Tone zone blade pickup ?

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Thinking about trying one in a super strat. It’s got a cool rails bridge now but want a more aggressive and hopefully EVH style blade bridge.

These any good ? Open to other suggestions as well.
 
Let me know how that is! Seymour and the team have sent me a few different sets over the years. My favorites lately are the Eric Gales set and the Steve Miller set (as far as Strat sets go!) Bare in mind that those are probably lower output than what you're looking for.

I always hear good things about the cool rails!
 
The cool rails isn’t bad. I feel like the guitar needs something tighter and bouncier for higher gain.

But I need something bright so it at least kinda goes with the other single coils.
 
Meanjoegreene said:
The cool rails isn’t bad. I feel like the guitar needs something tighter and bouncier for higher gain.

But I need something bright so it at least kinda goes with the other single coils.
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I cannot recommend Planet Tone pickups enough. Hand made sets for like $125 in USA. Can't beat it. The tones are incredible. I am not necessarily a David Gilmore fan but I bought their DG set based off the description. Absolutely wonderful and huge sounding. I play everything from jazzy clean to screaming heavy and metal. My strat is an SSS. Bridge sounds huge and clear, especially for a single coil. The individual pickups they sell are really reasonable as well. I'd check them out.
 
In the same guitar, I went from Duncan Classic Stack, to Dimarzio Tone Zone S, and finally settled on Hot Rails


Hot Rails was the only one that sounded to me like a full size high output humbucker. Tone Zone S is much more polite and mellow sounding than the full sized TZ in my opinion

The Tone Zone S is good for sure but wasn't hot or harmonically rich enough for what I was looking for personally
 
Here is the description of that single coil bridge from the Plane Tone site. DgG set. Completely agree!! "The bridge is wound to about 13k, nice and hot but super clear in tone with warmth that is unprecedented. The 43 awg used at the bridge gives it a hot, big yet sparkling clear tone that can only be experienced."
 
For humbucker sized sc’s, the best I’ve played are the ‘80’s Bill Lawrence’s and Schaller’s and both can be had cheap
 
braintheory said:
For humbucker sized sc’s, the best I’ve played are the ‘80’s Bill Lawrence’s and Schaller’s and both can be had cheap
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Which Bill Lawrence? The L-250's or OBL's or...?

Which Schallers are you referring to? I didn't know Schaller had made humbucking sc sized pickups.
 
JohnnyGtar said:
Which Bill Lawrence? The L-250's or OBL's or...?

Which Schallers are you referring to? I didn't know Schaller had made humbucking sc sized pickups.
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L-250’s and L-220’s. Both killer. The OBL’s weren’t as good IME. I also have have some ‘70’s Blade ceramic Protoype Bill Lawrence Strat pickups that are really good. Not quite as hot, maybe closer to being like a sc sized L90, hard to say

Schaller S6’s. Schaller and Bill Lawrence and also made ceramic humbucking Tele sized pickups that are just as good

If guys here actually tried these pickups they’d probably wanna throw their Duncan’s and Dimarzio’s in the trash after lol
 
braintheory said:
L-250’s and L-220’s. Both killer. The OBL’s weren’t as good IME. I also have have some ‘70’s Blade ceramic Protoype Bill Lawrence Strat pickups that are really good. Not quite as hot, maybe closer to being like a sc sized L90, hard to say

Schaller S6’s. Schaller and Bill Lawrence and also made ceramic humbucking Tele sized pickups that are just as good

If guys here actually tried these pickups they’d probably wanna throw their Duncan’s and Dimarzio’s in the trash after lol
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Thanks!
 
braintheory said:
L-250’s and L-220’s. Both killer. The OBL’s weren’t as good IME. I also have have some ‘70’s Blade ceramic Protoype Bill Lawrence Strat pickups that are really good. Not quite as hot, maybe closer to being like a sc sized L90, hard to say

Schaller S6’s. Schaller and Bill Lawrence and also made ceramic humbucking Tele sized pickups that are just as good

If guys here actually tried these pickups they’d probably wanna throw their Duncan’s and Dimarzio’s in the trash after lol
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Schaller made some really cool pickups. I once had a pair of Schaller pickups that were 2 stacked single coil size pickups (each with 4 conductor plus ground wire lead) on a humbucker mounting plate. No exposed polepieces. From the top view it looked 2 EMG singles next to each other.
I flipped them without checking them out. I know. I'm an idiot.

I want some of those.

Godin had Schaller make a variation version of those pickups called the Tetrad. https://reverb.com/item/6232715-godin-schaller-tetrad-pickups

I want some of those, too.

The old Schaller Golden 50 humbuckers are killers.
 
JohnnyGtar said:
Schaller made some really cool pickups. I once had a pair of Schaller pickups that were 2 stacked single coil size pickups (each with 4 conductor plus ground wire lead) on a humbucker mounting plate. No exposed polepieces. From the top view it looked 2 EMG singles next to each other.
I flipped them without checking them out. I know. I'm an idiot.

I want some of those.

Godin had Schaller make a variation version of those pickups called the Tetrad. https://reverb.com/item/6232715-godin-schaller-tetrad-pickups

I want some of those, too.

The old Schaller Golden 50 humbuckers are killers.
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That looks really cool! I’ll have to look for those. If guys here knew how good many of these vintage pickup are (and cheap) Duncan, Dimarzio, BKP, Wagner, Suhr, Anderson, MCP and the other popular ones here would’ve gone out of business a very long time ago lol
 
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