Maiming my strat.....or healing it :-)

[FernandoDuarte]

Cheers lads. I am well up for a humbucker. So sorry for the singlecoil fans!

I just realised that Devin Townsend (basically my idol!) recorded his newest album with an american strat with a Seymour duncan pearly gates stuck in the bridge.

Will the holy diver get me into that sorta territory? or nailbomb it>?

i guess it would be outta those two and the miracle man or painkiller.

Pearly Gates is supposed to be the clone of the Billy Gibbons '59 Les Paul pickups... What would lead me to think in vintage-ish pickups... Mules or Crawlers....... People here has way more experience and I will let them speak :lol:

[Philly Q]

I just realised that Devin Townsend (basically my idol!) recorded his newest album with an american strat with a Seymour duncan pearly gates stuck in the bridge.

Will the holy diver get me into that sorta territory? or nailbomb it>?

i guess it would be outta those two and the miracle man or painkiller.

I haven't got any of those BKP models, but I'm sure none of them will sound anything like a Pearly Gates!  The Pearly Gates is a vintage-output pickup with an Alnico II magnet.  The nearest BKP equivalent would probably be a Stormy Monday or PG (as in Peter Green!) Blues. 

Which isn't to say I'm trying to put you off the hotter BKPs you mentioned - I'd guess that Devin Townsend got his tone almost despite the Pearly Gates rather than because of it!  I had an alder, rosewood neck hardtail Strat with a Pearly Gates and I always found it too bright and rather thin in that guitar.

[FernandoDuarte]

My good friend Phill, better explain because PG Blues has the same initial as Pearly Gates and when you contract it to PG is hard to understand :D

[Philly Q]

Good point, Fernando!  :D   Now edited.

[AndyR]

Cheers lads. I am well up for a humbucker. So sorry for the singlecoil fans!

Let me say, on behalf of my fellow single-coil fans - no problem :D

(On your own head be it :lol:)

Have you looked under the scratchplate yet? Are you ready-routed for a humbucker? My Japanese strats aren't/weren't (the old Squier JV I mentioned, and a more recent Fender Japan 62 re-issue).

[Woogie]

Cool, I was considering a HD for my Strat.  And/or a VHII.  :)

Out of those choices, go for the HD, it's so good!

[Philly Q]

Cool, I was considering a HD for my Strat.  And/or a VHII.  :)

Out of those choices, go for the HD, it's so good!

Well, I'm putting together two Strats - so I might end up with both! 

[the guitar repair workshop]

if you buy a HSS scratchplate, and the body is already routed (not a big job anyway) it'll be easy to backtrack if you do become the Troutinator, no problem.

I love the nailbomb personally, big fat organic tone....mmmm :)