I'm patiently waiting for my new Alnico Microcoils.  They'll show up some day.  My next gig is in mid-April, then a few gigs in May, maybe I'll be able to use them on one of these gigs.  The pickups in this strat are the original Microcoils and they sound great, so I'm not miserable, but I do want to hear the Alnico versions.

My wife is a musician (piano) but she'd never heard about guitar pickups until she met me.  Maybe she's heard more than she wants to hear! 

Pickup fever, I think I've got it!!