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I know there is strat and tele version and a ‘cool’ and ‘vintage’ version of the dual rail design.
What are you hoping to learn?
All of the other visually similar models are not strictly Hot Rails.
Duckbuckers are the same idea but with adjustable polepiece screws.
The JB Junior is a high output li'l humbucker. The Little '59 attempts to sound like a vintage PAF humbucker.
The Custom Shop Pearly Gates for Stratocaster does a far better job. The Red Devil model is a production version of the CSPG4S. These benefit from using alnico bar magnets.
The SLSD-1 Li'l Screamin' Demon is probably the best of the ceramic magnet bunch.
Kent Armstrong do a tape version.
The earlier Rails have a conventional baseplate. It is far easier to enlarge the holes for the height adjustment screws. The downside is that tape wrap does little to protect the copper coils of the pickup from impact damage.
Although, it is actually very good as the middle pickup in a HSH guitar where the middle by itself isn't ever an option... when combined with the other pickups it sucks out the mids of the humbuckers so effectively that you get a really good (if not quite perfectly accurate, if you're a Strat purist) 'quacky' Strat in-between sound. PRS used it in the older version of the Swamp Ash Special exactly for that reason. Remarkably, it's actually better with the *un*split bridge pickup than the split neck one, which is what the stock switching does.
Another 'attempt' which would have been better not made...
The Tele bridge one isn't too bad, but the Strat ones are awful - and not even remotely like a full-size '59.
Or use smaller screws - the small black ones usually used for humbucker surrounds will fit.
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