Single coil SHGP pickups
I liked my Fernandez with three single coils. It sounded good when played through my Trace Elliot Velocette. And it sounded good with my Aqua Fuzz pedal. But since I know Smit, and I kept hearing how great his humbucker sounded, kept reading about how others liked the tone, 
I had had to see if a set of SHGP single coils would inspire me.
The pickups are vintage inspired. Cloth wire, fiberboard plates. Unlike the originals, these have 6 individual magnets. The originals had a bar magnet with 6 steel posts. Add in the tweaks that Smit makes to the bridge, middle, and neck position and even before I heard them, I was getting enthusiastic. Smit has years of experience playing strats, and has a great feel for how to make the most of every pickup position. Smit made the neck 6.2k, the middle pickup reverse polarity 6k, and the bridge 6.5k.
The installation was a piece of cake, and the original pickups covers fit the SHGP pickups just fine. Though a set of covers were included just in case.
Wow. Was I blown away. I’m a basic blues tone, classic rock (mostly 60s rock) kind of guy. I use one clean tone, one dirty tone with my Aqua Fuzz pedal mostly. Sometimes I use my Boss DS-1. With my old pickups, I found I mostly used the neck position, or sometimes the neck/mid position and pretty much left it. The bridge was too thin.
Well, with these SHGP pickups, I now have an entirely new axe. Every pickup postion has a different quality, and each one is musical. The neck postition has noteable low end. The bridge has a fat quality that, when put through my fuzz pedal, just said “60s fuzz”. One chord, 60s tone. I don’t know how else to put it into words. And the middle position had its own character. There is now a palette of five distinct musical tones to use. These pickups exceeded my expectations.
The pickups are worthy of far better quality than the audio on my Canon G9, but FLAC files and inspired music will be coming as the muse finds time to noodle with the old familiar axe now loaded with new tones.
SHGP single coil pickups, Fernandez guitar, Trace Elliot Velocette amp, Aqua Fuzz fuzz pedal, Canon G9 video
