The SSV+ might be what you're looking for. I never bonded with the Thornbucker, although many can get it to sounds really good. There was a honky low, mid thing I couldn't get rid of. I've heard the same thing in the Duncan Saturday Night Specials and it may be the Alnico 4 magnets which is common to both.
The SSH+ is really hot -- too much so for me. The SSH is a great pickup however probably too much mids for what you are after. My alder Star got a set of Pariah Destruction 70s, which are the recreation of the Dimarzio Super Distortion. The other possibility is a Duncan Custom.
I had similar experiences, not one of those pickups
I could ever vibe with.
I did patiently adjust each one of them also.
I actually adjust all my guitar pickups to the guitar and to the amps I use the most.
This is as important as biasing an amp &
a legit setup on the guitar with proper saddles/intonation for the style to played,
-coupled with the style/design of the guitar.
Took me years to really figure this out, apply it and dial out the hot mess & bring in the goods.
Those and Bare Knuckles.., although BK has the
dopest pots & caps , particularly their push-pull
pots.
For me it’s Motor City’s all the way.
However, for vintages’ Strat/Tele,
-David Allen & Van Zandt.
Also, if ya can be patient, contact Seymour Duncan and have them custom wind your favorite pickup of theirs, hell yeah!!
Their CS P90 in a bridge single coil for a
Strat is a the bomb, etc.
There was a dude, WB?
About 10 plus years ago who used “67” vintage
wire.
He caught the Cameron Cold and flaked away..
SUPER DOPE pickups.
I have never heard/felt a pickup with such
ease of controlled feedback.
KILLER in my 63 block, 07 Historic 335.
I had his higher wind, the “Greg Wind”
in my old school 07 Historic Lemonburst,
just totally f’n killer.
Damn, that dude had the recipe man.
‘Suuuper sketchy to deal with though…,
he mastered to art of the fake tracking number.
Super rad dude when you got him on the phone though…,or who the hell was he?? LTFOL!!!
-Another one bites Freddie Mercury’s nutz’.