Do you make a metal base plate for Strats pickups?
I did some testing on what makes a Tele sound like a Tele and how well a similar base plate would work on a Strat pickup. Testing was this: I made a Tele pickup and 2 Strat pickups with the same size and type of magnet same coil height and the same turn count. I put steel base plates on the Tele and one of the Strat pickups and left the other Strat pickup bare. I have two Strats that are as close to identical as you can get and they have matched pots—both guitars have pots and caps that read the same. I put one of each type of Strat pickup in each of the guitars. I could hear the tiniest bit of difference but the other people listening did not hear it. The base plate seemed to add the slightest amount of compression I could “sense.” Maybe I could hear it only because I was playing the guitars. But maybe I didn’t actually “hear” it; maybe I felt it more than heard it. There was no difference in volume between the two. I installed the Tele pickup into a traditional Tele bridge and mounte
