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Bare Knuckle pickups is a small boutique pickup maker from England. They are mostly known for their custom made heavy metal pickups which they sell with a ton of options offered. You can choose your own magnets, covers and wires when you order from them. They are really and old school custom shop when it comes to pickups. They also offer great production models that encompass the quality that they are known for. The Bare Knuckle Irish Tour set is a set of their hot rodded single coil pickups. They are more known for their humbucking pickups but if you can make a good humbucker making a good single coil is a piece of cake. These pickups are voiced to be like a set of hot rodded strat pickups. These pickups get that Texas tone Fender tries to do with many of their pickups but rarely are able to get it. These pickups have that Texas tone in spades. They are ultra overwound and can push just about any amp but when they push your amp they still retain their vintage feel to them. This is pretty rare when it comes to hot pickups. Hot pickups tend to get super compressed in their sound but these remain wide open like a set of single coils should. These pickups have over the top low end twang. These pickups will really make your strat sound like its on steroids. They will give you a fat tone while still retaining the single coil chime and clarity. Since these pickups are designed to go in strats they are voice for alder guitars. They are pretty neutral in their voicing so if you put them in a neutral wood like alder you will get a good result. Putting these in a brighter wooded guitar may cause some bad sounds. If you are looking for a set of hot rodded single coils with a custom shop level of quality the Bare Knuckles Irish Tour set is one of the best ones on the market.