Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: PINKBITS on January 28, 2010, 10:28:08 PM
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I've never owned a Tele and thought is was about time I got myself one. I really love the look of the 52' Hod Rod so am going for this sort of style.
I picked up a nice Warmonth Butterscotch body and an 09 American standard neck and am now onto pickups.
Looking at either an Antiquity Firebird or standard Duncan SM-1 minibucker. For the bridge I'm pretty sure I'll grab a BKP Piledriver.
I like the idea that the Piledriver is a Broadcaster type with serious balls and as I believe I need to use around a 500k volume pot for the Mini bucker the Pile driver should also work well with this.
Here's a couple of pics. The pickguard and pickups in the body are obviously coming out. This is just how I purchased it.
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Will be awesome!!! Congrats!
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Nice one! :D
We all love a Tele round here. Well most of us.
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Looking at either an Antiquity Firebird or standard Duncan SM-1 minibucker.
Lollar
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Looking at either an Antiquity Firebird or standard Duncan SM-1 minibucker.
Lollar
Yeah, I have a Lollar Firebird in a Tele, I like it a lot.
Haven't tried those Duncans for comparison, though. I did once have a Hamer with the SM-2 (harsh) and SM-3 (cool neck pickup!)
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I'll check out the Lollar, thanks very much 8).
Am I correct in thinking a 500k volume pot will be required for a minibucker?
I really dislike dark tone. I much prefer having things on the bright side and taming it.
Thanks for the kind words too lads. The research I did on the Piledriver just seems as though it was made for this project.
I plan on this being a pretty versatile axe, blues and classic rock through to harder rock styles.
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Just checked out the Lollar firebird, pretty expensive but will research a bit further and see what I come up with. Thanks for the heads up either way.
I should also say that I am still considering just grabbing the Piledriver set or maybe a Yardbird neck. I wish there were more clips of these. I'd love to hear a bit of the neck pickup. One of my favourite tones is lead on the neck pickup of a Strat.
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tbh i think pot value is a judgement call with this kinda pickup arrangement - try it and see or take your best guess based on what you already use
edit - why not get a strat neck pickup then???
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I have regular 250K pots on my Tele, but personally I like a dark, warm neck pickup tone.
Having said that, the Lollar mini is pretty bright and clear anyway!
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tbh i think pot value is a judgement call with this kinda pickup arrangement - try it and see or take your best guess based on what you already use
edit - why not get a strat neck pickup then???
Fair enough question. It's more the clarity and chime you get from a single coil pickup that I love. The minibucker seems to be the middle ground between a single coil and a bucker. I'm just after something different from what I already have.
Strat with Fender CS 69's and a Les Paul with Habanero's.