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Did you fit your bare knuckles in by yourself?

YES! And im damn proud of it!
42 (89.4%)
Nope, let a tech to it to be safe
5 (10.6%)

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38thBeatle

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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2009, 07:47:23 PM »
Mine were done by a tech ( or Steve from the forum when I bought a set of Slowhands off him) but now that I have a soldering iron, I have done it for a neighbour's son though sadly they were not BKPs.
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2009, 09:21:56 PM »
I've fitted Nailbombs to a Strat scratchplate, and Muled 'round the back of a Yam SG.  Nothing too difficult, I followed the Seymour Duncan schematics both times and they were great.  I actually find it quite therapeutic, although I'm with PQ on the old temper thing...

Mark.
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2009, 10:03:56 PM »
This one I was proud of. Though it was neater before I had to rewire it a bit and eventually I abandoned it and went back to traditional wiring (too many damned options). It was fun though.



This one is probably my tidiest non-standard stylie one:



It's very easy to swap out pups with a bit of practice. It only gets complicated when you decide to complicate things...
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2009, 10:15:56 PM »
Quote from: juansolo on January 17, 2009, 10:03:56 PM
This one I was proud of. Though it was neater before I had to rewire it a bit and eventually I abandoned it and went back to traditional wiring (too many damned options). It was fun though.



This one is probably my tidiest non-standard stylie one:



It's very easy to swap out pups with a bit of practice. It only gets complicated when you decide to complicate things...

Nice work !  :)
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2009, 10:31:07 PM »
I've fitted all of mine but the soldering isnt amazing. They still work though :P
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2009, 05:58:36 PM »
Just fitted a Mothers Milk (neck) and a coil split Cold Sweat (bridge) to my cyclone.

I have never done any work like this to a guitar but it wasn't too difficult.
The only issues were that the screws and springs supplied with the pick up were too long so i used the ones from the fender atomic that was already there.

Another issue was that the fender atomic pickup was screwed to the pickguard using three screws, two on one side and one on the other.

This meant that I had to go out and buy a drill to make a small hole inbetween the two existing ones.

But its all done now and WOW what a difference!
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2009, 08:31:59 PM »
I always do my own work - installing pickups, setups etc. I've now just got into BYOC effects - EFFIN' AWESOME!!!  Boutique effects units at behringer prices (almost!)   and you make and paint 'em yourself.

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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2009, 09:09:56 PM »
did it, skipped the tone pot (i have a new one in the mail :)
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Re: Did you fit your Bare knuckles in by yourself?
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2009, 11:03:52 PM »
I'm gutted, I can't solder to save my life. I couldn't even do a single humbucker/volume/jack once :(
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