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Customer Comments about the IronGear Hot Slag :-

“Pickup arrived within 24hrs…great service. Having been an avid SG player for many years I always believed in keeping them “stock” (PAFs, 490s,etc). Until one day I noticed a loss of power in my Standards PAF. A quick check revealed that this 40 year old had given up the ghost! So, after searching the net for some re-wound classics, I came across this website. At first I thought the cost was incorrect on the Hot Slag, my initial thought was low output junk. However, after reading the many reviews on this site and others, I thought, what the hell its only pennies. So, the pickup arrived. Within 10 minutes it was sat in all its Zebra glory in my 1966 cherry SG. Having never had open coils, this looks fantastic. The time came to warm up the old JTM45. This pickup has major output, the thing breathes!! With minimal effort it grunts, spits, and screams! You don’t need much gain with this thing. Without doubt, this has the edge over stock gibbo pickups.
Also, when you lower the guitar volume, the tone remains without too much loss of definition. Will definitely be buying more. Now thinking of the same for another guitar, this time coil tapped! If this pickup was £80-£100, I would still buy it! What a find.” - Keith, Worcestershire

“Just had to drop you a quick email to tell you that I love my Hot Slag set and please keep on with the good work. Dropped them into a mahogany Ibanez RG and they really brought this guitar to life, excellent balance with the darker wood. Hotter than the Dimarzio D Activators and EMG HZs and stock Ibanez pups I had in there before. They are hot and really hit the front end of my amps hard, but cleanly. They create searing gain when wide open, but still with clarity and cut. No mud here. Please consider bringing out a 7-string set of these, the tight bottom end would be perfect for that big fat B string; I will be first in the queue ...” - Jean-Pierre, Liverpool

“Just dropping you guys a line to say how beautiful the IRONGEAR HOT SLAG ZEBRA COILS are! I have just installed a pair in my Fender FMT as replacements (Black Canyons were originally fitted) and I have to say, they sound AWESOME; this guitar already sounded great but now it sounds even better. The pickups produce a lovely bite and warm and are very responsive to the dynamics of my playing and built quality is very good. The price of these pickups are amazing too, why bother paying the high prices for Seymour Duncans or Dimarzios? Well done! I highly recommend these to other players.” - S.Johnson, Plymouth, U.K.

"I installed HOT SLAGS in a twin humbucker strat project guitar I put together from parts. I wired them as per my Les Paul, but with a coil tap switch (thanks for the diagram !!). Just played my first gig with the guitar, and for the first time in 11 years, my Les Paul stayed in it's case !! The HOT SLAGS are truly versatile pick-ups. Just using the Crunch Channel on my Marshall TSL, I was able to find tones from cutting strat/tele, through mild and moderate blues crunch, to full blown hard rocking filthy overdrive far in excess of my Les Paul, just using the pick-up selector and volume control on the guitar !! Far more potent and versatile than my Les Paul standard pick-ups. Absolutely cracking value for money, and with better definitiion than more expensive pick-ups I have used in other guitars. Thanks again," - Stuart Powell, Guitar player with Mr Bones (www.mrbones.co.uk)

"I just recieved and fitted one of your Hot Slag pickups to the bridge of my Les Paul and I have to say, for the price its unbelievable! So much tone and definition. Its great to see a UK company offering quality gear at such reasonable prices. I'll definitely be recommending you to friends and I've got my eye on a Rolling Mill to replace my neck pickup in the near future. My hat goes off to you sirs!" - Pete, Shropshire

“The Hot Slag is great, it’s tone can be quite sweet but can become more aggressive as needed. A good balance between vintage sounds and modern needs.” – Matt, Staffordshire.

"I just bought a pair of IronGear Hot Slag zebra pickups and they are just as good as I thought they would be. Perfect, just perfect" - Jimmy, Fife

"(I fitted) the Hot Slag pickup in my Epiphone Les Paul Classic (bridge) and I have to say how impressed I am. The tone is so much clearer than the old stock pickup - very clean and bright when natural and very powerful with good definition when overdriven or distorted. All in all a very well made pickup and I am very happy with it." - Paul, Southend-on-Sea"

"Verdict? (on the IronGear Hot Slag) Absolutely superb. This is exactly the Les Paul bridge sound I was wanting to hear. It's all there - the bark, the sustain, the definition - tight bottom end, lovely growly mids and perfect highs and something else I noticed - when you roll off the volume there's no loss of either definition or presence - and there's a really nice chime to it. Split the coils and it's almost Telecaster territory! Yikes! There's nothing I don't like about this pickup." - Dave Scott, Hartlepool

Well I am truly amazed at the Hot Slag Pickups I received last week from a very friendly and professional dealer in The UK, Keith was a real pleasure to do business with, as i am in the sales department at Musikhaus Thomann in Germany I do see through a lot of internet sales and the whole transaction was perfect in every way. As for the Pickups , I read a little about them as you do on several forums and thought I should try a pair in my Edwards JP relic as i was a little bit dissapointed with the Se***** Dun***s that were stock as the guitar itself is a real nice piece of work, I did as well have a pair if Gi*s** 57´s in.. but at £ 22,00 each for the Hot Slags I was tempted and well you know what!! I'm really glad I did and with the money i get for the 57´s I will definitely be buying another pair to fit in my other Les Paul I own which has AN Other well know brand in there as in my honest opinion the IronGear Humbuckers are Clear, strong, well built and presented, relativley Linear across the frequency range covering all tones my ( or any ) guitar gives out for that matter, all the best in the future and as long as the quality control does´nt slip from the manufacturers a lot of customers will be pleasantly suprised to say the least. I will not be spending any more silly money on BRAND names again." - Iain, Germany

“Thanks for an amazingly fast turnaround, less than 24 hours after order I had the pickups in my hand. I fitted them to my Epiphone Les Paul in place of a couple of Bill Lawrence (L500r and L500xl) pickups and cannot believe how good they are. Incredibly versatile and easily as good as any other manufacturers products that I have tried - SD's and Di******s. As soon as finances permit, I will be ordering more for my Tokai custom edition to replace the stock pickups. I'm really glad that I found out about them, and wish I had been aware of them sooner.” - Gogs, Aberdeen

“Just got my Hot Slag today (good service) and popped her in my 60's strat project and I have to say the hype is true. I have had a LOT of gear and I really know what I am talking about and I just have to say well done. This is every bit as good as the top brand unmentionables out there and it is better than my PAF and just as well made!” – John, Sheffield