Humbucker/Single coil choice for new guitar

[Steve A Gillespie]

Hey Guys,

I'm looking far a little help in choosing the "right" pickups for a guitar I'm having built.
Here's the specs:
Scale: 25 1/2"
Neck: Maple shaft & ebony fretboard
Body: Alder
Flat mount fender bridge
Pickups: Single coil in the neck and humbucker in the bridge

Music: think 70's AC/DC. Like during Let There Be Rock. Crunch with the gain high enough to almost be distortion. This will be mostly a rhythm guitar. I'm also doing the vocals in this project and adding leads into it would require me to stand still for almost the whole show and I hate that 

I'll be playing through a Marshall 6101 with a 2x12 extension cab. The cab is currently loaded with Eminence Legends.

I was thinking of the Abraxas but bk doesn't have a matched single in their HSS sets. Any ideas???

[darrenw5094]

First thought for me, was also Abraxas. It should balance nicely in there and nail the classic rock thing.
Not sure about the SC neck, but just because BKP store doesn't have a matched set, doesn't mean that a BKP SC won't work with the Abraxas. Not sure on BKP SC range myself, so i will leave that to the SC members. 

[Telerocker]

Alder, maple, ebony could turn out as a bright, percussive guitar, but I heard alder bolt-ons that are quite neutral and sometimes even middy. It's a bit of gamble. Nevertheless the Abraxas is a good middle of the road here: some extra mids, less highs and a bit more compression than the Mule. For the neck I would pick an Irish Tour, that also matches if you want to split the Abraxas.

I have IT's paired with a Crawler in a swampash/ebony board-strat. Great combo for a lot of styles. The Irish Tour-neck has that woody vintage character, but with more bass, mids and a tad less topend than the Mother's Milk. They're grittier and handle (loads of) gain with authority. Clean the neckpickup sounds very good too. From RHCP to SRV to (hard)rock, the IT will deliver.

[AnnunakiMassacr]

Alder, maple, ebony could turn out as a bright, percussive guitar, but I heard alder bolt-ons that are quite neutral and sometimes even middy.

I can vouch for that with my Silhouette Special

[Steve A Gillespie]

Well I've heard from a few of you and from bk themselves. I'm going with the Abraxas and Irish Tour. Thanks for all your help. I'll post pics and maybe some sound clips when it's finally finished. Thanks again.

[Telerocker]

Well I've heard from a few of you and from bk themselves. I'm going with the Abraxas and Irish Tour. Thanks for all your help. I'll post pics and maybe some sound clips when it's finally finished. Thanks again.

Actually you can't go wrong with that combo. Just tweak for the right height/sweet spot as scatterwound pickups are sensitive for that.

[fdesalvo]

Abraxas + 63 Veneer = heaven in every position and can do any non-extreme (some may argue this!) style with authority.  All samples here use these two exclusively: www.soundcloud.com/frankdesalvo