Any of you familiar with the other hand winders?

[papersoul]

Have any of you tried the others such as Wolfetone...High Order, etc? There are lots out there but it seems Tim has a HUGE selection.

[smarchy]

To be honest when I found BKP I stopped looking.

[steve]

To be honest when I found BKP I stopped looking.

Ditto!

[Steve-Mr Pig 2U]

The world and his wife think they can wind a good pickup,and there are some people doing some good work around............there's also some that are not so hot too in particular those that make out they handwind when they clearly don't.
When you look at the price of a pickup (or anything hand made for that matter) you have to ask yourself, how much does the maker think its worth and how much does he value the time he has put into it......

As for people having experience with other hand winders, check the responses in your last thread.

[Tim]

I've been lucky enough to try most of the other handwound pickups around, some are good, some not so good.My favourite has to be the Tom Holmes set a friend lent me whilst I was doing R&D quite a while back.
Where I've approached things differently is to spec out a complete range as well as truely handwind...........alot claim to but few do these days.
Having said that, a good quality handwound pickup, not just by us, will sound better than a mass produced one everytime.
As for who does what..........we're all trying to do our best at the end of the day.

[jt]

To be honest when I found BKP I stopped looking.

Ditto!

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[Git-art-ist]

To be honest when I found BKP I stopped looking.

Ditto!

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[PhilKing]

There is another thread similar to this that asks what pickups you tried before Bare Knuckle.  I tried many, including some custom wound SD's and Fralins, but like many other people here, once I spoke with Tim and tried the pickups, I was hooked.  I currently have about 15 guitars with Bare Knuckle pickups on them, and I am still getting more sets!  

They work on both new and old guitars, the sound of them opens up the instrument.  I am about to put them on my 335 and I can't wait to hear them - Crossroads here I come  :lol:

[Tellboy]

I currently have about 15 guitars with Bare Knuckle pickups on them, and I am still getting more sets!  

They work on both new and old guitars, the sound of them opens up the instrument.  I am about to put them on my 335 and I can't wait to hear them - Crossroads here I come  :lol:

Phil - I love you!!!

I have been feeling terribly guilty about the 6 guitars I have collected over the years (especially as I have stopped gigging). After reading your post I don't feel so bad!

Lucky ******d you seem to have got some nice guitars - what is your favourite?

[Ratrod]

I'm just jealous.

[PhilKing]

Lucky ******d you seem to have got some nice guitars - what is your favourite?

That's the hardest question in the world - even harder than blonde or brunette (when we all know the answer is 'gullible and available'  :lol: ).

The 57 Strat with Apaches would be one, the 53 LP with Abraxas,  PRS with VHII's.  But then I haven't touched on the P-90 clan (you have to hear a Pig-90  :twisted: ), or my custom LP, which has been my test bed for quite a few BK pickups and is about to get a set of Black Dogs finally (I was going to get them originally - but then was sidetracked when I talked to Tim and found out about all the other HB's).

Tonight I have the PRS EG with Crawler/P-90/P-90 with me.  I am going to a TwilightOdyssey rehearsal (I have my earplugs too!).  I'm taking it to show Ben and Igor the beauty of P-90's (I'll leave the playing up to them - my 50 year old hands can't keep up that pace    ).

I haven't gigged in about 10 years, but I have been collecting these guitars for more than 25 years.  I have been lucky in that I got them before the prices got crazy and also none of mine are pristine collectors pieces, so I don't worry about playing them (though I almost had a heart attack when my 53 LP fell out of the case a month ago - I hadn't checked the latches  :oops: - it now has a couple more scratches).

Oh - one last one I can recommend to any of you who plays bass, get the BK Precision pickup for the 60's Tamla/Rock sounds.  I have a 66 p-bass that was transformed with it.

[Tellboy]

Lucky ******d you seem to have got some nice guitars - what is your favourite?

Tonight I have the PRS EG with Crawler/P-90/P-90 with me.  

I haven't gigged in about 10 years, but I have been collecting these guitars for more than 25 years.  

Sounds like a guitar harem!!......"I'll have the blonde with the big **** tonight..."  

I suppose my favourite is the  1964 SG Standard I got in 1968 (identicle to the one in my avatar). (I'm not that old really - I started playing as an embryo). Unfotunately it had already been around the block a few times when I got it and as I did not have a case it quickly succombed to the broken neck joint which plagued early SGs :( . To make things worse I repaired it myself with glue and a couple of bolts and painted it black as most of the cherry finish had chipped off. I had a Marshall Plexi stack at this time (followed by an Orange Matamp (HJM will be pleased) and at one gig the head fell off and cracked the body across the control section - more glue! Unbelievably it is still playable - I am too embarassed to have it refurbished although I might get Tim to rewind one of the pups which failed. My son always told me the guitar had a distinctive smell - 40 years of sweat and smokey gigs. I've got a '61 Reissue SG (with Riff Raffs) which I'm afraid to breath on in case the neck joint breaks - it's a nice guitar but is not an exact spec of the original.

[The amazing Phil]

Gibson, Seymour Duncan, Fender, they're the one's I know for a fact I've played through. But as with otheres here, I feel as though with BKP I'm pretty much sorted whatever my needs, sonicly speaking that is. The Gibson pickup was really cool, I think it may even have been an old PAF or something, it was on my friend's dad's jazzbox, he's a smoking guitar player and it had a really cool mellow but fat sound.

[jimibt]

tellboy,

don't despair, you should get the sg refurbed it'll actually look good as new (or as old depending on how you want it finished). take a look at this guys stuff, he seems pretty good:

http://www.dm-guitars.co.uk/repairs.htm

[Tellboy]

tellboy,

don't despair, you should get the sg refurbed it'll actually look good as new (or as old depending on how you want it finished). take a look at this guys stuff, he seems pretty good:

http://www.dm-guitars.co.uk/repairs.htm

Thanks jimibt - I was very impressed by his work. I think I'll send some photos of the SG to him. He'll certainly have his work cut out to refurbish it - just wish I'd looked after it more (and kept my Marshall Plexi).