Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Stranger on May 31, 2010, 07:17:34 AM
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I'm going to have a custom guitar built with C-Pig in the bridge and Painkiller in the neck. I'm currently thinking mahogany body with maple topwood, and a five-piece maple/mahogany neck, but I'm open to other suggestions. It's a guitar built for extreme metal, so I want some deep punch and bass.
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I'm down to mahogany or alder body. I should be happy with maple/mahogany neck and maple topwood. Opinions? This guitar should be played with either an Engl Savage/Fireball or Diezel Herbert, though I'm not 100% decided.
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I'd think in mahogany + wenge neck laminations ^^
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Wouldn't it make more sense to start with the body woods and then look at which pickups you want to fit a particular sound? :?
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Wouldn't it make more sense to start with the body woods and then look at which pickups you want to fit a particular sound? :?
BK C-Pig is commonly accepted as the best pickup for my style of music, and I've really got BKP GAS, haha. If I already had a particular guitar and was thinking about installing a BKP, then I would have to first consider the wood, but since this is going to be a custom I can get any wood I need that best resonates with the pickups I've chosen. Mahogany and alder are both common woods chosen for metal geared guitars, and while I prefer mahogany's tone, someone has told me that the C-Pig has a better sound with alder. Both woods are acceptable to me, I'm just looking for opinions and difference in tones with various woods with the C-Pig.
Does anybody backup this claim that C-Pigs sound better with alder bodies than mahogany?
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Im an ash man
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Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.
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Maple neck-thru, mahogany wings. Got C-pig for my ESP horizon of that construction. Sounds awesome in a demo I heard of it used with the same guitar.
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Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.
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Ok
5pc blot on Mahogany/maple/walnut/mahogany neck with ebony board on a swamp ash body
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5 pc through neck Dark red meranti/maple/walnut/maple/DRM with indian rosewood board, maple/DRM/maple laminate wings and a cocobolo top.
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The woods you selected in the OP should be great. The ceramic Warpig is nowhere near as dark as it's alnico counterpart, so I doubt you will have issues with that.
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Bubinga wings on a 5-piece maple-bubina-wenge-bubinga-maple neck-through with wenge top and ebony fretboard.
Next.
Ok
5pc blot on Mahogany/maple/walnut/mahogany neck with ebony board on a swamp ash body
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5 pc through neck Dark red meranti/maple/walnut/maple/DRM with indian rosewood board, maple/DRM/maple laminate wings and a cocobolo top.
Yup, that's also got to sound awesome!
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Indeed!
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I'd totally change the maple for Wenge... even Padouk...
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Hes good with the maple. Maple/mahogany laminate is great for metal; depth and punch and definition and clarity, plus rigidity, so vibration transmission and stability. Its a winner.