Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Niall on October 12, 2007, 12:10:20 PM
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Hi All
A while since I been round these 'ere parts so hello to all once again. Big hi to Tim and the team too.
So, after a hefty wait (3.5) years I have this week received my Driskill. Tim wound the Nailbombs for these literally years ago and sent them over to Texas. The plan long term was voice another pair of pickups for the guitar once we knew how the Nailbombs sounded in it. I was also really curious about the Bombs so decided they should go in initially. Being a mahogany top, semi-hollow guitar I thought there might be a little too much mud or dark tone for me personally...
...not a word of it!! The Bombs sound fantastic with the gained piled on as expected....heavy, brutal yet very defined and articulate. Reminds me a lot of some Sepultura and Disturbed tones, great stuff. But the clean is where the big surprise was for me...... extremely woody and articulate tones, still bold and powerful but without any mud or lack of clarity. I'm reminded a lot of some of the better Lesters and 335s I've played.... REALLY good at clean and mid-crunch.
Anyways, gonna go and play it some more and since it's past midday I consider that a reasonable time to couple it with a cold one. :lol: Just thought I'd resurface on the BKP forum quickly to say hi again and note the arrival of my kicking Nailbomb equipped beasty.
Cheers all!!
N.
(http://dredgethesound.com/Driskill/done.jpg)
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very nice! :o
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Saw this over at Intermusic forums. I am as impressed here as I was there. Beautiful guitar, and great to hear the tone is everything you'd hoped for and more!!
Roo
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beastly looken thang! CLIPS.
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yeah - very nice!!
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Gorgeous!!!
Any info on the guitar itself?
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Corr very tasty!
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That is gorgeous. I'm glad you like your 'bombs they are my choice of pickup and I think they take a lot of beating, (while quite good at issuing a beating :) )
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Love that shape! Very unique, but tasteful. I think the distressed/camo clashes a bit with the finish, I'd have gone with nickel covers myslef. But hey, whatever floats yer boat. It's beautiful.
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But the nickle covers don't have Nailbomb engraved on them. If you're gonna play Nailbombs let people know what damaged their ears! :twisted:
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That's a nice body shape! :)
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Lovely! I was looking at the Driskill site just last week, he has some nice designs and some very cool inlay work - I love the Diablo with little devil head inlays:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/heads20111.jpg)
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Lovely! I was looking at the Driskill site just last week, he has some nice designs and some very cool inlay work - I love the Diablo with little devil head inlays:
(http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p216/phillyq/heads20111.jpg)
Nice stuff- I would love to have a CNC cutter to do that sort of thing - dont think a laser cutter can do that thickness
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that neck is pretty
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had a look at his website, wow! some amazing stuff, those wolf inlays are pretty spectacular! but no clues as to prices. i'm fairly sure i couldn't afford them, but i'd like to know what his guitars cost.
as Jonathon intimates, he seems to have some pretty serious equipment in his workshop.
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Gorgeous!!
Three and half years though? Dear god. 3 months seemed a trial when I was waiting for my legra!
Though....if you dont mind me asking (send it in a PM if you prefer, or indeed if you want to answer at all) what did it cost?
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Hi all, cheers for the comments!
The guitar? It's semi-hollow... cocobola back, neck and fretboard... mahogany top... 24.5" scale, 24 fret neck (inspired by the PRS Santana 3). I'm not mad on the pickup covers either, but the 'bombs only went in initially as I was curious to try some. The plan was to get some other pickups voiced once it was understood how the 'bombs performed in the guitar. But damn, they sound so good!!! I can't see them coming out any time soon. I might take the cover off the neck one this weekend.... but either way it's a cosmetic consideration and I'm having too much fun playing the thing.
The build time? That's an interesting story.... Joe D is bashed on plenty internet forums over it. He was doing great until 3 years or so ago, when I guess he became 'cool' and got a LOT of orders. Being a 1-man show, a very obsessive one at that, production got slower as the order list got longer and he kinda got swamped a bit. He stopped taking orders a while back and hopefully is sorting himself out, getting some of that backlog shifted. He's a really nice guy, but could maybe do with saying NO to people a bit more... and I guess another pair of hands or two around the place would be a big help to him.
I'll see if I can get some clips done at the weekend.... MT2 in front of Bad Cat + this guitar = :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: I tell ya what, I borrowed a mate's Diezel Herbert for a while recently but he has since sold it, I would LOVE to hear this guitar into it!!!
N.