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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Elliot on February 08, 2006, 09:18:44 PM

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Elliot on February 08, 2006, 09:18:44 PM

Any chance of an early Iommi voiced Mississippi Queen - that would be such a cool thing to stick in a SG.  You could call it the Evil Woman!

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: PhilKing on February 09, 2006, 12:52:07 AM

It would be the Mississippi Hog :lol:   I have a Pig-90 which is the old Iommi tone, I would think that they can put that into an MQ case.  Perhaps it would be the Evil Woman  8)

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: carlaz on February 09, 2006, 12:21:34 PM

Ooo, fun! :)  Some other name ideas: The "Hand of Doom"?  "The Wizard"!

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: _tom_ on February 09, 2006, 04:04:00 PM

Howabout the Iron Man, or the NIB. As phil says though, I always thought the Pig 90 was the Iommi style pickup

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Ratrod on February 09, 2006, 04:08:08 PM

I vote for Iron Man.

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: carlaz on February 09, 2006, 04:08:57 PM

Mmm, yes, the "Iron Man" would be a good name!  :twisted:

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Post by: genocidal tendencies on February 09, 2006, 05:19:52 PM

That would be sweet actually. Although, if it was called iron man it would have to have a fitting cover - maybe like the nailbomb ones. Damn. Now I want one. And an SG to put it in.

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: carlaz on February 09, 2006, 05:29:44 PM

Hmm, yes, maybe I should modify my fantasy of an SG with a Warpig set to a Warpig bridge/Iron Man neck? :)

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: genocidal tendencies on February 09, 2006, 05:53:45 PM

No, you shouldn't. You should modify it to two SGs, one with a set of warpigs and one with a set of  these iron men. It wouldn't be much of a fantasy if it only included one warpig, would it?

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: ztevie on February 09, 2006, 05:57:27 PM

I'd like to have a guitar with a WarMan/IronPig set... :roll:

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: gwEm on February 09, 2006, 06:37:17 PM

'iron man' is quite a blatant name though isn't it ;) i like 'evil woman' - much more subtle ;)

i wonder also if a humbucker sized pig90 would be a possibility. maybe its my confused delirum, but i think i remember reading that bkp-92 isn't possible in a humbucker size..

EDIT 1:
well, i just read this so ;)

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2541

EDIT 2:
and then i just read this...

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2527&highlight=

hmmm, seems like conflicting posts from tim, or??

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Elliot on February 09, 2006, 06:46:00 PM

Even if a P92 can't fit in a MQ case - could a MQ be voiced to be early Iommi sounding?

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Post by: _tom_ on February 09, 2006, 07:29:33 PM

Bah Iron Man is blatently the best name for an Iommi inspired pickup  8) With a distressed cover it'd be killer!

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Elliot on February 09, 2006, 08:09:39 PM

And a huge black celtic cross as a graffic!


Everybody now:
dah - dah -da-da-dah

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: carlaz on February 10, 2006, 07:39:37 AM

Quote from: genocidal tendencies

No, you shouldn't. You should modify it to two SGs, one with a set of warpigs and one with a set of  these iron men. It wouldn't be much of a fantasy if it only included one warpig, would it?

You're right!  But hey, why stop there?  My fantasy should step on up to a brace of 3-pickup SGs loaded with a whole herd of 'Pigs! :)

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: PhilKing on February 10, 2006, 12:41:03 PM

Quote from: _tom_

Bah Iron Man is blatently the best name for an Iommi inspired pickup  8) With a distressed cover it'd be killer!

Warpig is from Paranoid, so lets pick an earlier name because later he was using the John Birch with humbuckers - albeit thin ones with lots of screw polepieces!  Hence Evil Woman!  Though NIB or Wizard are cool too.

I have a guitar with a Warpig bridge and MQ neck.  It is a great combination.  However I am going to get a baritone Iommi with Pig-90 and P-91 pickups!  But I think it will be the summer before I get it made.

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Muttley on February 10, 2006, 01:24:26 PM

Booted Fairies?

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: _tom_ on February 10, 2006, 02:15:59 PM

hahaha yeah, or The Fairy  :twisted: The celtic cross across a distressed cover would look so cool, especially in the Iommi sig sg. I feel major gas coming along again  :lol:

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: gwEm on February 10, 2006, 02:38:32 PM

tom ;)

this celtic cross should be upside down of course... :)

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Post by: Steve-Mr Pig 2U on February 10, 2006, 09:36:21 PM

Quote from: gwEm

'iron man' is quite a blatant name though isn't it ;) i like 'evil woman' - much more subtle ;)

i wonder also if a humbucker sized pig90 would be a possibility. maybe its my confused delirum, but i think i remember reading that bkp-92 isn't possible in a humbucker size..

EDIT 1:
well, i just read this so ;)

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2541

EDIT 2:
and then i just read this...

Tim is refering to using 42 gauge PE, which P90's have always been wound with. To get a higher resistance you must use a thinner gauge wire but you will loose the classic 90 tone.

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2527&highlight=

hmmm, seems like conflicting posts from tim, or??

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: MDV on February 10, 2006, 10:00:01 PM

FYI theres a newish WCR called the Iron Man. Its about 23k alnico 5.....

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Elliot on February 11, 2006, 11:10:01 AM

I have heard rumour that Iommi used his stratocaster for Black Sabbath's first and only changed to the P90 SG when the p'up broke ???

Surely a strat can't sound like that, even with Iommi's dark aura around it :evil:

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: gwEm on February 13, 2006, 10:50:50 AM

steve: thanks for the clarification

elliot: i heard the same rumour and i guess its true, based on interviews with the man himself:

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews05/TonyIommiInterview.htm

http://www.vintageguitar.com/artists/details.asp?ID=109

the last one says 'wicked world' used a strat, and i think the tone is a bit brighter than the rest of the album. i dont know what you think about that? (i'm no stratocaster fan...)

Title: Thought on a new pickup
Post by: Ratrod on February 13, 2006, 11:24:02 AM

Listen closely to Paranoid (the song). It's a Strat.