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Looking at full size. I have tried baseplates too, I'm after getting my strat to cover all bases, the band I play in do a lot of various covers and it gets a bit too much to have to change guitars all the time at gigs especially as we run numbers into each other.
Only problem I have with it on mine is that it has a lot more mid than the vintage single coils I have neck and middle, so sometimes it's tricky to get a tone I love with both.
One of my Strats has a JB in the bridge position.....but when it had mid/neck single coils there was a significant volume drop when you switched to the singles....as it was simply way more powerful than those. Now that guitar has a fast track and a chopper along with the JB its great.
I have another Strat that is stock HSS - and it has 2 fat 50's and a Diamondback humbucker in the bridge - this is a much better marriage with the single coils - as its lower output and not as forceful in the mids like the JB is. So while I think a JB is great in the bridge it needs other pups to balance with it to be a good overall combo IMO.
If you want the sounds of a humbucker without cutting up yo' Stratocaster, I recommend this. http://customshop.seymourduncan.com/pearly-gates-for-strat/ I've only tried its Telecaster equivalent. Very Les Paul below the twelfth fret. Runs out of steam a bit towards the dusty end. I blame the screwed-on neck joint.
Another one I tried and liked but even less so was the dimarzio tone zone...very bass'y ...tried the evolution...thin on cleans and light overdrive. Fred sounds ok but has the slightly cocked wah voicing.
Thing is with ALL high output buckers is they sound great distorted and on their own but often don't mix well for cleans with the single coils...and certainly not on their own. Too much grunt ruins a nice clean tone. All you can do is compromise one cleans...or dirty sounds. I don't believe there is a best of both worlds. So we guitarists usually go first for raunchy rawk toanz.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
I've heard it said that a JB works well with 250k pots in a Strat, but you need 500k for the Custom Custom.
I'd like to try the CC, I think I might like it because I find a lot of humbuckers quite harsh-sounding in Strats.