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Pickups / Re: P90s for a Yamaha Revstar? (MQ? Nantucket?)

« Last post by timmy_b on November 12, 2025, 04:48:54 PM »

Absolutely agree that the Mississippi Queen is an excellent option for a wide range of classic P90 tones. Having said that, the Revstar guitars are an excellent host for almost anything that you wish to throw in there, so certainly something with a bit more bite is going to sit in there just fine without being over-the-top.

The Nantucket and Mississippi Queen bridge pickups are quite close in specs, so I certainly wouldn't say that the Mississippi Queen is missing any bite, but the Nantucket neck certainly has a bit more edge from its Alnico 5 magnets compared to the smoother response of the Mississippi Queen's Alnico 4s

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Pickups / Re: True Grit in a Mahogany Ibanez S770PB

« Last post by rbg on November 10, 2025, 08:29:50 PM »

TrueGrit bridge is a quite bright pickup and would still be bright in mahogany guitar.

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Pickups / True Grit in a Mahogany Ibanez S770PB

« Last post by tommyg on November 10, 2025, 01:56:44 PM »

I tend to like brighter pickups and since this is a Mahogany guitar with rosewood fingerboard, I'm not sure if True grits would work well for that guitar.
Does anyone have experience with that?       Suggestions?

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Pickups / P90s for a Yamaha Revstar? (MQ? Nantucket?)

« Last post by carlaz on November 07, 2025, 12:14:31 AM »

I last bought a set of Bare Knuckle pickups almost 20 years ago  as a set of Crawler humbuckers for my Les Paul -- which I still love. 

I recently picked up a slightly used Yamaha Revstar with its stock P90s, since I'd never had a guitar with P90s and wanted to try one out. (I thought about getting something LP-ish with P90s, but I figured I already had an LP, so the Revstar would be interesting and different without necessarily being too different.) I like the guitar and, to be honest, the pickups seem decent enough, though I can't help thinking that BKPs would be better. 

I'm looking for a relatively classic "'70s-ish" vibe, I think. I like the P90s particularly for how they work in a relatively bright edge-of-break-up/crunch tone that can clean up well but also be smashed with fuzz or Muff. Of course, it's also fun to whack them through a treble booster into a cranked amp and play Sabbath riffs, too. 

The stock Revstar P90s (the specs of which I'm not sure of) don't seem overly hot or bright to me -- they might even be a little more bassy than "classic-type" P90s? Still, my gut feeling is that I could probably not go wrong with a Mississippi Queen set, which might (?) have similar output and would perhaps (?) be a touch brighter, which would probably be OK for me. But perhaps I should also consider a similar but perhaps very slightly more raucous (?) Nantucket set? The Revstar as stock seems relatively smooth, so perhaps the Nantuckets would add some snarl and grit for a more "classic" P90 vibe, in this guitar, at least? Since I've not heard the guitar with other pickups, nor played P90s in another guitar before, it's difficult for me to judge!

But perhaps some here have experience with Revstars and suggestions regarding the BKP P90s? Interested to hear any experiences and ideas. 

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Pickups / Re: Rebel Yell bridge 50mm vs 53mm

« Last post by rbg on November 04, 2025, 06:57:03 PM »

One more thing, is it known if RY neck uses 42awg poly wire or it is 43 poly wire?

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Pickups / Re: Rebel Yell bridge 50mm vs 53mm

« Last post by rbg on November 03, 2025, 04:57:02 AM »

Thank you Eric. It is interesting. I also have two Crawlers that measures almost 1k apart. Two NBs I have measures almost 1k apart, and I actually prefer ~16.9k NB :-)

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Pickups / Re: Rebel Yell bridge 50mm vs 53mm

« Last post by ericsabbath on November 02, 2025, 07:52:44 PM »

my bridge Rebel Yell is 53m and 14.4k, somewhere between yours and your 50mm

it does make sense that a 13.9k pup might sound cleaner and tighter than one that's almost 1k hotter and same specs, but maybe the pole alignment might play some part in this

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Pickups / Re: Another Pickup Suggestion Thread

« Last post by shalev98732 on October 31, 2025, 12:02:25 PM »

Thanks for the reply!

I was almost sure to go with The Mules, but know i am fearing they will be to bright! The Black Dogs/Emeralds i fear they will be to "aggressive", and i really need something that reacts great to volume knob and picking dynamics to switch between overdrive and clean!

emerald isnt really agressive, black dog does have some bark

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Pickups / Rebel Yell bridge 50mm vs 53mm

« Last post by rbg on October 28, 2025, 04:30:26 AM »

So I found something puzzling, maybe people can help me with. I have a quite dark sounding super Strat and I have been enjoying a RY in the bridge. Super nice sound sound, just love it. However that is a 50mm spaced humbucher. The screw/string mismatching was bothering me, but it is absolutely impossible to get a 53mm RY. A couple of weeks ago miracle happened and a used 53mm one showed up on a second hand marker... so I grabbed immediately. It arrived and to my deepest surprise it sounds quite different compare to 50mm version. Not as clean and not as tight. If you know the RY sounds so clean, it feels like you have one if those wiggly frets -- the guitar is like super intonated. So 53mm version is still clean and deep, but not like 50mm. I thought that maybe those used 53mm are not RYs. I opened the pickup and it has RY scratched in the corner of the bobbins under the magnet. It also has SS and 717 scratched. All look like my 50mm RYs. 50mm one measure 6.9kOhm and 7kOhm, where 53mm version is 7.35 and 7.5k. The difference in R would be explained by longer bobbins, I would guess. They have a little bit bigger offset, maybe that is? Or maybe RY was designed and optimized to be a 50mm humbucker. Any ideas, why the sound is different? Or it is just a regular difference between two hand wound pickups? Thank you.

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Pickups / Nomad neck with Silo bridge set — Tele-like tone when split?

« Last post by motis on October 27, 2025, 10:51:26 AM »

Hey everyone,

I’m planning to build a guitar using a Nomad neck and a Silo bridge.
My main styles are fusion, prog metal, and sometimes J-pop, so I’m looking for something that can cover both nice cleans and articulate high-gain tones.

There are two things I’m wondering about:

Middle position tone:
When combining the Nomad neck with the Silo bridge split, can that pairing get anywhere close to a Tele-style tone?
I’ve read that the Nomad neck leans more toward a Strat-like character, and while the Silo splits really well, it’s obviously not a true Tele bridge pickup.
So I’m curious if this combo gives that Tele sparkle and bite, or if I should look at something else for the neck to make the middle position more Tele-like.

Nomad neck performance:
How does the Nomad neck pickup hold up on its own — especially for clean ambient sounds and high-gain settings?
The BKP description mainly talks about the Nomad bridge model, so I’m not sure how the neck compares in terms of clarity and balance.

And one more small question:
For a HSS setup, do you guys think a Nomad / Triptych / Silo combo would be more interesting or versatile than Triptych / Triptych / Silo?

Any suggestions or thoughts would be super helpful.