Description
The Quarter Pound name isn’t marketing fluff — it’s a literal description of the 1/4″ diameter pole pieces packed into the STL-3 bridge pickup. That extra magnet mass thickens the field around each string, driving output well past a standard single-coil and into hot P-90 or humbucker range, all while keeping the single-coil snap intact.
The trade-off usually made when chasing output is high-end clarity, but the specialized coil winding here sidesteps that. You still get biting treble definition on top of a fattened, aggressive midrange — which is exactly why this pickup shows up on classic rock, jazz-rock fusion, and heavy instrumental rock recordings where players want single-coil articulation with real muscle behind it. Push it into an overdriven amp and it stays focused instead of collapsing into mush.
Paired in this set is the STR-3 neck/rhythm pickup, voiced and matched in output to its bridge counterpart but built with 3/16″ pole pieces and finished with a chrome-plated brass cover — giving you a cohesive neck-to-bridge tonal relationship rather than two pickups fighting each other.
- Complete rhythm (neck) and lead (bridge) pickup set
- STL-3: 1/4″ pole pieces, high output
- STR-3: 3/16″ pole pieces, chrome-plated brass cover
- Suited to well-balanced guitars with either maple or rosewood fingerboards
- Bundled with Ernie Ball Power Hybrid strings
A solid pickup swap deserves fresh strings — this bundle gets you both in one order.
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