Hooked on BKP Single-Coils! Hendrix?

[kahawe]

I have got to say, I am really hooked on BKP single-coils and somehow I think in singlecoils, the difference between bad and really outstanding pickups feels even greater and much more day-and-night to me than with humbuckers! A bad humbucker is usually muddy, boring but typically not thin so somehow it gets away with it; while bad singlecoils just sound and feel absolutely terrible, thin and just completely wrong.

So far I have an IT and an MM set and while they can both do those typical Strat tones like Hendrix and SRV, I am starting to wonder (and GAS!) about the PAT Pend Strat Series '63 pickups. (or 59s?)

How are they different from the MMs and ITs and would they nail Hendrix or SRV even more than ITs or MMs? Or in which direction do they go?

[Telerocker]

The Pat Pend 63 will nail Hendrix-tones for sure. They sound close to MM's.

[Marco78]

The pat pend serie differ from MM only for the copper type: Heavy formvar instead plain enamel... If think that the sound is similar. I'd buy a different type of single coil...

[Telerocker]

The pat pend serie differ from MM only for the copper type: Heavy formvar instead plain enamel... If think that the sound is similar. I'd buy a different type of single coil...

Differences are subtle. Blindfolded a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell which is what: Slabboard 59, Mother's Milk or Pat Pend 63.

[Marco78]

Differences are subtle. Blindfolded a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell which is what: Slabboard 59, Mother's Milk or Pat Pend 63.

Yes, I think the same thing!

[kahawe]

Well good thing there are still the apaches then... ;)

[Elliot]

For Hendrix I would say Mother's Milk.

I personally can tell a big difference between MM's and the Pat Pend 63 set.  63s are more middy (but not muddy)