So cool!

Respect!!!!! Luxury quality!

I haven't wired them up yet because I am still building the guitar. Anyone who buys these should know the dimensions are slightly different than strat pickups. I attempted to mount them into Stewmac #1569 pickup rings and they do not fit. The pickups are slightly larger than the opening and the holes for the height adjustment screws do not align. I compared the measurements to a normal strat pickup and they are different. I wish I had know that before I bought the mounting rings.

I bought these as an experiment. I hadn't played a guitar with true Lipstick pups in 40yrs. I put a single coil in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge and wired them with a simple 3 way toggle switch. The neck sounds warm and mellow. The middle position brings both pups together in parallel and delivers a nice full round tone. The bridge delivers a surprisingly bright clear tone that I really love. To date I have had 5 different guitarist play the guitar I installed them in and all 5 really love the sound. I will definitely use these again on future builds.

pick up was too long to fit my Ibanez S series,and i didn't want to route the hole bigger,wired it up in the mid position and couldn't get that strat sound with a 5 way switch in the 2nd and 4th position,but it did sound good on it's own,i would return it,but i had to file down the ends to get it to fit,i'll just install it in my frankenstrat,i'm sure it's a great pickup just couldn't get the chimney sound i wanted

So far I've used these pickups in a couple of lap steels (both single coil and humbucker), a baritone guitar (s.c.) and an electric tenor guitar (s.c.). They have sounded excellent in everything! For the money, they are very hard to beat if you like the lipstick look (better made than a more expensive brand I tried which fell apart in my hand...), and I'm looking forward to trying them in a regular 6-string.

Just the sound I was looking for

Installed it on my Hagstrom HJ500. I can get a very nice tone jazz tone with the tone muted or down to 1 or 2. With the tone up to 10 it gets very sparkly and it has good chime.
It sounds really raunchy with gain too for country blues and so on.

I just completed replacing a Carvin AP11 with this GA Lipstick pickup (in a Carvin Bolt) and I am a little disappointed. But maybe I was just expecting too much. The GA is an entirely competent pickup, but is no more "glassy" or "jangly" than the AP11. I have it mounted in the neck position.
It is also slightly lower overall output than the AP11. I might wax poetic that the GA feels a little more "spongey" than the AP11, which felt a little "harder" on the ears.
Keep in mind that I am not complaining, and I am going to leave the GA in place. It just really didn't make much difference in sound that I would call "improvement". It looks really cool though, and that is important. :)
One odd thing: The GA now humbucks with the bridge pickup rather than the middle, as is normal for a Strat. So I don't know if it is GA or Carvin that has the "reverse poled" standard reversed. It still give the expected "out of phase" sounds in the combo positions.
Overall, a good strat pickup, just not a "holy grail" pickup.