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Philly Q

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NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« on: March 18, 2012, 04:55:42 PM »
New Aged Pre-Wired Pickguard (Scratchplate) Day!


This arrived from BKP yesterday morning.

Anyone experiencing a touch of deja vu at this point may remember Nolly's thread about his Custom Shop Relic Strat:

https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=25139.0


In my defence, I'm not a total copycat - it was always going to be aged cream on tortoise, and I was 95% decided on HSS rather than SSS.  But Nolly's thread certainly made me decide on a complete pre-wired setup from BKP (rather than buying separate bits), and also helped with the choice of pickups - I was going back and forth between some combination of Crawler, VHII, Abraxas, Mother's Milks, Irish Tours or Slow Hands.  Crawler was favourite for a long time, but in the end I've gone for.... Abraxas and a pair of Slow Hands.

I wasn't sure about pot values - I was thinking about 250k rather than 500k because I really didn't want the single-coils too bright/harsh, or maybe 500k volume and 250k tones, but Tim suggested 300k for all three pots, which seemed a good compromise.  The cap is a Jensen/BKP 0.022.  Wiring is the "standard" HSS setup with a RW/RP middle pickup and the humbucker split in position 2.

It all looks great - excellent relic work all round and super-neat wiring.   :D

Now I suppose I need to get the thing put together at last....  :|


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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 05:53:08 PM »
Looks superb! Great pickupchoice too.
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 06:06:41 PM »
That looks great Philly! What section of your bed is it going under?  :D
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 06:25:33 PM »
Quote from: Ian Price on March 18, 2012, 06:06:41 PM
That looks great Philly! What section of your bed is it going under?  :D

:D
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2012, 06:27:45 PM »
Very nice. What guitar are they going in?
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 06:52:13 PM »
Quote from: roland_rat on March 18, 2012, 06:27:45 PM
Very nice. What guitar are they going in?

Quote from: Ian Price on March 18, 2012, 06:06:41 PM
That looks great Philly! What section of your bed is it going under?  :D


It's going in the section where I keep the bits for my relic hardtail Strat project  :P :


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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2012, 06:56:47 PM »
Should look rather tasty with that guitar body. What neck you having with it.  Maple or Rosewood?
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2012, 07:00:30 PM »
That looks like a great body Philly - are you going to rout it out yourself?
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2012, 07:05:39 PM »
very nice :)
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2012, 07:35:26 PM »
congrats, i'm sure it'll serve you well. when i got my IT pre wired i was equally impressed with the wiring and by the time i would have sourced all the bits i don't even think it was more expensive.
even if i sold the guitar the IT board would stay with the old one going back in hassle free and untouched.
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2012, 08:06:03 PM »
Quote from: gordiji on March 18, 2012, 07:35:26 PM
when i got my IT pre wired i was equally impressed with the wiring and by the time i would have sourced all the bits i don't even think it was more expensive.

Yeah, if I'd bought the same set of BKP pickups, pots, switch etc, plus a scratchplate and plastic parts (probably from Fatboy Guitars), I reckon the total cost would have been at least as much, maybe more.  It seemed like a no-brainer!  :D


Quote from: Ian Price on March 18, 2012, 07:00:30 PM
That looks like a great body Philly - are you going to rout it out yourself?

Yep.  I have a trusty humbucker routing template I made years ago, should do the trick!  I had to wait to actually get the scratchplate because the position of the humbucker varies quite a lot between different manufacturers.


Quote from: roland_rat on March 18, 2012, 06:56:47 PM
Should look rather tasty with that guitar body. What neck you having with it.  Maple or Rosewood?

It's a Fender neck with a rosewood board.  A certain Mr Venables has done a very nice relic job on it for me.  :) 

I'm going for a mid-'60s pre-CBS look, but not trying to get all the details slavishly correct (for example my neck has a slab board when it should really be veneer to be period-accurate!)
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2012, 08:50:04 PM »
tasty on both fronts mate, congrats!
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2012, 08:55:16 PM »
Quote from: gordiji on March 18, 2012, 07:35:26 PM
congrats, i'm sure it'll serve you well. when i got my IT pre wired i was equally impressed with the wiring and by the time i would have sourced all the bits i don't even think it was more expensive.
even if i sold the guitar the IT board would stay with the old one going back in hassle free and untouched.

agree, those pre-wired guards work out pretty decent value i think
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2012, 08:56:13 PM »
aging looks good philly - i have real faith you might finish a project soon :) you must have all the bits now!
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Re: NAPWP(S)D! {BKP Content}
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2012, 09:13:45 PM »
Quote from: gwEm on March 18, 2012, 08:56:13 PM
aging looks good philly - i have real faith you might finish a project soon :) you must have all the bits now!

I must admit I have, in this case. 

In fact I have a few more bits than I need, because I wasn't happy with some of the "relic" parts I bought - sometimes they're a bit over-done.
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