Howdy, some of you might remember I made a thread a few weeks ago about needing advice on pickups for my SSH guitar, thread link
hereAnd as the last post in that thread says, I'm here to tell ya'll about it. Figured I should make a new thread rather than ressurect the old, but it's there if you want a looksie.
After a long and tedious process of getting the pickups through customs(no fault of BKP) they arrived yesterday, in all their glory, they looked and felt awesome, truly awesome. As a note, the pickups I'm talking about here are 2 Slow hands Singlecoils and 1 Abraxas Humbucker.
And now, my venture into my first pickup installation was to begin, I thought it would be wise to start with the singlecoils because of the routing, it seemed logical. Screws they came with wouldn't work at all though, as the pickups had to be screwed into the body of the guitar itself so I had to use the wooden screws from the old pickups, and some foam to get them into the right height and to be sturdy enough, it all worked like a charm.
Now it was time for the humbucker to go in, which was a real pain in the arse. First problem arose when I was gonna drop it into the cavity, it wouldn't fit! Turned out, the cavity was specifically cut out to fit the rounded shape of the EMGs screw shin(or whatever you want to call it) And the squared shape of the BKP wouldn't fit it at all. So I was left with two options, ravage the body of the guitar, or shave a millimeter of the edge of the BKPs screw shin. And I sadly had to go with the latter. The operation was a success and I was able to fit the pickup, 2nd problem was again, the screws, and that darn spring that came with it which I btw, had no idea what was for. After quite a while fiddling around with that, and a blistering headache later I got a revelation, what if those screws and the spring is for if your mounting it to a pickguard/pickup ring? (Kinda need clarification on this). Needless to say, I dropped the spring and screws and again went with the wood screws from the old pickup, which sadly ravaged the threads.
However! I was able to fit it, and again, with abit of foam to get it to the right height and to be sturdy enough.
Turned the body over and after 2 minutes of soldering it was all in place.
I was finally ready to test out this bad girl and her new unmentionables. Sadly the only amplifier I have handy at this time that doesn't blow out my windows, or my arse out of the apartment is a Micro Cube, yes I know, shitety. Got a THR10 on its way. (I'm a sucker for low volume amps, due to the forementioned issue of trying to keep myself not evicted, and my general distaste of headphones)
Anyways, I plugged her in and man. Even with that shitety excuse for an amp it just sounds explicit. The Clean sounds are amazing, man what an upgrade. The Abraxas handles gain like a middleweight champ. Just the right amount of gain I usually use. The Slow Hands are not so gain friendly, but that's what I wanted, they handle some, but not a whole lot. They truly are everything they are advertised to be.
The sounds these things are able to come out with completely overshadows the issues I had with installing em.
So once again, I would like to thank the people who helped me out in my earlier thread to figure out what pickups I should get, and I'd like to thank the people of BKP for the amazing work they do.
(On that note, might be back with a few pics of the guitar, it also looks a whole lot better now, and some new thoughts once I get the new amp, sound clips you won't recieve just yet, none wants to hear my shitety playing)
And I'll end this post by saying this:
I will be back for more!
