Rene Martinez Texas Strat® Pickup
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Rene Martinez was originally Stevie Ray Vaughan's hand-picked guitar tech. He also worked with Eddie Brickell, Mick Jones of Foreigner, Clint Black, Prince, The Moody Blues, Jimmie Vaughan, Carlos Santana, and currently John Mayer. You can find out more about his amazing career here. Mojotone is excited and honored to have worked with such a renowned luthier to develop our Rene Martinez "Texas" Strat® Pickups.
The magnets are customized Alnico III in the neck and middle and Alnico V in the bridge to give a full and balanced tone. You get that clean, ultra clear neck and middle tone that lets your amp shape your tone, while the bridge pickup is hotter with more girth and punch, and a sonic clarity that cuts through with attitude. The coils are calibrated from neck to bridge for an even volume throughout the switching.
Be the first in your town to own a set designed by such an acclaimed luthier. These come stock with staggered magnets with a raised D specifically for unwound 3rd string sets. RWRP middle position to be hum-cancelling in positions 2 and 4. Vacuum potted coils.
Middle (RWRP): 6.2k
Magnet: Alnico 3
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Magnet: Alnico 5
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8 reviews
Excellent
by Peter M
As a follow up to the previous write-up and bought two more sets of Martinez/Mojo pickups. I have this Wildwood 10 limited edition postmodern Strat that I call "Brownie" and she is an excellent guitar but just was lacking in the pickup department even though they are custom shop HW pickups. I have to admit that one of the writeups mentioned how there were so few reviews. That is a tragedy! What I do is make up a completely new loaded pickguard (Mojo can do it for you also) and use a complete '62 shield and run a buss wire on top of all the pots and a buss ground wire running from the 5-way switch and you can get most all noise eliminated. Then put in some vintage capacitors and voila' you have an awesome sounding Strat. Oh, also use the vintage taper pots that Mojo sells and the CRL switch that Mojo sells also. Just waiting for a brown tortoise shell pickguard to mount another set of Rene's pickups into a Strat I call "Surfy". I started playing in 1965 and still love guitars!
Excellent
by Peter M
I have a custom shop Strat that I call "Pinky" which just didn't sound right and was under the weather. Good Strat's should not have a lot of extraneous tones/sounds when played. Also, the pickups shouldn't be harsh. I have the '58 quiet coils and the '67's on a couple of other guitars and they are great. So, I decided to try the Martinez pickups and boy what a miraculous recovery! Pinky is all better and ready to rock and roll! Thanks guys...Peter