Customer Feedback:
Pig Iron
"I put in the Pig Irons this weekend to replace my Lace sensors and combined with my Hot Rails the tone I am now getting is spot on... In all fairness they have far exceeded my expectations and I really did not expect them to be as close to the likes of Texas Specials as they are. For that price they really cannot be beaten and I am absolutely over the moon." – Mark, Ilkeston
“I wanted to improve a cheap Squier Strat I bought to use with a "pub" band (I never owned a Strat and the material really needed one). So I bought a Pig Iron for the bridge as an experiment - at £18.90 it seemed worth the risk. It was the cheapest I could find, and the user feedback and sound clips convinced me. What a revelation!!! Beautiful clean tone, responsive, and almost no noise. So I just had to get the other 2 pickups - I couldn't stand the other Squier pickups - coarse-sounding and noisy. I can now do Marvin, Gilmour, Rea, Greeny, Clapton, Hendrix and the rest (with a little help from a Zoom GFX-4 pedal). This is now my favourite all-purpose guitar after 40 years of playing, and by far the cheapest!!! I recommend IronGear and Axetec to anyone wanting to get more out of any guitar - if in doubt about anything, email Keith who responded immediately with very helpful setup advice. Thanks!” - Mick, South Wales
“Having been very impressed with my recent purchase of Rolling Mills installed in my Love Rock, I thought I’d give the Pig Irons a go in my Mex Std Strat. My other Strat has a SD hot rail in the bridge and a DM FS1 at the neck (I tend to play predominantly in positions 1 & 5 on this guitar) but I wanted this guitar to retain classic Strat aesthetic with but with improved tone. 24hr delivery again…fitted on Friday evening! They are a massive improvement on the stock pickups, they are more powerful but more importantly deliver that Strat tone, smooth, sweet but warm, clear almost bell like in every position. What I have found is that I’m using my pickup selector a lot more as they are so well balanced and the out of phase positions (2 & 4) are wonderful (so buy a set rather than single pickups). I’m especially impressed with the bridge pickup, which IMHO is the hardest to get right with a single coil unit and why I’ve previously gone for a single coil sized humbucker. It’s great, strong warm and smooth really delivers those pinch harmonics, they really sing! Just a little compression/sustain and it more than satisfies my critical ear.” - Stuart, West Yorkshire
“Thank you for the quick delivery of my order, I have fitted the Pickups (Neck & middle Pig Iron and an Alchemist 90) to an Old Sunn Mustang Strat copy (I have replaced the original Bridge Humbucker with the Alchemist) a bit of an unusual setup !! What a difference in sound! I did expect an improvement but the change is remarkable, all the classic Strat sounds are there plus that extra something that P90’s seem to have. The Electric kit was first rate too!! I would no hesitation in recommending your pick ups. By the way the strings are pretty good too!" – John, Hull
“I had already fitted Pig Irons to my Squier Strat (and my Ibanez Blazer. But then I wanted to get a harder-driving edge from the Squier for certain material - the Pigs can't really bite like a good humbucker. I considered fitting a bridge Jailhouse Rail - I could still keep the slanted orientation and tap it for a Strat sound. Only thing was, would I lose a touch of that beautiful Pig Iron sound in tapped mode? Then my lovely practical wife wondered why I couldn't keep the Pig Iron and just add a second pickup. So I went for it - another Pig Iron middle pickup to guarantee proper humbucking. So a little careful cutting and I installed it tight to the bridge pup, fitted backward to allow for the wiring. The staggered poles are actually near enough right even this way round! I added switching to wire it in series to get the bridge humbucking sound, I also took the opportunity to wire some other series combinations - Brian May wires his single coil Burns pups this way, hence his distinctive sounds. Of course, the new pickup could be height-adjusted separately, and I soon found a level that gave me what I wanted to hear from a bridge humbucker. WOWWWWWWW! Now it's several guitars in one! Still got all the vintage Strat sounds I love, the powerful drive sound I wanted, plus excellent May-ish sounds. The only hard part was figuring out the wiring for the extra series combinations without mucking up the Strat sounds - just adding the humbucker would have been easy! To say I'm pleased with the result would be a ridiculous understatement! By the way, the Squier now has more Axetec equipment on it than original - pickups, machine heads, graphite nut, roller trees, fingerplate & screws, pots, hook-up wire, plus amp leads, and OH YES strings! Please keep up the good work, and the prices down!” - Mick, South Wales.
“I wanted to improve a cheap Squier Strat I bought to use with a "pub" band (I never owned a Strat and the material really needed one). So I bought a Pig Iron for the bridge as an experiment - at £18.90 it seemed worth the risk. It was the cheapest I could find, and the user feedback and sound clips convinced me. What a revelation!!! Beautiful clean tone, responsive, and almost no noise. So I just had to get the other 2 pickups - I couldn't stand the other Squier pickups - coarse-sounding and noisy. I can now do Marvin, Gilmour, Rea, Greeny, Clapton, Hendrix and the rest (with a little help from a Zoom GFX-4 pedal). This is now my favourite all-purpose guitar after 40 years of playing, and by far the cheapest!!! I recommend IronGear and Axetec to anyone wanting to get more out of any guitar - if in doubt about anything, email Keith who responded immediately with very helpful setup advice. Thanks!” - Mick, South Wales
“Having been very impressed with my recent purchase of Rolling Mills installed in my Love Rock, I thought I’d give the Pig Irons a go in my Mex Std Strat. My other Strat has a SD hot rail in the bridge and a DM FS1 at the neck (I tend to play predominantly in positions 1 & 5 on this guitar) but I wanted this guitar to retain classic Strat aesthetic with but with improved tone. 24hr delivery again…fitted on Friday evening! They are a massive improvement on the stock pickups, they are more powerful but more importantly deliver that Strat tone, smooth, sweet but warm, clear almost bell like in every position. What I have found is that I’m using my pickup selector a lot more as they are so well balanced and the out of phase positions (2 & 4) are wonderful (so buy a set rather than single pickups). I’m especially impressed with the bridge pickup, which IMHO is the hardest to get right with a single coil unit and why I’ve previously gone for a single coil sized humbucker. It’s great, strong warm and smooth really delivers those pinch harmonics, they really sing! Just a little compression/sustain and it more than satisfies my critical ear.” - Stuart, West Yorkshire
“Thank you for the quick delivery of my order, I have fitted the Pickups (Neck & middle Pig Iron and an Alchemist 90) to an Old Sunn Mustang Strat copy (I have replaced the original Bridge Humbucker with the Alchemist) a bit of an unusual setup !! What a difference in sound! I did expect an improvement but the change is remarkable, all the classic Strat sounds are there plus that extra something that P90’s seem to have. The Electric kit was first rate too!! I would no hesitation in recommending your pick ups. By the way the strings are pretty good too!" – John, Hull
“I had already fitted Pig Irons to my Squier Strat (and my Ibanez Blazer. But then I wanted to get a harder-driving edge from the Squier for certain material - the Pigs can't really bite like a good humbucker. I considered fitting a bridge Jailhouse Rail - I could still keep the slanted orientation and tap it for a Strat sound. Only thing was, would I lose a touch of that beautiful Pig Iron sound in tapped mode? Then my lovely practical wife wondered why I couldn't keep the Pig Iron and just add a second pickup. So I went for it - another Pig Iron middle pickup to guarantee proper humbucking. So a little careful cutting and I installed it tight to the bridge pup, fitted backward to allow for the wiring. The staggered poles are actually near enough right even this way round! I added switching to wire it in series to get the bridge humbucking sound, I also took the opportunity to wire some other series combinations - Brian May wires his single coil Burns pups this way, hence his distinctive sounds. Of course, the new pickup could be height-adjusted separately, and I soon found a level that gave me what I wanted to hear from a bridge humbucker. WOWWWWWWW! Now it's several guitars in one! Still got all the vintage Strat sounds I love, the powerful drive sound I wanted, plus excellent May-ish sounds. The only hard part was figuring out the wiring for the extra series combinations without mucking up the Strat sounds - just adding the humbucker would have been easy! To say I'm pleased with the result would be a ridiculous understatement! By the way, the Squier now has more Axetec equipment on it than original - pickups, machine heads, graphite nut, roller trees, fingerplate & screws, pots, hook-up wire, plus amp leads, and OH YES strings! Please keep up the good work, and the prices down!” - Mick, South Wales.
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