Help Identifying Pickup

[mbnitro]

Hi everyone! I was hoping one of you could identify a pickup for me. I recently purchased a MIM strat and this was in the bridge pickup and despite looking quite a bit online I couldn't find anything about it.



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[Chistopher]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

Pearly Gates Plus bridge model, made for Fender by SD.

 

[mbnitro]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

Pearly Gates Plus bridge model, made for Fender by SD.

So is this a pickup that's included stock on the MIM fender strat? My guitar is a 07-08 MIM as far as I can tell.

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

Yes it's stock.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

I believe it was in the Lonestar Strats at first, and then made its way to a few other models. Like a Pearly Gates with an A5 magnet, more wire turns and correct phase to match Fender's pickups.

 

[mbnitro]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

I believe it was in the Lonestar Strats at first, and then made its way to a few other models. Like a Pearly Gates with an A5 magnet, more wire turns and correct phase to match Fender's pickups.

So did all 07-08 MIM HSS strats have the pearly gates plus? Or was this some kind of deluxe strat or something?

 

[dystrust]

Re: Help Identifying Pickup

So did all 07-08 MIM HSS strats have the pearly gates plus? Or was this some kind of deluxe strat or something?

Your guitar is from the first incarnation of the MIM Lonestar Strat; I don't remember the year range. That particular pickup was only used on a few Fender models, and all of them were 'deluxe' models of a sort. Later MIM Lonestar Strats used a Fender humbucker instead of the PG+.