Your first memory of BKPs

[noodleplugerine]

I found the forum before I knew of the pickups - I was just googling something guitar related, and it must have been pretty unique, since the first post was the BKP forum... I later started posting, seemed quite a cool place, and ever since I've been here lol :p

Still yet to buy some BKPs, but I've played loads of them, know about most of them, and plan on getting them in every guitar when I can bloody afford it...

[indysmith]

I joined up when I was looking for replacement pickups for my Ibanez. Saw adverts in Guitarist magazine, and read their rave reviews and decided to take a look.
I still only have the Nailbomb. I plan to get a Mule/MQ set as soon as possible; but on my current budget there's just absolutely no way of justifying £200 on guitar pickups. Still waiting for the student prices to be brought in ;)

[Will]

Hmm, actually, it was a friend telling me Indy had a BKP :P then he sent me the MM clip

[AndyR]

I came across BKP a few years ago when I was on the Rory Gallagher forum. One of the players on there was saying how he'd just got some Irish Tours, and another said yeah, BKPs are great.

I guess that all guitarists on the forum piled straight over to BKP home to see what all the fuss was about. I loved the product pages, the descriptions etc. I didn't come near the forum then (might not even have existed at that stage). I was obviously impressed, I added the BKP site to my favourites, but I really couldn't justify the expense in my beat up old Squier (which wasn't playable at the time) when I was almost exclusively using Variax guitars.

Then last year I got my newer strat. I warned my wife that it would probably mean excessive outlay on pickups when she got it for me :D

Some time last November I started reading these forums - it has to be said that the forum, and this bunch of people, is a magnificent marketing tool for BKP, and a superb resource for the rest of us. One of the reasons I bit the bullet was because of how friendly this place is and the "love" that these pickups seem to spread :lol:

I ordered ITs and Riff Raffs just after the new year, and my first post on here was because I'd installed them the day before and I was so stunned/impressed I felt I had to "give something back". I really didn't think I'd still be posting on here 6 month's time (nor did I think I'd have bought another four guitars and three more sets of BKPs... :roll:)

[MDV]

I think my first awarness of BKs is just from a mag advert, back in about maybe 2002 or 3 or 4 or something. I dont remember exactly. I know I was still at uni though.

My first experience: warpig/ITs in my jackson. The flood gates then openned (and those same pickups are still in there after about 4 years, which is, well, odd for me).

[Ratrod]

I was working on my Mockingbird at the time. I found a new neck for it, tuners and stuff. I also wanted a pickup swap. I  ordered a DiMarzio Super Distortion for it 'cause that's what the original Mocks had. The pickup wasn't available so I cancelled the order and started surfing the web for something else.

Somehow (fate, divine intervention?) I stumbled across BKP and saw a pic of the Warpig. It was more than twice the cost of the DiMarzio but I knew it was THE pickup for that guitar. I had to have it!

When I had the pickup installed this cheapo Chinese Mockingbird blew away my Gibson Les Paul loaded with EMG's.

[dave_mc]

nothing too exciting here, i think i heard about them on the net.

[gwEm]

nothing too exciting here, i think i heard about them on the net.

come on man, you need to spin the yarn!

you were working as a spy against the russians in the 1980s. on one of your missions you infiltrated a musical spy ring of some kind. one of the members was tim. later, after the break up of the soviet union you took the time to look up your old 'adversary', who turned out to be a double agent himself. he let you in on a new secret - the great tone of the custom pickups hes been winding since he left MI5.

[SG Thrasher]

 :lol: On the smarties today gwEm?

[indysmith]

Since they brought the blue ones back he's been bouncing off the walls...

[Scotty477]

musical spy ring 

I likes the sound of that one  :D

[Doctor X]

First I heard of BKP was back in 2004 when my friend told me about the Warpigs review in Total Guitar.  Neither of us are Sabbath fans and weren't aware it was the name of a song, we just thought it was a cool name for a pickup, and the review was extremely positive.  A couple of months later when I was thinking of upgrading my guitar I checked out the website (pre-forum days), emailed Tim and got myself a set of Mules  :D

[FernandoDuarte]

Warpigs. Neither of us weren't aware it was the name of a song

:o

[Stevepage]

I read reviews about them in a magazine, the warpig to be exact. So without ever trying one out, I bought one for my Washburn WG587V I had at the time. It vastly improved the tone and made my thin sounding JCM900 sound monstrous.

[FernandoDuarte]

Mr Eric Hellstyle talked on about BKP in some Orkut's comunnity, saying it was better than SD, made by hand, etc... So, I came to look at it... When I found the Nailbomb and RY clips by Tim and others from forum-mates I decided to give it a try! Their are here, waiting for the finished guitar to be installed, A4 Mule set