Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Peterku on March 29, 2006, 01:21:14 PM

Title: Thank you!
Post by: Peterku on March 29, 2006, 01:21:14 PM

Our dealer called me on Friday that they got their BK shipment and my raw nickel Nailbomb arrived. Although I got home tired to death after 10 PM, I installed it on my Strat right away. Ash body, 1 Meg volume control, no tone pot, blocked steel tremolo, Dunlop 6000's and 11' strings -- it was quite a tight sounding guitar with a little bit rounded highs and deep bass (due to the heavy strings), so I got the NB to benefit from that tightness and give the mids some depth.

GREAT pickup! After the many NB clips here I was afraid that it wouldn't have enough bass and the mids would be overly grainy, but I was sooo wrong. Nailbomb + my Strat = a match made in heaven! :D There's a Dmz VirtuAL 2 Middle in the neck position -- in the middle position of the switch I get a hollow (out-of-phase) sound that's great for funk because it's like having an auto-wah on.

I won't rave about the tone and versatility of the NB because you already know what a great pickup it is. I'll rather make some clips, I don't know yet when I'll have time for that, though.

I just want to thank the BKP staff for transforming my "very nice" Strat into a "killer tone machine". 8) The raw nickel cover looks really "elegant", which I like very much.

Title: Thank you!
Post by: WITH FULL DISTORTION on March 29, 2006, 02:45:13 PM

$%&#ign Hails and Kudos for the choice man
i´ll wait for the soundclips.
ahahahahaahahahahah
i´m still in that dillemma
Q:p

Title: Thank you!
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on March 29, 2006, 04:05:11 PM

Groovy, Peterku.  Glad you're having so much fun!
I played Phil's Nailbomb-loaded Strat last week ... it had a great Racer X thing going on. I'm curious to hear it with your more "mellow" leanings. ;)

Title: Thank you!
Post by: 38thBeatle on March 29, 2006, 07:20:50 PM

Nice one Peterku.

Title: Thank you!
Post by: Peterku on March 30, 2006, 08:13:43 PM

Cheers guys. :) Here's a photo of the guitar:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/Peterku/stratom/zoe_1.jpg)

Title: Thank you!
Post by: _tom_ on March 30, 2006, 08:17:18 PM

The strat looks so perfect like that. Thats pretty much the same setup I want to do with my old copy.