I've been wanting to drop a double rail humbucker in the bridge of one of my Strats. I'm looking at the Dimarzio "Tone Zone" , "Fast Track 1", or "Chopper". Also considering the Seymour Duncan "Cool Rail or Hot Rail" and possibly the "JB jr". Other suggestios are welcome.

I am looking for more sustain, and harmonics while being able to split the coil to retain some of that vintage quack in the second position. I like the look of the 57 Hotrod (Niki nice pictures BTW ) but I don't want to lose the "sparkle" of the highs in the traditional single coil in the bridge... is that an impossible request? Anybody have an opinion?

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I'm not slow... and I'm not fast... just sort of halffast...

I have a JB that I can split when needed. It's great, and I've always been partial to SD.

The JB Jr gives me a great, smooth gain sound. If you want a rougher P90/single coil sound but thicker, this is not the pickup. It has the smooth gain of a humbucker and just slightly thinner sounding. On the vintage channel of my rectoverb, it's a "humbucker" all the way, thick tone, love high gain, great sound, very quiet, etc.

Split, it sounds thinner, more single coil like, noticeably lower in volume than as a humbucker, and does not sound like a stock strat bridge pickup, so don't expect that. It's somewhat close, but isn't "there" depending on how good your ear is and how much of a tone freak you are.

This is on my main strat, and I play a lot of different styles on it, and use it for writing and recording a lot of things. It's very versatile and I have no intention of replacing it.

Another note: I don't have the typical on/off coil tap. I have my middle tone knob wired as a volume fader for the inner coil of that JB Jr, so I can dial it down to single coil, up to humbucker, and a lot in between. For a lot of things, it's usually in the middle somewhere.

Thanks Dgonz... I like what you did with your middle tone knob... Did you rewire the last tone knob to all three pups or just leave it on the bottom two pups with nothing on the neck...? one vote for JB jr..

PS:kissed anyone's girlfriend lately?

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I'm not slow... and I'm not fast... just sort of halffast...

Yes, I had the bottom tone knob wired to control all the pickups. I could never understand why Fender would NOT do this already. Also, I get asked about the knobs a lot, since I put the black numbered Fender knobs back on, and I have two volumes and one tone. I thought that would be more fitting since that middle one is actually a volume fader

Yes, I've been kissing my own girlfriend a lot lately. Can't get enough of my exotic foreign import