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BTW... Indentifying a Paf Pro from other DiMarzio humbuckers is quite easy. Both coils have hex screws, however, the pole pieces are bigger than your standard DiMarzio humbucker and are almost always black.

That info might be wrong. During Blaze years, I am almost sure that one of the Raising Hell Strats was converted to a Hot Rails Strat. Also, there is no info that the vintage-white strats were refinished from 3 tone sunburst and blue sunburst, which in fact they were. Kahler Steeler info...

So, if that's the case, Aces was pushed by Rod to be included in the setlist. We know that Bruce also wasn't too happy about it.

Yeah it was. But it was called a hot-rod Strat at first before hitting the market IIRC. I think it was a way to make a cheaper mass produced version of the Richie Sambora Strat (no star inlays, but same pickups).

The CAR Jackson started with Jackson pickups. The polepieces give that away. No DiMarzio or Duncan has those. NPFTD was likely recorded with those. What happened afterwards is a mistery.

I'd bet that the first 2 were recorded with the Jackson. Not sure about the other two as the 3 tone sunburst and blue sunburst Fenders (refinished to cream) entered the picture at that point.

I think the CAR/Burgundy Jackson had Jackson pickups and they were swapped with Duncans at some point. Possibly around the recording of FOTD. That CAR Strat is apparently a hot-rod Strat prototype recieved from Fender and it had a DH-1.

This is a very bad replica... Recess route, it's white instead of vintage white, 22 frets instead of 21, etc... But, the pickups on the originals were DiMarzios. No Duncans were used before the appearance of Jacksons at least, or even the 3 tone and blue sunburst Strats in 1992.

It's an educated guess. Jackson mostly built their own pickups in the late 80s and they were quite popular due to high output at the time. I'm going on the basis of Adrian saying that when he recieved the HSH Jackson, he didn't change a thing and it was perfect. Also, they look like in-house...

The SG's... It seems like Adrian had 2 SG's by the time of World Piece tour. The woodgrains don't match at all and the 2nd one's pickups are much further apart. They probably both had Bigsbies at that point. The first one is the one that H played again between 2005 and 2013 and AMLOAD videos...

I'm pretty sure those are Jackson pickups, same as on Adrian's Jackson. They could've been swapped in the mid-90 when Dave went full Seymour Duncan.

That's an SG Junior with a single P90. Probably wasn't useful for the stage due to hum.

And Adrian's is basically a HSS Charvel with different pickups and headstock. What bothers me the most is that they haven't even released the Janick Strat with current specs.... Black parts and Hot Rails in the middle.

I think those could've been Jackson humbuckers, same as on Adrian's Jackson. The black-humbucker cream Strat had JB-59 for sure. I think the Les Paul Axcess still has this combo, while the HSH Strats have 2 bridge JB's.

Kinda sucks that they put the SD '59 into the black Murray Strat. Going for 2 bridge JB's would be the most accurate or even SH-2 (Jazz/JB neck) would be a better match to Dave's current tone.