IronGear Blues Engine

All IronGear Classic Pickups are designed and developed in the UK.
IronGear have devoted many hours of research to every element of the Classics series, ensuring the Alnico magnets, wire type, baseplates, bobbins and coil resistances are as close to the essence of the authentic design as possible.
Every pickup in the Classics series is specified to the very highest standards and designed to compete with the most expensive, hand-wound pickups currently available.
So how do they make pickups of such outstanding quality at these prices?
By putting quality and consistency before mythology! IronGear pickups are made outside of the UK in state-of-the-art facilities. Every pickup is put through rigourous quality control procedures to ensure that it complies with IronGear's exacting specifications. Appropriate and careful use is made of automated manufacturing procedures to ensure that costs are minimised and consistencey is kept to an absolute maximum.
You don't have to look very far to find pickups with very similar specifications at 3 times the price of these pickups. But the bottom line is, IronGear Classics represent incredible value for money and sound utterly amazing!

“I put the IronGear Blues Engines into an Epiphone 335 after taking out a set costing three times the price. What these pickups bring is character as before the sound was clean but clinical and did not move me. The sound is far more in keeping with a 335 and that “woody” sound that it is noted for comes through now. I guess all guitarists are looking for a quality sound it is just surprising that paying a lot more for pickups did not get me a better sound.” - Clive, Kent

“Hi. Just a quick thank you, I got a pair of Blues Engine pickups from you recently for a Les Paul I was building. Wired it all up, Plugged it in, Could not believe the sound. Damned thing squeals like a banshee in heat swinging an angry cat, More Balls than an army of Rambo's !!!. Really nice clean tones as well, especially in the middle position. These were my first pair of pickups from you guys. I am so impressed I have since bought 3 more sets, I think that says it all really. Needless to say I will be having more of these.” – Paul, AEolian Guitars, Dublin

I wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for getting the Blues Engine pickup to me so rapidly – it arrived on Monday morning having been ordered late on Friday night! A quick cup of tea and a couple of blobs of solder later it was in – into a really nice Tokai Love Rock. This is a guitar that I swapped the rear pickup for a Bare Knuckle Riff Raff that I already had in a little played guitar a week ago. Anyway, I was really impressed with the Riff Raff – and had planned to stick a “Stormy Monday” into the neck...until I saw the Blues Engine. I am so glad that I didn’t order the Stormy Monday. The Blues Engine is simply stunning. It wasn’t a surprise that it is absolutely perfect for blues, but it also sounds fantastic for the more rocky Gilmour/Floyd stuff that we play – singing like a bird and sustaining forever. I love it – thanks so much and no doubt I will be troubling you again in the near future for more! – Mike H’, Preston

"Hey Guys, noticed the Blues Engine on your site a month or so ago and decided to pounce even though there was no feedback or reviews yet. I've tried the Hot Slag and Alchemist 90, so wondered what an extra £10 would get you… Well, mucho mojo is the answer. I put it in one of those cheap single pickup travel Hofners and WOW! Fantastic dirty, gritty blues, but with complex harmonics - I'm in slide heaven. Love to see a coil tappable version in the future. Congrats on a wonderful pickup." - Andy, Banbury

"Great service/great product and I love the 'Blues Engines' they've brought my Epi Dot to life!...thanx Axetec" - Steve, Edinburgh

“I fitted the Blues Engine in place of the Hot Slag in my Epiphone LP and all I can say is wow! The tone and sound is just superb when played through my RAT Hot Rodded Amp. I am very impressed with the Blues Engine, I like the Slag and that'll be put to use in another guitar, but the Blues Engine has to be the best pickup to sit in the bridge position of a LP I've heard.” – Simon, New Malden

“Predictably superb pickups………..as ever……but the Blues engine is a step further on!” – Tom, Telford

“Well, I woke up this morning & my dog had died, and my lady ran off with the garbage man.... Still, not to worry my Blues Engine neck & bridge pickups have arrived (wow, that's fast) & I've put 'em in the old Gibson, a Challenger 2 from the early 80's. Think Les Paul Junior with a bolt-on maple neck, it's lightweight, it's scruffy but it plays like a dream. Put back together & plugged in, the big question. What do they sound like? These things bark like my old dawg used to but still retain perfect clarity & definition. Very nice indeed. Even though my old dog is dead, my woman has legged it with the garbage man, my house has burned down (forgot to unplug the soldering iron) & being born under a bad sign (on the wrong side of town also), I don't have the blues no more. These pickups are good, very good. I just hope my woman comes back soon (the bin needs emptying).” – Neil Houghton, Bolton