tele I built with a Warmoth ash body and a Chandler neck, and they scream. I put a pair in a Hagstrom jazz box a while back and they were very Gretschy. So I can't say they're a guaranteed improvement, but they can be. And for what they cost, the price of failure is pretty low. I've got an Eastman ES-175 copy with some boutique P-90s that just don't do it for me, so if I still don't like the Streamliner tone, I may do a pickup transplant.

 

or maybe change capacitors?

 

This has been touched upon before. Cause of the inherent simplicity of the P90 design(relative to other pups) many budget conscious part manufacturers have managed to make perfectly respectable sounding P90s.

 

I think you are exactly right here. Most P90's sound like P90's and sound good.

 

I love the surf-90's. I have a set in my black g5120 (currently on long term loan with my lead guitarist) and have just got another set for a as yet undecided project (Probably my D'angelico Premier SS). There a little softer allround than Dyna's (not sure I had them raised enough)but they still sound fantastic.


Two great vids that show just how the surf-90's sound