Seymour Duncan SH-1 Vintage Blues '59 Model Pickup Set - Black Black

I started out with a Squier Telecaster. For a guy starting out, it was ok. I eventually upgraded the pots and the pickups with SD59 and the Little SD59. That sound is just amazing. It blew me away. So during the pandemic one of the things I wanted to do was to become better at soldering. I put knock-off P-90s in my Les Paul and then changed them back to the original. I decided for fun to get a cheap guitar and make it awesome by upgrading the electronics and pickups. I got a knock-off Es-335 and proceeded. I put a lot of thought into which pickups to put it, but I eventually decided to go with the 59s. I knew them. I knew they'd be good. Let me tell ya, those bad boys blew the room off the sucka. After I put those in, they just growl. I am horrible at straight guitar, but I've found I can play slide pretty good so I can easily get a "Bad to the Bone" sound. It actually sounds better than the original, the sound, not the playing. And the old Muddy Waters and Hound Dog Taylor slide riffs sound so much better. I love these.

Well past the honeymoon phase. It's a great pickup for most styles. I have the '59 loaded in a single hum guitar. They are pretty compressed, which surprised me at first, and there's a certain "in-your-face" quality to them. Very responsive and immediate, but they are indeed buttery and sweet while being VERY capable of rocking out if you raise the height a little. I tend to aim for slightly scoop-y pickups--the '59 is one of them--because they have a certain clarity and polish to their tone. Highly recommended

works great in a prs se guitar. stock pickups (85/15s) were not very good.

I installed the 59 humbucker set in a mohagany body telecaster styled guitar. They improved the tone over the stock pickups. A lot of different tones. Both warm and bright. Better than I expected.

I had the stock pickups replaced in my 6yr old Epiphone Les Paul Standard and I'm so pleased with the sound I get out of these. They are far less muddy than the stock pickups and I really am liking the sound of both pickups singly and together. I wanted just a little more twang/blues feel and sound and I feel like I'm getting that now for sure. I'm still new to all of this and so I wasn't really sure what to replace them with or what would be best. So I used Seymour Duncan's assistant thingie on their website and ultimately chose these. I did have a local luthier do the actual replacing so I can't speak on installing anything myself. However, he did not encounter any issues with the install, either with the pickups themselves or my Epi Les Paul. Very pleased and would definitely recommend.

Put these 59s on an epiphone 2004 Joe Pass and they improved the sound 200% ! Older epis had good woodworking but junky pickups (tons of wax inside). Newer epi's have better pickups IMHO (same model but made better now). Just cause it says blues doesn't mean can't use them for something else.