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SaneNoMore

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Who wants to help me pick somethin shiny?
« on: March 13, 2009, 12:03:57 PM »
Greetings everybody!
A while back I posted a topic discussing what pickups i should put in a guitar i am building. Well, i decided on the Nailbombs (with tim's advice).
I was originally planning on painting the guitar solid black (its an ibanez/jackson style super strat) with gold hardware. However, I have encountered a problem with the people who would be supplying my bridge so now i may be stuck with a chrome bridge instead.
I still plan to paint the guitar a solid color, but i can't decide on what kind of pickup covers would look good with a chrome bridge (i'm not too sure i wanna go with a chrome cover because it may look a tad...boring >.<). Plus, the more I thought about it, if I did end up getting a gold bridge (which is still a possibility, just a small one) i'm not too sure if gold covers would be interesting enough :P

So, BKPers, I wanna know what you guys think would look cool, and hopefully it'll give me some inspiration myself!
Pictures are welcome :D!

Fourth Feline

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Re: Who wants to help me pick somethin shiny?
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2009, 10:01:10 PM »
Consider 'Burnt Chrome' ;  as the rainbow flaring effect on an otherwise reflective surface seems to contain a wide spectrum of ( potentailly matching ) colours from blue to goldy / yellow ( including chrome of course). As good chrome seems to last longer than the half life of plutonium, the pickups will keep time / age with the other hardware without being "boring".  A 'one colour scheme size fits all '  philosophy  - but still relatively unique, glossy and eye catching.  There are a couple of pictures floating around the forum in the B.K.P. and 'User' galleries    :)
« Last Edit: March 13, 2009, 10:07:57 PM by Fourth Feline »

dheim

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Re: Who wants to help me pick somethin shiny?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2009, 03:10:58 PM »
give at look at this: http://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=16472.0
did i dare too much? ;)
Mule, MQ, Stockholm, CS, RY, MM, PK, ANB, CNB, AWP, CWP, PiG90...

too many? ;)

SaneNoMore

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Re: Who wants to help me pick somethin shiny?
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2009, 03:24:32 PM »
Very nice Dheim!

Well, turns out my gold bridge is coming, and my gold nailbombs just arrived and they are shiny :D
I'll be sure to put up pictures once im done building this monster! (I'm working on the scratch plate while im typing this!)