Versatile "metal" pickup(s)?

[Dave Sloven]

agentorange- Badass video man, you pushed me a step closer to the RY. He wouldent happen to actually be using RY pickups in that video is he?

Definitely not. BKP has only been around for ten years.  That video is from 1990. I'm guessing the bridge pickup was a DiMarzio Super Distortion, which was quite common in BC Rich guitars back then, but it's hard to tell from the clip. Or it might have been a Duncan Distortion.  I know he later went to ESP Vipers with EMGs.  He pretty much always uses the bridge, never the neck.  Several of his guitars have no neck pickup.

Speaking of Di Marzios, heres a Rich Bich with a D Activator.  Not sure what the BKP equivalent is.

Dimarzio D Activator pickups in an import BC Rich Bich. Great pickups

EDIT: I just remembered that this video has a C-Pig in a Rich Bich.

Bare Knuckle Sinner vs Ceramic Warpig vs EMG 707 || Toontrack Metal Guitar Gods Tone

[Sarkasis]

the only negative ive heard of bareknuckles so far is that they can be "Scatter Wound" which means that the winds are not guided and not uniform. so the tone will be different.

Scatterwinding is a technique that makes the tone more complex. If the wind was more uniform, more frequencies would be cancelled out. I don't know that BKPs actually sound much different within the same model, no matter if a pickup is machine or hand wound a person still has to make sure it's been wound a certain number of times.

[Kiichi]

the only negative ive heard of bareknuckles so far is that they can be "Scatter Wound" which means that the winds are not guided and not uniform. so the tone will be different.

Scatterwinding is a technique that makes the tone more complex. If the wind was more uniform, more frequencies would be cancelled out. I don't know that BKPs actually sound much different within the same model, no matter if a pickup is machine or hand wound a person still has to make sure it's been wound a certain number of times.

It also opens up the high end in an airy way and helps definition. I think that was about the scatterwinding reducing the internal impedance of the coils.

Bottom line: Scatterwinding is a pretty good thing.