Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Twinfan on October 02, 2006, 02:12:31 PM
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Right - if anyone's been following my Mule/MQ thread you'll know that I ordered a 4 conductor Mule and MQ for the bridge positions of my two Gordon Smith guitars. The Mule is fine, but I received a 2 conductor wired MQ. I've contacted the shop that I ordered it from and they're now telling me that it's a single coil and you can't coil split it.
Now I know that, but I was under the impression that you can coil TAP it. I'm pretty sure Sambo has a coil tapped P-90 in his Melody Maker?
Can someone confirm to me if a 4 conductor wired MQ (with coil tap) is available?
Cheers!
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I'm not 100% sure if the MQ can be tapped but I know sam has his BKP90 tapped.
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Available with either stock or RWRP neck, optional coil tap for even more versatility and a choice of solid nickel, chrome or gold covers.
not sure how you actually perform the coil tap though.
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You send a wire out from somewhere in the wind and then back in again. I found an old MQ thread using the search where Tim says he takes the tap out at 1500 turns. That implies to me that you can get a tapped MQ, but maybe Tim's stopped making them?
See this thread:
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=364&start=0
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I don't see why you wouldn't be able to tap it, unless as you say tim just doesn't do it anymore.
I nearly got into an argument with the guys in Music Ground on Denmark Street a while ago about a Gordon Smith with p90's, they were saying that they used the same push-pull pots on all their guitars, but they weren't wired in on the p90 models since you couldn't tap a single coil/p90. I tried to explain that single coil meant you couldn't split but could still tap, but gave up eventually and just went back to trying out the damn thing, which was what I was there for!
Moral- listen to what Tim says, not the guys at your guitar shop.
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Twinfan, my p-90 is most definately tapped...
maybe like dave mentioned... they could have thought tapping was the same as splitting..... pfft dunno.
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^ yeah, that's what I figure. Even on places that should know better (guitar manufacturer's websites etc.), coil tapping and splitting are used pretty much interchangeably, and they aren't the same thing at all...
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Cheers guys - looks like I'll have to drop Tim an email. My guitar shop claimed to have spoken to someone at BKP but I'm not sure who. I'll see what The Master says and let you know...
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^ aye, that's the best thing. I'd take the fact that he talked with someone at BKP with a pinch of salt though- if he doesn't know the difference between a tap and a split, odds are he called it a split when talking with BKP, so he'd get the wrong answer...
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^ aye, that's the best thing. I'd take the fact that he talked with someone at BKP with a pinch of salt though- if he doesn't know the difference between a tap and a split, odds are he called it a split when talking with BKP, so he'd get the wrong answer...
Good point, but I would have thought the BKP dude (or dudette) would have said a coil tap was possible though. Ah well, I've emailed Tim so let's see what he says..
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^ good point. we'd better wait and see, lol.
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Here's Tim's reply:
Apologies, Chris ordered a 4 con MQ which doesn't exist. MQs are a single coil................we can put a tap in which adds an extra conductor
which is known as an MQ plus tap(3 conductor).
kind regards
Tim
So you can have a tapped MQ. I think it's probably my fault for the confusion, as I specified a 4 conductor MQ. Oops :oops: I should have just ordered a coil tapped one...
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^ cool, thanks for letting us know.
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This is all very interesting as I am considering a MQ in the neck of my SG. I have decided on the Warpig for the bridge and a few of the lads from NY are having BKP soiree so we can all hear first hand how some of the other fine pups sound in various geeters. I was thinking about tapping the MQ if I go that way; I now know how to ask. Thanks!
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This is all very interesting as I am considering a MQ in the neck of my SG. I have decided on the Warpig for the bridge and a few of the lads from NY are having BKP soiree so we can all hear first hand how some of the other fine pups sound in various geeters. I was thinking about tapping the MQ if I go that way; I now know how to ask. Thanks!
I have a tapped MQ on one of my guitars - this was the original that Tim made when he told me about the pickup in the first place. I had asked if he could put a coil tap on it, he has never forgiven me!!!
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This is all very interesting as I am considering a MQ in the neck of my SG
I'm trying to think of a guitar to add to my stock that would be good with a MQ neck. I'm thinking a 335-type with a pair of MQs...
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I'm trying to think of a guitar to add to my stock that would be good with a MQ neck. I'm thinking a 335-type with a pair of MQs...
Thats what I've been hankering after for a goodly while. That or a Tele with Country Boys. Can't make up my mind which is more important right now...
*Rahnooo*
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This is all very interesting as I am considering a MQ in the neck of my SG
I'm trying to think of a guitar to add to my stock that would be good with a MQ neck. I'm thinking a 335-type with a pair of MQs...
On the subject of the MQ and P90 types, anyone know which BKP P90 the MQ is based on? I'm guessing BKP-91.
I'll probably get a set for my Pete Townshend SG eventually, but the P90s are the type which attach to the scratchplate rather than the body, so I might need to go for rewinds rather than new pups.
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Yeah, I believe it's the P-91 as I think I read that there's not enough room to put in any overwind? Although I would have thought there was plenty under a humbucker cover...