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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: raggedstaffman on October 03, 2013, 09:13:48 PM

Title: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: raggedstaffman on October 03, 2013, 09:13:48 PM

Hi all. First post here. I've been suggested BKPs and am wondering which in your experience would be best for my guitar. I have a Korean Epiphone Dot. It's a very nice guitar but I would like a little more bite out of it.

Specifically, I am after that bite that Clapton gets from his famous red 335 on "From the Cradle" and the "Nothing but the Blues" tour that is all over YouTube. I know that's the Crossroads guitar, too, but the amp setup must just give more bite by the 1990s. His 335 is/was a 1964 335, with, I believe Patent No. pickups rather than PAFs. Thus they would have Alnico Vs, right?

I've emailed Tim at BKP who initially recommended Stormy Mondays. I explained the above and he suggests Riff Raffs for that extra bite if I'm after the EC Patent No. tone.

I just wondered, before I "buy and try" whether anyone had any views or experiences that might persuade me away from Riff Raffs, or any other suggestions that might get me a 1964 335, on the cheap!

Very grateful for any help.

Title: Re: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: blue on October 03, 2013, 09:31:57 PM

What Tim said was what I was thinking as i read your post.  Stormy Mondays for Clapton's Beano tone, Riff Raffs for the biting '64 335 tone you're talking about.  to go fully authentic, get them unpotted.

Title: Re: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: littleredguitars2 on October 03, 2013, 10:23:35 PM

Papa Tim knows best

Title: Re: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: Telerocker on October 04, 2013, 12:21:06 AM

Follow Tim. For your next 335 ( :)) you might consider Mules.

Title: Re: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: bandmaster188 on October 04, 2013, 10:40:44 PM

+1 to what telerocker said. Mules absolutely rock in a 335!
I reckon you could cover all that Clapton era with a set.

Title: Re: Best pickup for Clapton 335 From the Cradle tone?
Post by: 38thBeatle on October 05, 2013, 08:27:15 AM

I'll be interested in what you do and how iut turns out. I'd certainly echo what the others have said and go with  Tim's advice if it were me. I have a 339 and thoughts are going around in my addled old head about replacing the stock pickups( which are not bad at all).