Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: lespaul123 on April 13, 2008, 10:31:41 PM
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Hey guys I have a framus dragon. I am playing it through a 212 cab loaded with v30s. I like the tone but it is lacking in the top end and doesnt seems to have a whole lot of harmonic content. I am thinking that my guitar with an emg 81 and 85 in the bridge is just not cutting it. I am looking for a tight bottom plenty ofmids and not harsh top ends with lots shimmer with out losing clarity. I also want it to have some pretty decent gain comparable to an 85. Here are pics of my guitar I made.I has a mahogany back with maple top and maple neck with a ziricote fingerboard. Let me know what you bkp gurus think I am at a loss.
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I was thinking maybe nailbombs. ??[/img]
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O yea I forgot to mention what kinda music I play. I tend to lean towards the heavy end of the music spectrum. I like playing mainly metal hardcore and blues. I like my cleans too so something that wont sound to sterile. I am not really much of a shredder but I like to attempt too. So those tones will important for the neck pick up.
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some very nice guitars there, i really like the non-traditoonal carve and neckl lams on the grey one
i would say a miracle man set will do what you want, but nailbombs should be good too
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o man thank you very much you are the wezv from project guitar right? Its means a whole hell of a lot to me for you to say something like about something I made.
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yeah, thats me.. do i knowy ou from there? - i dont recognise the guitars and they seem like i should have seen them entered in GOTM
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No sir I have been reading on there for years. I never put up anything I made for gotm I am too much of a wuss. But I really like you work.
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ah, you should.. its work thats worth showing off and its probably more likely to win than anything i produce purely because a nice flamed or quilted maple top draws in a lot of votes
and it really annoys some of the trolls when i point out i am not entering to win. Sounds strange but i only enter because people are always happier to be critical that way, rather than the 'wow' polite responses they give in the progress threads. I have won a couple of times but never with the ones i expect to.
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That is a gorgeous guitar :) Love the colour, the flame, and the shape. I wish I could be of some specific help about which BKPs you should choose, but I really have no experience with them (yet!).
I can tell you, though, that my friend has a Framus Dragon, and plays Nailbombs through it, and has never complained about a lack of harmonic content, so I think you're right in suspecting the pickups are the problem instead of the amp :)
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thx man . Hey I think I might give the nailbombs a go. What kinda covers do you guys think would look best? CAMO?
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I think the camo would look good :) I would be tossing up between nickel and camo, but I think the camo would look more interesting, and would work sort of tie the dark wood headstock and the grey body together, if that makes sense
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No I gotch I am gonna give that some thought. I am gonna ask a noob question. What is a calibrated set?
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ooops nevermind I figured it out duh
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That's a beautifully scallopped board right there. Camo would look fantastic.
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That guitar =
FLAWLESS VICTORY
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Great guitar, camo Nailbombs would be perfect.
Mark.
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nice guitar
i have a framus cobra and got the lead channel modded for the framus dragon specs
the holy diver, the miracle man and the painkiller all worked great with the framus
but, as the dragon is dark as hell, i'd choose the painkiller
the miracle man is very much like the tone you described, but it's a very dark and focused pickup
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Yea I definatly dont want something dark. I am trying to brighten this amp up some. Are the painkillers brighter than the nailbombs?
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Are the painkillers brighter than the nailbombs?
The Painkillers are definitely brighter. They have an upper-mid punch, whereas the Nailbombs have more of a lower-mid grind.
The thing is, BKPs have a lot more clarity and definition than anything I've come across, so with either pickup you'd have to really try hard to muddy up the sound, even with a dark sounding amp.
Lovely guitar btw mate :)
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That guitar =
FLAWLESS VICTORY
O god yes, very brilliant choice of color!
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VEEEEEEEEEEEERY NICE guitar! 8) You should be proud and I don't see any reason to you don't show it in that project forum...
The laminate of the neck are which woods? Mahogany and Ziricote??
Taking use of the already exist topic:
I read someone here telling that Nailbomb in a Les Paul was to much dark... is like that?
A change for korina instead of mahogany would work or would need a Ebony board too?
Thank you!
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Thanks guysfor compliments. For the neck laminates I used flamed maple, cherry(believe it or not one of my favorite woods) ziricote and dyed black veneers.