Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: genocidal tendencies on September 26, 2006, 12:55:06 AM
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Can you get them? I've got 800 quid or so just now that I'm not supposed to be spending so I thought I might get a 7 string with custom pigs. Ideally I'd like gold covers but black with gold screws would also be cool. Uncovered they'd look a bit bland, though. Although maybe with gold allen bolts...
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Asked and answered a BUNCH of times, bro. Short answer no. Not BKP, not DiMarzio, not SD, not ANYONE. No one MAKES the damn covers and the cost of the tooling to make your own is astronomical. Unless you know someone in a machine shop that can make them FOR you, you are SOL. Sorry.
Later,
Jeff
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Asked and answered a BUNCH of times, bro.
How would you know? you only just got here :drink: Someone's been doing his research (or just knows these things lol)
Unless you know someone in a machine shop that can make them FOR you, you are SOL.
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hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it? :)
Well that and I've read like 6 month's worth of posts in nearly every forum here before I started posting. I prefer not be a TOTAL noob when I join new forums, you know?
Regs,
Jeff
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We really have to find a manufacturer for those, it would be great, the first ever covered 7 strings pickups :lol: and those would be BKPs
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I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!
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hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it? :)
Yeah, except when it returns like 97 hits. I usually start reading the earliest posts, but end up launching a new thread just before passing into a cataleptic state from which I might never recover...
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hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it? :)
Yeah, except when it returns like 97 hits. I usually start reading the earliest posts, but end up launching a new thread just before passing into a cataleptic state from which I might never recover...
True, but the search engine on this site is a heckuva lot better than some other sites.
Regs,
Jeff
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I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!
Economics. BK sell very few 7 string pickups and, as there are no commercially available 7 string covers, the unit cost of producing them would be huge.
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I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!
Economics. BK sell very few 7 string pickups and, as there are no commercially available 7 string covers, the unit cost of producing them would be huge.
That doesn't explain why pickup companies such as DiMarzio don't do them, DiMarzio sell a lot of 7 string pickups i would have thought.
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is the number 6 something magical? if it goes past it the costs goes to heavens
What's the problem? Doesn't seem very logical :?
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theyd prob have to make new molds and then somebody would have to melt and pour the liquid metal into those molds.... sorta like T2 :D Still though, your right. It doesnt seem like paying somebody to manufactur a few covers would cost that much. And even so it would probably pay off in the long run.
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well let's manufacture them - we've found a niche here on the BKP forum ¬¬ no competition for us!
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EMG does them!
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Actually they (EMG) use their bass pickup housings and just stick the 7 string guts inside. That's how the 707 and 81-7 are done. Also, IIRC, they are black plastic, not metal.
Regs,
Jeff
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but not to buy seperately do they?
i don't think they're removable either
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the EMG 7 strings are a different shape from all the other manufacturers', and they're not really interchangeable with them. awkward buggers :cry:
i too would love to see 7 string covers, if only for a proper warpig 7!! :twisted:
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Correct. Since they are actually bass pickup housings, not proper guitar housings, they require routing out your guitar to fit them... a real downer for most people, particularly if you ever plan on selling the guitar with the original pickups stuck back in them.
Regs,
Jeff
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That sucks. Uncovered with gold screws then, I guess.
On the other hand, if there are enough of us who do want covers it couldn't cost that much to have them cast, could it? And on a larger scale it would be a cool BKP thing, being the first to offer 7 string covers, even at extra cost. Hmm...
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the thing to do would be for some enterprising individual to arrange the manufacture of covers, then sell them to all the pickup companies! oops, just let slip my golden idea...
i think the reason noone's ever bothered is that most 7 string players are metal players, and don't want the traditional nickel or gold covers. as far as i know bareknuckle are the only company that do real funky covers, and they don't sell enough 7 strings to justify manufacturing covers. even if they did, only a certain percentage would be ordered with covers.
edit:(does that paragraph get an award for most instances of the word "cover" in two sentences?)
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I think that about "covers" it. :)
Hardy har har.
Wocka wocka wocka.
Regs,
Jeff