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What I will say, is after about 6 or 7 sets of PUs in my strat - I settled on Lollar Dirty blonds. Just th eright mix of vintag'y neck and middle with a hotter but articulate bridge thats not too ice picky.
A vintage spec Stratocaster built using a swamp ash body might benefit from a tad more midrange. Hence, I suggest the Antiquity (1) model, including the Custom/Hot bridge position pickup.
If the guitar has modern fingerboard radius, it might be better served by pickups with equal length rod magnet polepieces.
UK builders such as Alegree, Bare Knuckle, Creamery, Mojo and Oil City Pickups can probably furnish something suitable. I like the latter's Masterwound Route 66 set.
I genuinely don't have a criticism of them, they just work super well. Cleans, crunches, high-gain - works for all.
My set have the overwound bridge pickup (at about 9.8k) and it doesn't sound overpowering at all...but it does get rid of the ice-pick.
but variety is the spice of life, I guess. And I know that other folks love their low output pickups. For years I felt that the internet was telling me that low output was better. But I finally had to admit that I prefer pickups with at least a little punch to them.