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TheyCallMeVolume

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Blackhawks????
« on: April 18, 2012, 12:30:11 PM »
Hey guys, haven't seen any recent posts about the Blackhawks, anyone have any new info on them? Applications, tones, clips, anything will do!
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Kiichi

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2012, 01:15:09 PM »
Nothing new I have heard of, still the same as in the last months.
We just are at Tims mercy on this one.
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 01:21:34 PM »
Well if you don't mind, as a little refresher, what is it that we know so far? Thanks!
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2012, 01:31:28 PM »
Well they're the first BKP to use blades. So the pickup will have 2 Blades on each coil, adding up to 4 - hense the name "Black Hawk"

Nolly has a set (or at least did do), in one for his guitars. If you do a forum search, there should be links to clips :)
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2012, 09:39:44 PM »
mbchepburn: Hold on, I'm confused. Two blades per coil? Is this actually correct? If that is, then are they like the Kent Armstrong Motherbuckers, with two single-coil-sized humbuckers wired together in one dual-humbucker pickup? Or is this being misled, and are there only two blades, one per coil like a normal blade humbucker?

This would be interesting to see.
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Kiichi

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2012, 09:48:13 PM »
Quote from: SabreStrike on April 18, 2012, 09:39:44 PM
mbchepburn: Hold on, I'm confused. Two blades per coil? Is this actually correct? If that is, then are they like the Kent Armstrong Motherbuckers, with two single-coil-sized humbuckers wired together in one dual-humbucker pickup? Or is this being misled, and are there only two blades, one per coil like a normal blade humbucker?

This would be interesting to see.
As far as I know mbchepburn must have misspoken there.
To my knowledge it will be 2 blades per PU, meaning one per coil (those things like on the Dimarzio Crunchlab for example). The set as a total then will have 4 blades, therefore the name then.
That is if I recall it right, cause I think Tim is still rather opposed to the idea of single coil sized humbuckers and hum canceling single coils.

Soundwise I think it was not that much modern metal as you expect but rather 80s metal.
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2012, 09:51:38 PM »
It was just something I heard someone say in another thread I think. I thought it was only one blade per coil at first, kind of like Dimarzio X2N/Dimebucker. But I'm sure I heard someone one say 4 blades per pickup, hense the name "Blackhawk". I could be wrong though. I think only Nolly & MDV actually know. I know Nolly described it as awesome though.

Was this thread I read - https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=26719.15
« Last Edit: April 18, 2012, 09:55:09 PM by mbchepburn »
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2012, 09:57:32 PM »
I think I was originally right, it is 2 blades per coil. Just found a picture of Periphery's guitarist with his guitar loaded with what I believe are Blackhawks.

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2012, 09:58:45 PM »
They are indeed 4 blades per pickup, meaning two blades on each coil.. i don't know how this is designed, but i don't think they are double humbuckers..   the reason i'm sure of the design is because i've seen them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqb8J6iEHlo
2:33 and 5:39
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Attica!

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2012, 10:01:09 PM »
Yeah when I said 2 blades per coil, I didn't mean like 2 separate coils. I just meant 2 blades on each coil within the humbucker itself.
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Kiichi

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2012, 10:28:25 PM »
Yeah, I just watched that old video again. Had it in mind wrong. Sorry^^

So it is like 2 SC-sized humbuckers taped together after all.
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2012, 11:30:01 PM »
And yet surprisingly, when I asked Tim if he was thinking of using the Black Hawk to create a single coil sized humbucker, he assured me that he had absolutely no plans at all to introduce such a pickup to the range. I've asked him about single coil sized humbuckers a few times but he has never wavered in his response. He just really doesn't seem to like them.
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2012, 02:06:28 AM »
Quote from: mbchepburn on April 18, 2012, 09:51:38 PM
It was just something I heard someone say in another thread I think. I thought it was only one blade per coil at first, kind of like Dimarzio X2N/Dimebucker. But I'm sure I heard someone one say 4 blades per pickup, hense the name "Blackhawk". I could be wrong though. I think only Nolly & MDV actually know. I know Nolly described it as awesome though.

Was this thread I read - https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=26719.15


Last I heard it was 4 blades, two per coil, and not a quad-bucker like the motherbucker.

I know a bit more than that, but the infos likely out of date and I'm not telling anyway :P
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TheyCallMeVolume

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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2012, 03:03:26 AM »
Very cool stuff. Anyone know what kind of tones, and examples of tones, these could be used for?
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Re: Blackhawks????
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2012, 03:10:13 AM »
Quote from: allstar100595 on April 19, 2012, 03:03:26 AM
Very cool stuff. Anyone know what kind of tones, and examples of tones, these could be used for?

Check out the linkI mentioned. There should be a link to Nolly's clip. Or use the search function, you'll find some there
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