Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Ratrod on November 08, 2006, 04:33:07 PM
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Here she is, my new Gretsch 6128T-TVP Power Jet. It's mostly stock except for the bridge and dice knobs.
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whoah, totally ghetto guitar! very nice touch with the dice :D
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It's beautiful, but the controls only go up to six :(
I hope you have many happy hours with it.
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Nice one Ratty mate 8)
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Oh so cool...
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It's beautiful, but the controls only go up to six :(
didn't you hear?? 6 is the new 11
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Love that sh!t man!
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Beautiful guitar there Ratty.
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Now that is a totally sweet looking guitar! ;)
Nice one Ratty!
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awesome - i like her. what do the switches do?
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:D Looks good Ratty !!
Are you going to swap P/U`s ? if so what ones are you looking at puting in ?
:D 8)
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I DIG !!!!!!
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Thanks for the cool replies, everyone.
The controls are quite simple once you get used to them. One of the switches is the pickup selector, the other one is a tone switch. The dice knobs are volume controls for each pickup and the knob in the lower horn is a master volume.
The pickups are TV Jones Powertrons. Great quality pickups. Just like BKP's they push out the notes, you don't have to drag them out. Great sparkling clean tone and better at the heavy stuff than you might think. It's hard to further compare them to BKP's because these pickups are so different from normal single coils, humbuckers and P90's.
The quality of this guitar is top notch. Completely flawless.
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Are you going to swap P/U`s ? if so what ones are you looking at puting in ?
It'd be a shame to get rid of those TV Jones pickups, they're very much part of the "look". Rewinds maybe? But they probably don't need it.
Gretsch guitars are beautiful things. Not my cup of tea playing-wise, but if my ship ever comes in I'll buy a few just to look at.
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Cool. Benny like.
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Are you going to swap P/U`s ? if so what ones are you looking at puting in ?
It'd be a shame to get rid of those TV Jones pickups, they're very much part of the "look". Rewinds maybe? But they probably don't need it.
For now I don't think they need a rewind. If at some point I hear something in the sound of these pickups that I don't like, I'll have them rewound.
The guitar sounds exactly the way I imagined it would.
BTW, I took off the dice and put the stock chrome knobs back on. The dice looked too bulky and not quite right on the guitar.
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Before I heard of BKPs I'd considered getting some of TV Jones' standard humbucker sized pickups, just for something different.
I think it might be cool to put a TV Classic in the neck position of a Tele.
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I think it might be cool to put a TV Classic in the neck position of a Tele.
Ohhhhhhhhh ... sounds veery tasty :)
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I've heard a guy playing a custom Tele with TV Classics. Still sounded like a Tele but with way more twang and a bit more growl.
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Glad you like the Tele idea, guys! :D I think I'm going to go for it.
Must admit I've never seen a Gretsch-style pickup "in the flesh" - would it screw directly onto the body like a standard Tele neck pickup? My Tele's already routed for a neck humbucker so I wouldn't need to mod it.
Didn't TV Jones used to have DC resistance and other specs on his website? I can't seem to find them now. They're pretty low-output though aren't they, wouldn't overpower a Tele bridge pickup? I might even dust off my old Joe Barden bridge pup and try that.
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very nice ratty....
Its good to see people breaking the usual mould of mainstream guitar buying.
If it werent for the fact that they are prohibitivly expensive in OZ I'd be buying them instead of strats
once again, nice one :wink:
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Glad you like the Tele idea, guys! :D I think I'm going to go for it.
Must admit I've never seen a Gretsch-style pickup "in the flesh" - would it screw directly onto the body like a standard Tele neck pickup? My Tele's already routed for a neck humbucker so I wouldn't need to mod it.
Didn't TV Jones used to have DC resistance and other specs on his website? I can't seem to find them now. They're pretty low-output though aren't they, wouldn't overpower a Tele bridge pickup? I might even dust off my old Joe Barden bridge pup and try that.
Filtertrons are usually screwed directly on the body. However you can get a normal, Gibson style, mounted option. They call it the English mount. Filtertrons are roughly the size of mini humbuckers. So you'll need a custom pickguard. Standard bridge position Filtertrons have about 4.5K output, mine's about 8K. But don't let that fool you, they sound almost twice as loud.
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Thanks for the info, Ratrod.
Project on hold for the moment, because I took my Tele apart today and found that some ar$ehole at Fender has completely bolloxed up the neck fitting. I can't imagine why, but the holes through the neck heel have all been drilled wonky, so a couple of the holes in the neck are oversized/crooked to compensate. The screws almost fell out!
bar-stewards! I've owned quite a few US Fenders and this has never happened before! :evil: :evil:
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Woah that is class! I've been eyeing up semi acoustics for a while now and that is a beauty! I'd love to have a go on one and dip that Bigsby with loads of reverb on!! 8)
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Be carefull Johnny. These things are just as addictive as BKP's :D