Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Catalyst77 on September 21, 2007, 10:04:26 PM

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Catalyst77 on September 21, 2007, 10:04:26 PM

Bought a pickup of ebay for a project about a year ago.  Guy told me it was a Riff Raff Bridge.  Stupidly I didn't bother to check it at the time and its taken me ages to actually finish the project (about a year).  Checked the resistance today and its only 5K.

Obviously not a Riff Raff bridge pick up!  Does anyone know if this is likely to be the neck version or something completely different? like a mule or a Stormy Monday?

Cheers

Ben

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: WezV on September 21, 2007, 10:15:54 PM

First off, did  it say 'bare knuckle pickups' on the baseplate - because it should.  the rif raf is 8.3kohms but it might be ofset coils with one 5k and one 3.3k, i really dont know how tim designed it,  MAke sure you are measuring black to green and red and white are connected and taped off

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Catalyst77 on September 22, 2007, 10:02:49 AM

HA hA

i just tied red and white together and tested green to black and it came out as 10.2!

Now i'm even more confused!

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Philly Q on September 22, 2007, 10:29:54 AM

In the BKP colour coding it would normally be green/white connected together, not red/white.

I don't think that's going to make much difference to the DC resistance though.  Maybe it's a Black Dog?

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Catalyst77 on September 22, 2007, 11:34:30 AM

Seems like the closest match - but the base plate doesnt look like its made of nickel its kind of dull gold/brass colour.

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Philly Q on September 22, 2007, 11:37:04 AM

Quote from: Benmartin1977

Seems like the closest match - but the base plate doesnt look like its made of nickel its kind of dull gold/brass colour.

That sounds very wrong indeed.  Does it have an engraved "Bare Knuckle Pickups" logo on the baseplate?

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Catalyst77 on September 22, 2007, 11:43:53 AM

It does have bare knuckle stamped on the back - looks pretty authentic.

Title: Scr**wed on ebay?
Post by: Philly Q on September 22, 2007, 12:21:45 PM

Maybe you could take a pic?  All mine have had nickel-coloured baseplates.