Pickups for a wenge Strat - sugesstions needed!

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Any of those "Fat" pickup sets will help you get a little deeper sound, but as far as the wood type, that doesn't matter much. There's way too much natural variation in wood to whip up a "recipe" for how a guitar will sound based on species selection.

 

Whatever the case, that Fender custom shop picture is gorgeous!!! Reminds me of the George Harrison Rosewood Tele, one of my all time favorites. Wenge (pronounced wen-gay I believe) is a cool wood. I’ve used it a lot in furniture making along with maple and padauk. Good luck with your project and welcome back to the forum.

 

Of course it sounds different. That wasn't my point though; if you had two alder-bodied Teles they'd sound slightly different from each other. Variations in the wood, values of electrical components and pickups, setup, etc. will all affect the sound. I really don't buy into the notion that you can reliably and repeatably produce a guitar with "focused mids and bright upper chime" (I've seen these sorts of descriptions before) or other such nonsense based on wood selection.

 

With acoustic guitars, harder wood means brighter and softer woods are warmer.

With electric guitars, the same rule should hold true but is less noticeable and is subject to flavoring through electronic means (pickups, pots, caps) and of course the hardware, scale length, pickup position, and the amp and the speakers in your cabinet also play a role. The neck will always have more effect than the body; the neck is 3/4 of the vibrating length. If you swap necks on electric guitars, the tone generally follows the neck.

You've chosen Wenge--that's a VERY hard wood, in the ballpark with the rosewoods. I predict it will be brighter than ash or maple. And it'll be heavy, so it'll probably sustain longer than you need it to.

When you're thinking about specific pickups to pair with the wood, think about whether you want to emphasize the same flavor that's in the wood (you picked a hard wood to get a bright guitar because you want a bright guitar, so pick something super bright) or whether you want to cut out some of the highs in order to make a more balanced instrument. After you decide that, check through this database: http://www.echoesofmars.com/pickup_data/viewer/

It includes measured scientific data about what they sound like, including bode plots. Of course not all pickups will be included but a bunch are.

If it were me, I'd pick pretty much any "vintage" style pickups and then taste test a few different values of pots & caps to fine tune the output.

 

if you have a wenge body, you have the best recipe for excellent sustain cause this thing is super dense and heavy...i would also suggest a wenge fingerboard for uniformity(i have one of those...love it) and you ll have a guitar which basically needs...no finish...and looks dark raw and sexy.I cant help you with the pickups,i found out that if i like a set on one guitar..i like it on the next...and the next etc etc after the player the amp and the pickups the material just doesnt register for me....

 

I always have to wonder if a difference in wood can really be noticed on an electric instrument. I've discussed it with many people who claim to be able to but, to be honest, I cannot. I can normally tell the difference in pickups but in a blind test I couldn't tell the difference between an ash body and a piece of termite infested drift wood...especially after the sound has been manipulated by the pickups, effects (if any) used, cord and amp. Everything will color the sound somehow even if it's to the nth degree.
This little game that @Otisblove played a few days ago really reminded me of how impossible, at least for me, it really is to differentiate tone woods.