My guitars fitted with BK pickups

[pac90]

I have a Steinberger as a travel guitar, and it has H-S-H with Mules with aged nickle covers and a Veneer 63 SC, and new pots & 5 way



Its shown beside my Bernie with 53/10s for size comparison....originally I was going to try the Mules in the bernie....but didn't trust myself not to ruin it



It wasn't possible to A/B the mules against the 53/10s properly as the Bernie is heavy and more resonant acoustically but they sound great in the Steinberger - although you can tell its a much lighter body that they are in.

The next one is a old PRS soapbar1 which has been modded to HB size mississippi queens P90s, (HB size to hide previous older mods, and it was what I could get my hands on at the time), with new & extra pots and switches.

I only have good things to say about Bareknuckle  pickups, they make good but cheap guitars shine.
I keep flipping between the 2 SCs and enjoy the different character in sound; they have similar neck profiles and the same fretboard radius, 22 frets. The Steinberger stays at work mostly but plays and sounds great too; its more of a C shape and flatter fret board, 24 frets. Maybe I'll switch around the mules and P90s someday, but happy enough as is now

[blue]

you have three very nice looking guitars there, and some nice pickups too.  What kind of amplification are you using with them?

[gwEm]

Yes, a good stable there!

How is the Steinberger with Mules doing heavier rock?

[pac90]

Thanks, it was a bit of a learning curve with the soldering/wiring etc but got there in the end.

At home I have Vox AC4 12" with a celestion blue, and a Tweaker 15 combo on the way too. Got a good deal on the egnater (they are refreshing line), the vox is great but prefers single coils or tapped HB, wanted something able to do marshally/higher gain too, probably rig up a stereo setup with an ABY

Use a wee blackstar Fly3 stereo 'away' which is actually much better than I thought it would be, struggled with headphones and pocket pod before that - don't like wearing headphones - but its great for practicing in hotels etc and quite portable

..still learning and fannying about etc

If I didn't have the bernie I'd be looking at aping a macon in a PRS zach myers, putting in an HB MQ neck and crawler bridge, love the MQ pickups

[gwEm]

also, what headpiece have you got there on the Steinberger?

[pac90]

I got the guitar new from thomann.....the headpiece came from ebay..."headlessresearch"..is the shop....its easy enough to unscrew one and replace it with this....they have videos on youtube demoing it, comes from korea ok...its a comined ball end or normal strings adapter copied from more expensive models

Double ball end strings are about 3x the price.....so it works out better in the long run...a tip i learned from a failed attempt with a cheaper brass adapter, was to double back the high E to give it more metal to anchor....havent had any breakage with this one though, much better design....the other type didnt have flat bottom grub screw so was easy to cut through that string

[gwEm]

I got the guitar new from thomann.....the headpiece came from ebay..."headlessresearch"..is the shop....its easy enough to unscrew one and replace it with this....they have videos on youtube demoing it, comes from korea ok...its a comined ball end or normal strings adapter copied from more expensive models

Double ball end strings are about 3x the price.....so it works out better in the long run...a tip i learned from a failed attempt with a cheaper brass adapter, was to double back the high E to give it more metal to anchor....havent had any breakage with this one though, much better design....the other type didnt have flat bottom grub screw so was easy to cut through that string

cool, very interesting thanks.

I'm a bit of a Steinberger fan and was wondering if that was the one (seen it on ebay too). I have two Steinberger GPs, One Spirit GP and a Hohner B2A.

One of the GPs has the headlessresearch fixed bridge fitted, and its very nice quality.

[Kiichi]

Those Steinbergers have been tempting me for a while now. If I had the cash IŽd fit em differenly though, cause I would go either Pig90 set or Apig bridge with Pig90 neck. This tiny, brutal surprise. =)

That is a proper set you have there though. Covering good ground and looking nice.

[Telerocker]

Mules in a Steinberger, blimey, supercool man!
I like the Marsden. I would throw Mules or Abraxas in it.

[pac90]

Ah ok........googled your guitars, really cool. A pal of mine has a honer gt3 which set me on this path....the spirit doesnt have the heft of the honer, thats really dense, mines new so gibson own them now and use epiphon bits and bobs, but i was suprised at how good it was in build out of the box, except for the stock pickups....was passive epiphone sourced stamped emg from what i could find out

Got the mules from ebay, veneer 63 direct here, p90s from ebay and the old soapie wss only ~100quid from anothrr forum. The bernie was the most expensive as it was limited run with the usa pickups, but all together  all 3 guitars were affordable...something like 1500 all in, over time

[gwEm]

Those Steinbergers have been tempting me for a while now. If I had the cash IŽd fit em differenly though, cause I would go either Pig90 set or Apig bridge with Pig90 neck. This tiny, brutal surprise. =)

That is a proper set you have there though. Covering good ground and looking nice.

they're really reallly great fun with hot ceramic pickups. I have mine fitted with a miracle man set and a Ceramic Warpig 

[richard]

Nice set of guitars you have there. How do you find the 53/10s in your Bernie ?

[pac90]

they are good, the neck has always been great, struggled with the bridge until i realised i needed slightly longer pickup screws....its was needing to be just a touch lower, and kept pinging off the screw....now its great too, and they are well balanced....they can be split with the pull/push and think it has the dgt wiring as no real volume step change, just  less thick

My vox prefers the P90s or split HBs though, although the 53.10s are kind of 3dish, if that makes sense...they are out of production now, so keeping them in there....not for value though, its a keeper

I like the bernie so much i was toying with getting another one to put the p90s in, its a step above the soapie in quality

..I put usa amber knobs, a black usa wide fat nut, and vintage gotho locking tuners on it too,