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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Prawnik on March 05, 2007, 06:08:57 PM

Title: More Strat pickup questions (total vintage)
Post by: Prawnik on March 05, 2007, 06:08:57 PM

Is it possible to order Strat pickups with grey fiber bobbins like used in the late 1960's and the 1970's?

Also, can I get mine with plastic hookup wire, as used after 1968?

Strangely enough, Strats with single-coil pickups are my preferred units for heavy metal.  Is that bad?  Am I going to hell?

Title: More Strat pickup questions (total vintage)
Post by: metal_god on March 05, 2007, 11:54:08 PM

single coils for metal  :roll:  no your not going to hell with single coils the devil wouldnt let you in as you'd give him a headache hehe just joking dude.... email bkp and ask

Title: More Strat pickup questions (total vintage)
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on March 06, 2007, 12:38:08 AM

i think tim uses more recent materials/methods from his pickup research as it produced the same tone but with much less work, but would be able to use the original specs if you asked really really nicely, and complimented his hair :D

Title: More Strat pickup questions (total vintage)
Post by: 38thBeatle on March 06, 2007, 07:25:44 AM

I can't answer about the bobbins or the wire and would suggest referring to BKP themselves. I am not, by any means, a metal player but I have played my 1970's Apache laden Strat through a vintage Marshall plexi and at a very high volume and  it sounded pretty meaty to me.Some of the metal purists here would no doubt argue that it aint metal however.I say do what you feel and use whatever implements produce the sound that you want.

Title: More Strat pickup questions (total vintage)
Post by: JamesHealey on March 06, 2007, 09:19:00 AM

Tim makes some seriously meaty single coils that are well capable of metal tones.. just ask him about the the bobbins he might do it.