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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: PhilKing on January 21, 2006, 08:15:50 PM

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: PhilKing on January 21, 2006, 08:15:50 PM

These are the last pics!  Sorry if it seems like an indulgence, but I thought you might all be interested.  From a Bare Knuckle pickup point of view, there are:

Humbuckers
Mule - neck
Black Dog - calibrated set
Emerald - bridge
VHII - calibrated set
Abraxas IV - calibrated set
Warpig - Bridge
Nailbomb - Bridge
Miracle Man - calibrated set
Crawler - bridge
Rebel Yell - calibrated set
Mini-Mule - neck

My Riff Raff and Stormy Monday are waiting to go into my 335.

P-90's
MQ - Tapped bridge
MQ - neck
Pig-90 - bridge
P-90 rewind - neck
P-91 - middle & neck

Strat's
Apache - calibrated set
Irish Tours - calibrated set
Slowhand - middle
Trilogy - middle and neck (neck is with Tim)
60 Rewind - bridge

Tele's
Piledriver - bridge

P-Bass
Hot Vintage 62

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: willo on January 21, 2006, 08:31:47 PM

Hey Phil, nice guitars!

I dread to think how much you pay on insurance for that tidy little lot!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: sambo on January 21, 2006, 08:36:13 PM

wh.....how......wo.....!

where the hell do you keep all of 'em?????

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: froglord on January 21, 2006, 09:20:46 PM

Nice music shop. Whereabouts is it?  :wink:

Seriously, that is an awesome guitar collection. I think you've got just about every base covered there.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: PhilKing on January 21, 2006, 10:02:18 PM

Thanks everyone.  I have been collecting guitars for over 25 years now.  I have had the rosewood strat since 1983.  I am lucky in that I have a room for them all, but they have to be in their cases in cupboards, so this was a great chance to get the all out and play!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: sambo on January 21, 2006, 10:25:13 PM

phil how... HOW do you decide which ones to play and when!!!!!?????

if i had all them id probly just sit there and smile all day and not actually play anything.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: 38thBeatle on January 21, 2006, 11:23:22 PM

That is a fantasrtic collection Phil. I hope you get decent discounts on strings.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: _tom_ on January 22, 2006, 01:36:44 AM

Woah you have WAY too many nice guitars!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: jt on January 22, 2006, 01:55:02 AM

:D Like i said before you must of sold at least 1 Kidney !!!  :P

Do you actually play in a band Phil or are you planning on recording any albums/Demos etc.

 :D  8)

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: froglord on January 22, 2006, 09:32:31 AM

Phil,

What's the purple one? Not a PRS, surely, since it has a Wilkinson trem and a five way blade switch. A custom build, perhaps?

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: sambo on January 22, 2006, 10:35:51 AM

i think it said in the other post the purple one was a warmoth custom build.

wait just realised something.......... phil you said you got all your BK guitars out to play........that would suggest that you've got MORE GUITARS without bk's??!!??!?!?!?!? surely its not possible.....

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: indysmith on January 22, 2006, 10:43:35 AM

You spoiled brat - LOVE your guitars dude and thats a sweet collection. :lol: nicely executed pics aswell. I've actually turned green with envy

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: sambo on January 22, 2006, 10:45:07 AM

lol looks like pics the police have taken at some sort of axe amnesty  :D

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: PhilKing on January 22, 2006, 12:26:37 PM

Quote from: sambo

i think it said in the other post the purple one was a warmoth custom build.

wait just realised something.......... phil you said you got all your BK guitars out to play........that would suggest that you've got MORE GUITARS without bk's??!!??!?!?!?!? surely its not possible.....

I have a few more accoustics and bases...... and yes some more electrics too   :oops:   As I said, I was buying guitars for a long time, I have had one of my Ovations for more than 30 years now.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: PhilKing on January 22, 2006, 01:11:36 PM

Quote from: froglord

Phil,

What's the purple one? Not a PRS, surely, since it has a Wilkinson trem and a five way blade switch. A custom build, perhaps?

Hi, it is a Warmoth with a rosewood neck and ebony fingerboard.  It has a Fishman/Wilkinson bridge and a built in Roland synth pickup kit.  It has the megaswitch 'P' model to give the PRS combinations on a 5 way blade switch.  Mr Smith asked Warmoth if they would change the shape of the body a bit, but this is one of the original ones and fits in a PRS case perfectly!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: rinse_master on January 22, 2006, 02:41:01 PM

Very nice collection there Phil, loads of nice guitars!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: django5 on January 22, 2006, 06:38:48 PM

Very cool. I like the purple PRS hybrid.
My guitar tutor has a large collection too at www.lemon-grass.com
Most interesting is the Esquire that someone was trying to tell him was a step up from a squire. He paid about ten times less than it was worth in cash.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: 5F6-A on January 22, 2006, 06:41:34 PM

Phil,

Congrats for your incredible collection. Enjoy them!!

 :wink:

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: Absolue_Zero on January 22, 2006, 07:00:03 PM

...and if you could only keep one, which would it be?

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: froglord on January 22, 2006, 07:03:10 PM

Quote from: PhilKing

Mr Smith asked Warmoth if they would change the shape of the body a bit ...

So much more polite than bringing the lawyers in!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: monkeywalker on January 22, 2006, 07:46:08 PM

if i had those guitars the wife would have to make room for herself else where!!

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: fronkpies on January 22, 2006, 08:52:50 PM

so....the big question...

whats your favourite??

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: tewboss on January 22, 2006, 09:13:41 PM

wow thats impressive. you have a rock star collection of instruments.

Title: While the wife's away....3
Post by: PhilKing on January 22, 2006, 10:21:19 PM

Quote from: Absolue_Zero

...and if you could only keep one, which would it be?

Quote from: fronkpies

so....the big question...

whats your favourite??

I could never just keep one!!!!  As to my favourite, they are all very different.  In the strats, I love the rosewood, but I have had it for over 20 years.  In the Les Pauls, I think the 53 just wins over the Tobacco Sunburst, and in the PRS's, the Red Standard does it.  In the others, the walnut is very special, and I have a 62 Tele, with original pickups, so that is my favourite there.  Mind you, I am just waiting for Jonathan from Feline to fix up one of my necks.  He is scalloping the fingerboard after the 12th fret, and putting 6000 frets in it, that will go on the flamed redwood, and I am changing the Nailbomb to a different BK humbucker, so that might become my favourite.

In the basses, I have an old Thunderbird IV that sounds great, but a friend (Will Scott), is building me a new semi accoustic 5 string to my design specs and his body shape.  It is semi neck through (it ends at the bridge - not the end of the body) - the pictures here don't really show it too well, and it is still in the rough carving stage.  The back and neck stripes are Purpleheart.  It might well become my favourite!


I guess I am fickle - this is why I am on my way to a second divorce and have a string of failed relationships behind me  - I always like to try new ones  :roll:  :wink:  :P

Title: Re: While the wife's away....3
Post by: keith on January 23, 2006, 04:54:53 PM

Quote from: PhilKing

These are the last pics!  Sorry if it seems like an indulgence, but I thought you might all be interested.  From a Bare Knuckle pickup point of view, there are:

Humbuckers
Mule - neck
Black Dog - calibrated set
Emerald - bridge
VHII - calibrated set
Abraxas IV - calibrated set
Warpig - Bridge
Nailbomb - Bridge
Miracle Man - calibrated set
Crawler - bridge
Rebel Yell - calibrated set
Mini-Mule - neck

My Riff Raff and Stormy Monday are waiting to go into my 335.

P-90's
MQ - Tapped bridge
MQ - neck
Pig-90 - bridge
P-90 rewind - neck
P-91 - middle & neck

Strat's
Apache - calibrated set
Irish Tours - calibrated set
Slowhand - middle
Trilogy - middle and neck (neck is with Tim)
60 Rewind - bridge

Tele's
Piledriver - bridge

P-Bass
Hot Vintage 62

Hey Phil the 53 is stunning and now ive seen it im going to put a set of zebra mules in my standard they look way cool
cheers
keith