ripper pickups

I’m working with a luthier on a custom build grabber ripper hybrid bass that can get me close to both worlds sonically. Grabber pickups are single coil and rippers are humbucking. I'm wondering if a Novak t-bird pickup platform might be a good option for us that would afford the best of both...

My youngest son really likes the sound of old Gibson Rippers and Grabbers, but he won't be able to buy one in years, so he was thinking about putting Ripper pickups ir Ripper-sounding pickups in his maple necked Epi Thunderbird IV which feels great to play and sound good acoustically, but...