Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: ShotgunInnocence on August 30, 2009, 02:12:49 AM
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Just got my guitar back from having two spankin' new BKPs installed (Holy Diver Bridge wired for series or parallel and a Trilogy neck). Body is a solid 2-piece flamed maple San Dimas style from Musikraft, neck/board is a flamed maple Explorer style from Warmoth. Please pardon the fingerprints.......I had to have it pried out of my hands long enough to take pics..... :lol:
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Very nice with some gorgeous wood on that neck. I bet that guitar is pretty heavy too.
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whoa. i love how all that flame looks. kudos for the maple fretboard too :D
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Fantastic looking guitar, congrats!
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Nice...pretty
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Flame maple. Awesome. Love the finish on it.
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PC probs mean I can't see it right now but congrats anyway.
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Thank ya kindly gents. Haven't had a chance to really crank it up properly yet (for some reason 100 watt Laneys in 3rd floor apartments of a house don't seem to go over too well :twisted:), but first impressions at bedroom volume are that it's gonna be fairly versatile.
The HD in series is bright, yet still warm and tight, and doesn't want to stop sustaining. I think it was a good choice for some additional low end (I like some girth to my sound) and while I was worried about it possibly having a hard mid tone, I'm enjoying the warmth and growl that it's giving me and thankfully not very hard mids at all (at least to my ears). Switch to parallel and you get a nice vintage sounds from it.
The Trilogy is freakin' HUGE!!! Warm and beefy sound while still maintaining a distinct (almost vintage) SC sound. Amazing. Liquid fluidity when playing solos. Hit a chord and almost fell off the stool! LOL! In the middle position with both pups running, it has a somewhat Tele flavor to it.......
I wasn't able to get a really good shot of the flaming in the body but my bud Dave who installed the pups got a couple of good shots before it was all assembled.....
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the flame maple is sweet, silly question but I thought the grain on the neck was suppose go along the length of the neck, not across the width
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the flame maple is sweet, silly question but I thought the grain on the neck was suppose go along the length of the neck, not across the width
good flamed necks are made this way... cheaper maple necks are as you say.
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the flame maple is sweet, silly question but I thought the grain on the neck was suppose go along the length of the neck, not across the width
good flamed necks are made this way... cheaper maple necks are as you say.
looks impressive horizontally though
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Looks really good (I'm always partial to red guitars, though :lol:)
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Looks nice, but I've never seen a BKP single coil with a white base.
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the flame maple is sweet, silly question but I thought the grain on the neck was suppose go along the length of the neck, not across the width
You're right, but flame isn't grain.
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Looks nice, but I've never seen a BKP single coil with a white base.
I was a lil surprised myself when I opened the box. But that's how Tim sent it to me and the tone is spot on so I'm not gonna quibble. :D
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The Trilogy is freakin' HUGE!!! Warm and beefy sound while still maintaining a distinct (almost vintage) SC sound. Amazing. Liquid fluidity when playing solos. Hit a chord and almost fell off the stool!
If I may hikack this thread: how does the trilogy compare to a more "standard" strat pup when played clean ? I'm thinking about replacing my (all-maple) Vox Standard 25's stock DiMarzio FS-1 (which are not bad but...) with BKPs, and while my first choice was slowhands, I'm starting considering trilogy as a possible option too...
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The Trilogy is freakin' HUGE!!! Warm and beefy sound while still maintaining a distinct (almost vintage) SC sound. Amazing. Liquid fluidity when playing solos. Hit a chord and almost fell off the stool!
If I may hikack this thread: how does the trilogy compare to a more "standard" strat pup when played clean ? I'm thinking about replacing my (all-maple) Vox Standard 25's stock DiMarzio FS-1 (which are not bad but...) with BKPs, and while my first choice was slowhands, I'm starting considering trilogy as a possible option too...
I only have a Trilogy in the neck position, so I can't comment from experience about it in other positions and mine also has the zinc base plate option (definitely recommend it). When played clean, it has that characteristic strat "quack" and sparkle. The difference is that the Trilogy has a richer low end and overall fuller sound (not a bad thing with maple IMHO) with no loss of single coil clarity or definition. One other observation.......because mine was calibrated with a Holy Diver, it was wound a bit hotter than a typical neck Trilogy. I'm pretty sure that even wound slightly less hot (in a standard calibrated set) you'd achieve similar results.
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wow, that looks awesome. :)
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I only have a Trilogy in the neck position, so I can't comment from experience about it in other positions and mine also has the zinc base plate option (definitely recommend it). When played clean, it has that characteristic strat "quack" and sparkle. The difference is that the Trilogy has a richer low end and overall fuller sound (not a bad thing with maple IMHO) with no loss of single coil clarity or definition. One other observation.......because mine was calibrated with a Holy Diver, it was wound a bit hotter than a typical neck Trilogy. I'm pretty sure that even wound slightly less hot (in a standard calibrated set) you'd achieve similar results.
Thanks a lot - looks like I'd really should consider trilogy too.
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I only have a Trilogy in the neck position, so I can't comment from experience about it in other positions and mine also has the zinc base plate option (definitely recommend it). When played clean, it has that characteristic strat "quack" and sparkle. The difference is that the Trilogy has a richer low end and overall fuller sound (not a bad thing with maple IMHO) with no loss of single coil clarity or definition. One other observation.......because mine was calibrated with a Holy Diver, it was wound a bit hotter than a typical neck Trilogy. I'm pretty sure that even wound slightly less hot (in a standard calibrated set) you'd achieve similar results.
Thanks a lot - looks like I'd really should consider trilogy too.
I think if you're looking to add some warmth and fullness to the sound of a maple guitar, it's just what the doctor ordered. I'd definitely recommend the the zinc baseplate for the bridge pup too (little extra warmth and fullness).
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How much hotter than typical Trilogy, Shotgun?
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The standard neck Trilogy is wound to 11.2k I believe......mine was wound to 13k. When I wrote to Tim inquiring about the hotter wind, he told me that was standard procedure when calibrating it with a hotter humbucker like the HD. Works for me Tim! :lol:
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Thanks a lot - looks like I'd really should consider trilogy too.
I think if you're looking to add some warmth and fullness to the sound of a maple guitar, it's just what the doctor ordered.
Well, it's actually mounted with the stock DiMarzio FS-1, which are in the same ballpark as the trilogy wrt/ DC resistance (or even slightly hotter - the spec reads 14.23k). Not-bad pups for this axe, tame down the bightness, still preserve kind of a straty character, and (more a side benefit than a requirement) the output level more or less matches the crawlers on my other Vox so I don't have to mess too much with my amp settings when swapping guitar. But I'm pretty confident that well-chosen BKPs would beat them hands down 8). I initially ruled out the contemporary category - not being into shredding / metal stuff at all - but well, I'm not after a pure vintage strat tone neither.
Thanks again for your answer, that should help.
I'd definitely recommend the the zinc baseplate for the bridge pup too (little extra warmth and fullness).
Yeps, that was planned already whatever set I finally choose (that is, for now, slowhands or trilogy).