Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Ian Price on August 03, 2008, 04:44:47 PM
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Mine was when I was selling my Gibson 335. The guy who bought it from me said that he was going to put some Stormy Mondays in it. I really had no idea what he was talking about and actually thought he was a sucker for taking the stock pick ups out. My opinion changed when I got home and looked up Stormy Mondays on the interweb. Although I only have apaches in my strat I have been hooked ever since - and it's not just the product itself, it is everything else (friendly people, good advice and a top quality forum) that comes with it!
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Mine was a shop in Doncaster, mate was buying a bridge h/b they mentioned BKP's pickups we were like not heard of them..and he bought a Bill Laurence instead(yeah now replaced by a BKP)
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My exposure :o to BKP's was only fairly recently.
Last November I decided to change the stock pups on my LP Classic (Gibson 496R/500T) which were too much for the way my musical direction had changed towards more bluesy stuff.
I went to Sound Control in Glasgow and spoke to a guy called Jimmy Egypt who ran a tech/repair shop from within the store. I was set on getting a pair of Seymour Duncans of some kind but Jimmy suggested that I take a look at BKP as a better alternative for what I was after.
The change to BKP's has brought out a better player in me because I want to practise more with the my BKP equipped LP :D
That's pretty much it really, except for the fact that it's 90% certain that I'm going for a set of BKP's in my latest guitar - a Yamaha SG2000.
I just can't decide which ones to go for yet and that issue will be the subject of a thread sometime soon I think.
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The Miracle Man clip...
'nuff said
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Decided to replace the stock PUPs in my Chavel.
Initially I was going to use Seymour Duncans (because everyone does, don't they?), but as the project moved on, I decided to cut my own scratch place, then humbuckers became an option. I'd initially dismissed BKPs as I think that the image that I had in my head was for metal pickups, for whatever reason. But I did some searching around, spoke to Tim, and ordered Nailbombs.
I doubt that I'll order any other make of pickups now.
Mark.
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I was on the metallica forum back in my emg 85/60 combo days and there was this one guy raving on about bkp miracle man and cold sweat pickups.
For ages i just thought he bought something that nobody knows about and he was bigging it up and it wasnt going to be too great.
However when my guitar got stolen and my friend sold me a rocket roll II really cheap i thought hey lets actually look up these bare knuckle pickups.
After listening a few clips and chatting with the people on this forum i had quickly ordered a burnt chrome miracle man bridge.
Which is the only pickup ive ever been happy with how it sounds in every guitar ive owned.
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i don't know exactly, but somehow i was googling round for pickups. i was using dimarzio for hi-gain and i wanted something quite specific for a vintage pickup which wasn't in their range. somehow found myself on this forum. got some riff raffs after hanging out for a bit.
i just checked, and my first post was about the pickup name 'nailbomb'.
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I had joined a new band and as my Strat, fitted at the time with EMG pickups, had issues I decided that I wanted to nreplace them( I'd hated having a battery in the guitar too) I wanted a decent set of traditional Strat pickups (I'd also mislaid the original pickups at the time though I found them subsequently). I was traying out various makes that friends had bought and was going to go down the SD route when I googled and discovered BKP. I sought advice and took the plunge and became a convert. Many of my friends have too after hearing mine. I reckon I have sold quite a few sets through rattling on about them.
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I joined an AC/DC band and bought an Epi SG. I'd seen the advert in Guitarist for "Riff Raff" pickups and decided I'd try a pair out.
They're still in the SG and I've tried a bunch of other BKPs now too :)
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I saw an add in Guitarist for the Crawlers, and being a fan of Geoff Whitehorn's playing, emailled Tim and then ended up calling and going over various options. He was great to talk to, and that first call resulted in me getting an Emerald/Mule combination for my Les Paul and a Crawler with 2 P-90's for my PRS EG4. Since then, as many of you know, I have helped out at the BK stand at LGS and Music Live, and I have most of the pickups that BK makes. For me they are head an shoulders above the other pickups (I just had someone try an Apache set against a US boutique set, and they loved the BK's). I also have to say that they are a great company to deal with, part of the reason I ended up with so many pickups is spending time talking with Tim and listing to his description of the pickups he was working on. The other guys there are very nice too, everyone is committed to making great pickups and they all care about what they do. It might be a strange thing to say, but I think this extra care comes across in the way the pickups sound.
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i have tried a lot of the other pickup makers and been pretty happy untill i decided to try a P-92 in a single pickup juniorish guitar.
... i think i ordered a HSS set the next week
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Back when Tim joined Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer wrote some praising words on their website. Saying how melodic Tim's playing is and how great his pickups sound. That was the first I heard of BKP, but I didn't really care to check them out yet as I was still convinced I wanted dimarzios. Then a mate of mine got some Warpigs and was floored by the quality, so I went and read a bit on the forum, started gathering my pennies and harrassing Tim with emails. That's pretty much it.
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Saw the adverts in Guitarist & thought ' hmmm different" & so I came on here & started annoying people, got my Mothers Milk & fell in love..awwww
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I think I saw the ads and reviews in total guitar all the way back in 2005. I wasnt going to replace my pickups at all but my epiphone started to sound muddy when I got my fender amp so I was looking for replacements. Kept getting recommended the Pearly Gates for the sound I wanted so I looked up the price and it was close to bareknuckle so I checked them out again, emailed Tim a LOT, made loads of posts here and decided on a bridge Mule. Loved the clarity and more "3d sound" it had over the stock Epi pickups so saved for a neck one. Now I have 2 humbucker size p90s in my other guitar as well :)
I'd like to be happy with stock pickups but I find myself wanting more clarity and bottom end definition all the time..
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No interesting story to tell I'm afraid, I think I just saw ads in the guitar mags.
I do remember the article in Guitar Buyer where Tim Slater went to see BKPs being built. And a P-90 shoot-out in Guitar & Bass which was won by a BKP-91 in a cream dog-ear cover. :)
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I found the forum before I knew of the pickups - I was just googling something guitar related, and it must have been pretty unique, since the first post was the BKP forum... I later started posting, seemed quite a cool place, and ever since I've been here lol :p
Still yet to buy some BKPs, but I've played loads of them, know about most of them, and plan on getting them in every guitar when I can bloody afford it...
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I joined up when I was looking for replacement pickups for my Ibanez. Saw adverts in Guitarist magazine, and read their rave reviews and decided to take a look.
I still only have the Nailbomb. I plan to get a Mule/MQ set as soon as possible; but on my current budget there's just absolutely no way of justifying £200 on guitar pickups. Still waiting for the student prices to be brought in ;)
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Hmm, actually, it was a friend telling me Indy had a BKP :P then he sent me the MM clip
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I came across BKP a few years ago when I was on the Rory Gallagher forum. One of the players on there was saying how he'd just got some Irish Tours, and another said yeah, BKPs are great.
I guess that all guitarists on the forum piled straight over to BKP home to see what all the fuss was about. I loved the product pages, the descriptions etc. I didn't come near the forum then (might not even have existed at that stage). I was obviously impressed, I added the BKP site to my favourites, but I really couldn't justify the expense in my beat up old Squier (which wasn't playable at the time) when I was almost exclusively using Variax guitars.
Then last year I got my newer strat. I warned my wife that it would probably mean excessive outlay on pickups when she got it for me :D
Some time last November I started reading these forums - it has to be said that the forum, and this bunch of people, is a magnificent marketing tool for BKP, and a superb resource for the rest of us. One of the reasons I bit the bullet was because of how friendly this place is and the "love" that these pickups seem to spread :lol:
I ordered ITs and Riff Raffs just after the new year, and my first post on here was because I'd installed them the day before and I was so stunned/impressed I felt I had to "give something back". I really didn't think I'd still be posting on here 6 month's time (nor did I think I'd have bought another four guitars and three more sets of BKPs... :roll:)
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I think my first awarness of BKs is just from a mag advert, back in about maybe 2002 or 3 or 4 or something. I dont remember exactly. I know I was still at uni though.
My first experience: warpig/ITs in my jackson. The flood gates then openned (and those same pickups are still in there after about 4 years, which is, well, odd for me).
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I was working on my Mockingbird at the time. I found a new neck for it, tuners and stuff. I also wanted a pickup swap. I ordered a DiMarzio Super Distortion for it 'cause that's what the original Mocks had. The pickup wasn't available so I cancelled the order and started surfing the web for something else.
Somehow (fate, divine intervention?) I stumbled across BKP and saw a pic of the Warpig. It was more than twice the cost of the DiMarzio but I knew it was THE pickup for that guitar. I had to have it!
When I had the pickup installed this cheapo Chinese Mockingbird blew away my Gibson Les Paul loaded with EMG's.
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nothing too exciting here, i think i heard about them on the net.
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nothing too exciting here, i think i heard about them on the net.
come on man, you need to spin the yarn!
you were working as a spy against the russians in the 1980s. on one of your missions you infiltrated a musical spy ring of some kind. one of the members was tim. later, after the break up of the soviet union you took the time to look up your old 'adversary', who turned out to be a double agent himself. he let you in on a new secret - the great tone of the custom pickups hes been winding since he left MI5.
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:lol: On the smarties today gwEm?
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Since they brought the blue ones back he's been bouncing off the walls...
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musical spy ring
I likes the sound of that one :D
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First I heard of BKP was back in 2004 when my friend told me about the Warpigs review in Total Guitar. Neither of us are Sabbath fans and weren't aware it was the name of a song, we just thought it was a cool name for a pickup, and the review was extremely positive. A couple of months later when I was thinking of upgrading my guitar I checked out the website (pre-forum days), emailed Tim and got myself a set of Mules :D
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Warpigs. Neither of us weren't aware it was the name of a song
:o
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I read reviews about them in a magazine, the warpig to be exact. So without ever trying one out, I bought one for my Washburn WG587V I had at the time. It vastly improved the tone and made my thin sounding JCM900 sound monstrous.
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Mr Eric Hellstyle talked on about BKP in some Orkut's comunnity, saying it was better than SD, made by hand, etc... So, I came to look at it... When I found the Nailbomb and RY clips by Tim and others from forum-mates I decided to give it a try! Their are here, waiting for the finished guitar to be installed, A4 Mule set
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come on man, you need to spin the yarn!
you were working as a spy against the russians in the 1980s. on one of your missions you infiltrated a musical spy ring of some kind. one of the members was tim. later, after the break up of the soviet union you took the time to look up your old 'adversary', who turned out to be a double agent himself. he let you in on a new secret - the great tone of the custom pickups hes been winding since he left MI5.
:lol: