Creamery Custom Sonic '60 Strat Pickups

Handwound Tri-Sonic® Design Pickups, designed to fit a standard Stratocaster

Finally, after months of development and custom tooling & manufacture of the parts, my Sonic '60 Strat Pickups are ready.

Strat Sized Tri-Sonic Design Pickups

Based on the design & tone of the old Burns Tri-Sonic® Pickups, my Strat Sonic '60s have been created to fit a standard Strat scratchplate & cavity with no modifications needed.

Creamery Custom Handwound Sonic '60 Pickups - Strat Sized Tri-Sonic® Style Pickups

With custom tooled chrome plated covers drawn from thin brass and custom ferrous steel baseplates, my Creamery Sonic '60 pickups really do give a rich, versatile, warmer Strat sound.

Rich Sounds

With handwound coils pressed around the custom magnets and wax potted in a combination of paraffin & beeswax, my new Creamery Sonic '60 Strat replacement pickups give that richer, musical sound synonimous with the old classic Burns Tri-Sonic® design.

Geometry dictates they won't sound identical to the old 60s classics as the pickups are smaller (standard Strat size) and I use my custom made thinner magnets inside the pressed coil, but they do have the richer tone you'd expect.

Creamery Custom Handwound Sonic '60 Pickups - Strat Sized Tri-Sonic® Style Pickups

Strat Sized - Designed to fit a standard Strat guitar with no modifications needed

Unlike the larger originals, my Sonic '60 pickups have been designed to fit a standard scratchplate & body cavity but with outputs of 7k, 6.6k & 6.3k respectively - created to balance the old vintage sounds with a modern spin they have a richer, warmer, more rounded, musical tone than a standard Strat pickup set.

Creamery Custom Handwound Sonic '60 Pickups - Strat Sized Tri-Sonic® Style Pickups

With a choice of magnets, you can choose to have a warmer or brighter version. Alnico 2 'holds' the strings a little less, allowing them to vibrate a little more freely giving a perceived slightly warmer, more resonant tone.

Ceramic, being stronger, holds the strings a little more giving a slightly more attacking, slightly brighter tone.

Alnico 5 offers a slightly brighter tone than Alnico 2 but a little more rounded than the ceramic option.

Creamery Sonic '60 Pickups - Specifications

True Chrome Plated Strat Covers

Wanting these pickups to be something special I've had custom chrome plated strat covers manufactured. These aren't plastic covers, they're very thin brass that I've had chrome plated. I've also designed them with the Tri-Sonic® style oversize holes and more rounded/rolled edge covers.

They do look good.

Chrome Plated Strat Covers for my Sonic '60 Pickups - Strat Sized Tri-Sonic Pickups

They'll also be available in my custom design powder coat covers - red, white or black. More rounded than conventional Strat covers, they are still direct drop-in replacements for standard Stratocaster Pickups.

Strat sized Tri-Sonic® design Pickups - from The Creamery

Here's a couple of video demos courtest of James Ryan over in Australia.

Creamery Sonic '60 Pickups Played Dirty

Creamery Sonic '60 Pickups Played Clean

You can buy a single Sonic '60 Pickup here, or a full Bridge, Middle & Neck Sonic '60 pickup set here