Identifying a QP look-a-like

[jesaja]

Hello!

Just purchased a strat equipped with two Seymour Duncan SSL-3 "Hot for Strats" and accompanied with a mysterious pickup which somewhat resembles me a Quarter Pound. The pickups are from the same period the guitar was assembled with ESP parts i.e. late 80s.

Can you tell me by the pictures, which pickup this might be? Other manufacturer producing similar pickups I found online was Tom Anderson.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

Korean or Japanese Schecter maybe?

I think they had a fondness for oversized flat polepieces

 

[Jacew]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

I thought of Schecter too.

Steel polepieces with magnet at the bottom? I wonder how that sounds. Could be awesome hard rock pickup...

 

[Adieu]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

I thought of Schecter too.

Steel polepieces with magnet at the bottom? I wonder how that sounds. Could be awesome hard rock pickup...

Aren't all cheap singles built that way? Except usually smaller poles

 

[Jacew]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

Aren't all cheap singles built that way? Except usually smaller poles

Not all these days.

I have pair of Peavey singles built that way. They sound really good under gain so I put them in bridge position of partscaster I built for hot rodded strat sounds.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

Not all these days.

I have pair of Peavey singles built that way. They sound really good under gain so I put them in bridge position of partscaster I built for hot rodded strat sounds.

Cheap is a price category, not a judgment... stuff like Japanese squiers used that too

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

Pickups that I know of that have 1/4 pole pieces are the Schaller S6, Rio Grande Muy Grande, and Schecter Chicken Shacks. All of these have Alnico V rod magnets if I remember correctly. Artec makes a larger polpiece single with a bottom loaded ceramic but that has a cover and staggered pole pieces.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Identifying a QP look-a-like

First thing I thought of was Schecter- I know Ritchie Blackmore uses these (if that's what it is).