Seymour Duncan SLS-1 Lipstick Tube Guitar Pickup

I bought a set of these, including a neck pickup, Reverse wound/Reverse polarity mid pickup and the SLS-1B Bridge pickup for an upgrade to a Made in Mexico Stratocaster. I'm still getting used to them. My other experience with lipstick tube pickups have all been on Danelectro guitars. These Duncans are nothing like the Danos.They installed without a hitch. They are a perfect sized replacement fit to a Fender single coil pickup. Wiring is a good 3 wire (single coil - separate ground) and the cable itself has an aluminum foil shield that completely surrounds the two signal wires for the coil.I read reviews of them that described them as "jangly." They most definitely have a clarity in the top end that is surprising, but they are also really beefy sounding in the low end. The most surprising was the bridge pickup, which does not have the almost shrill sound I'm used to hearing with stock Strats.The thing I found most striking about them is that they are very quiet, both hum-wise and mechanically. Without pole pieces sticking out of the tops, if you happen to press a string against the pickup, there is no click.To my aging ear, these are a very mellow pickup, not unlike SD Quarter Pounders, which I have on a Telecaster.I don't delve into metal, but I doubt these would be satisfactory for a shredder, but for a jazz or blues player, these are a very nice warm sounding pickup. If you open the tone controls up on the guitar, they sound like they would handle a bit of country twang with ease.

Very good ... zero noises, for clean sounds they are incredible, easy to install ...

Great pickup, just what I was hoping for from a lipstick pup

this pickup sounds fantastic. Nice single coil attack and tones. I use it with the RwRp and the lipstick humbucker from the Duncan custom shop....amazing sound and great look on a custom built guitar

It made so much back round buzzing, I could not use it at all. I'm going to return it. It was professionally installed by Dietz music.