Author Topic: Thought on a new pickup (Read 8316 times)

PhilKing · « **Reply #15 on:** February 10, 2006, 12:41:03 PM »

Quote from: _tom_

Bah Iron Man is blatently the best name for an Iommi inspired pickup 8) With a distressed cover it'd be killer!

Warpig is from Paranoid, so lets pick an earlier name because later he was using the John Birch with humbuckers - albeit thin ones with lots of screw polepieces! Hence Evil Woman! Though NIB or Wizard are cool too.

I have a guitar with a Warpig bridge and MQ neck. It is a great combination. However I am going to get a baritone Iommi with Pig-90 and P-91 pickups! But I think it will be the summer before I get it made.

Muttley · « **Reply #16 on:** February 10, 2006, 01:24:26 PM »

Booted Fairies?

_tom_ · « **Reply #17 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:15:59 PM »

hahaha yeah, or The Fairy :twisted: The celtic cross across a distressed cover would look so cool, especially in the Iommi sig sg. I feel major gas coming along again :lol:

gwEm · « **Reply #18 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:38:32 PM »

tom ;)

this celtic cross should be upside down of course... :)

Steve-Mr Pig 2U · « **Reply #19 on:** February 10, 2006, 09:36:21 PM »

Quote from: gwEm

'iron man' is quite a blatant name though isn't it ;) i like 'evil woman' - much more subtle ;)

i wonder also if a humbucker sized pig90 would be a possibility. maybe its my confused delirum, but i think i remember reading that bkp-92 isn't possible in a humbucker size..

EDIT 1:
well, i just read this so ;)

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2541

EDIT 2:
and then i just read this...

Tim is refering to using 42 gauge PE, which P90's have always been wound with. To get a higher resistance you must use a thinner gauge wire but you will loose the classic 90 tone.

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2527&highlight=

hmmm, seems like conflicting posts from tim, or??

MDV · « **Reply #20 on:** February 10, 2006, 10:00:01 PM »

FYI theres a newish WCR called the Iron Man. Its about 23k alnico 5.....

Elliot · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2006, 11:10:01 AM »

I have heard rumour that Iommi used his stratocaster for Black Sabbath's first and only changed to the P90 SG when the p'up broke ???

Surely a strat can't sound like that, even with Iommi's dark aura around it

gwEm · « **Reply #22 on:** February 13, 2006, 10:50:50 AM »

steve: thanks for the clarification

elliot: i heard the same rumour and i guess its true, based on interviews with the man himself:

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews05/TonyIommiInterview.htm

http://www.vintageguitar.com/artists/details.asp?ID=109

the last one says 'wicked world' used a strat, and i think the tone is a bit brighter than the rest of the album. i dont know what you think about that? (i'm no stratocaster fan...)

Ratrod · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2006, 11:24:02 AM »

Listen closely to Paranoid (the song). It's a Strat.

Author Topic: Thought on a new pickup (Read 8316 times)

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