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Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat vs Tone Hatch Rude Blues

Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat pickup
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medium confidence
Tone Hatch Rude Blues pickup
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Tone Hatch Rude Blues
neck Strat single-coil

Compared with the Fender Custom Shop Texas Special Strat, the Tone Hatch Rude Blues has hotter output.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecFender Custom Shop Texas Special StratTone Hatch Rude Blues
DC resistancediffers5.9k6.35k
Inductancediffers2.58 H (measured, 1 reading)2.87 H (compiled)
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoilSingle coilSingle coil
Slotneck Strat single-coilneck Strat single-coil
Traitsvintage outputmoderate output

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Output
85
measured inductance
Magnet
100
both Alnico 5
Coil
100
same coil type

Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

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Tone Hatch Rude Blues

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