Pearly Gates Hss Strat

The original custom pearly gates pickups were wound for the famous 59 les paul standard that defined the raw rebellious sound of texas blues rock.

Pearly gates hss strat.

The jb is definitely in another ball park from a normal strat bridge pickup or even a pearly gates. I did some research and google searching and came to realise it was a lone star strat. It is a p a f. The pearly gates is rather different than the pearly gates plus that is on various fender instruments including the lone star stratt fat strat big apple strat and some showmaster guitars.

On the other hand i have a pearly gates in a couple guitars and it is a great sounding pickup and like i mentioned the lonestar is to me at least a great sounding strat. Soldered the pearly gates in the humbucker mode until i can pick up a mini micro toggle switch and resolder to acheive the best of both sounds single coil or humbucker mode. Have an ssl 1 in the neck. What i thought was a standard strad.

With a unique tonal variation that provides more midrange than typical humbuckers from that time. I have a jb jr. The pearly gates neck captures all the mojo of the original neck pickup from billy gibbons 1959 les paul. Essentially a variation on the patent applied for sound seymour duncan s pearly gates sound sweet but is slightly rude with great sustain and a bright top that make harmonics jump out of the guitar.

This installation took a total of 30 minutes. Rated 3 5 5 pearly gates moved the ssl 5 from bridge position to the middle position and installed the pearly gates into the bridge position. In a sss strat that is super great sounding. Our country fried pearly gates humbucker pickups transform any les paul style guitar into a classic rock outlaw.