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If you want the Bardens, just pick them up. New or used, whatever your budget can do. Don't be fooled that there's other blade pickups that are similar. None of them sound as pure and single-coil as the Bardens. As far as the "Hi-Fi" sound, just roll down your tone knob and you have all the warmth of the Lawrence's (the only other blade pickups I would consider).
Some responses to previous posts:
1. The pickups on that Peavey do not look like Bardens to me. Joe Barden uses staggered rails on the bridge pickup (no one else does this) so that both E strings see both magnets.
2. The new Bardens are just as great as the originals. If anything, they are more reliable (apparently the old ones were susceptible to poor winding construction that would short or open). I have heard a bunch of old and new Bardens on my teacher's guitars, one of my guitars, and a few guitars in my local shop.
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