Les pauls, pickups, musicstyles, and stuff

[deg0ey]

Nailbomb bridge and an Emerald neck. The queens gold, the others burned chrome. Oh boy i just can't wait!!!

Way to change your mind at the last minute :lol:

I'm sure you'll love them :drink:

[Orpheo]

Nailbomb bridge and an Emerald neck. The queens gold, the others burned chrome. Oh boy i just can't wait!!!

Way to change your mind at the last minute :lol:

I'm sure you'll love them :drink:

the queens... well. i had to have them! I have 2 3 pickup les paul customs, and one of them i wanna turn in a sort-off les paulocaster. The other one had to be very versatile, and what you guys said, well, i just followed, and if the pickup isn't what I want it to be, i am sure there's something I can arrange with Tim, I'm sure of that, but I'm not afraid it's gonna be a bad pickup in my les paul!

And if those pickups are what I want them to be, I'll save up for 4 more pickups! (set of mules and set of black dogs). yeah people, i've got too many les pauls :(

[fps_dean]

Based on the initial description, I would have said Nailbomb bridge, Crawler/Abraxas neck ....  

But if you weren't into the Nailbomb clips and want a Mule neck, then I'd plunk my money on the Emerald bridge, or maybe the Black Dog bridge, to go with it.

the nailbombclip sounded cool and great, but I'm afraid thats the only thing that pickup can do (like EMG"s). or is it equally good on a VERY low gain amp for bluesy stuff?

ofcourse it is. It's bareknuckle, not emg :P

If they were that monotoned, I wouldn't be putting one into my ESP when I get the money... or at least I'd have to think it over long and hard.

Search the Players forum for Nailbomb.  There are some clean clips as well... we even got someone playing Jazz on a Nailbomb and it sounds pretty damn good too!

They're have a slightly more vintage voicing than one might think, and if you really want cleans just go get a Vox AC30!  Any pickup other than EMGs sound great clean through those amps, and I'm sure even EMGs would sound great clean too if you could get a clean tone from them through one (and I should note, I am not a fan at all of EMGs).

[sgmypod]

Emerald?

[Orpheo]

this is joly good fun...

I just got my 4 BKP. 2 mississipi queens, calibrated, an emerald neck and nailbomb bridge. at least. that was my order. the MP's are fine. but the emerald is for the bridge now and the nailbomb for the neck...

this aint fun at all, since this is NOT what I ordered, and frankly, doubt will sound right. any thoughts on this?

[Antag]

Are you absolutely convinced that it's an Emerald bridge & Nailbomb neck?

What does the warranty card for each pickup list the DC Resistance values?

IMO the thing to do would be to mail Tim rather than complain on the forum - I'm sure a genuine mistake could be put right...

[carlaz]

I agree -- BKP have excellent customer service, and any trouble can be quickly cleared up! :)

[Orpheo]

Are you absolutely convinced that it's an Emerald bridge & Nailbomb neck?

What does the warranty card for each pickup list the DC Resistance values?

IMO the thing to do would be to mail Tim rather than complain on the forum - I'm sure a genuine mistake could be put right...

oh i wasn't complaining, eventhough it seemed that way (after reading it over :P ) it was more like an uhm... remark.

I measured the DC R values, and they're consistant with the values on the warrantycard. no problem, cause I decided to keep them anyway, and buy an emerald neck and nailbomb bridge for another guitar i have. actually, i will make 2 sets out of it :P so no problem.

[Antag]

I measured the DC R values, and they're consistant with the values on the warrantycard.

But what were the values on the card?

The point I was trying to make was that when I ordered the pickups for my Les Paul (Nailbomb bridge & VHII neck), both pickups had "neck" ticked on the box, but the NB was clearly a bridge pickup as it was 16k - the NB neck is something like 8.3k IIRC - the product page doesn't really make it clear that the neck pickups are totally different spec & voiced specifically to work with the corresponding bridge pickup.

I was just curious whether you thought it was a neck pickup because someone ticked the wrong box on the packaging - i.e. simple misunderstanding or genuine mistake.

If it was me & the mistake wasn't due to me entering the order wrongly (check your email confirmation), I'd contact Tim & ask to put it right. Not because I'm a troublemaker (well, OK, I am :)) but because I'd always be wondering whether it would have been better to have what I actually wanted in the first place...

[RorySRV]

I thought if you were a big darkness fan you would have got a black dog set  :?

I mean listen to the sound sample on this post:

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4804

[Orpheo]

I measured the DC R values, and they're consistant with the values on the warrantycard.

But what were the values on the card?

The point I was trying to make was that when I ordered the pickups for my Les Paul (Nailbomb bridge & VHII neck), both pickups had "neck" ticked on the box, but the NB was clearly a bridge pickup as it was 16k - the NB neck is something like 8.3k IIRC - the product page doesn't really make it clear that the neck pickups are totally different spec & voiced specifically to work with the corresponding bridge pickup.

I was just curious whether you thought it was a neck pickup because someone ticked the wrong box on the packaging - i.e. simple misunderstanding or genuine mistake.

If it was me & the mistake wasn't due to me entering the order wrongly (check your email confirmation), I'd contact Tim & ask to put it right. Not because I'm a troublemaker (well, OK, I am :)) but because I'd always be wondering whether it would have been better to have what I actually wanted in the first place...

for the emerald: approx. 13 kOhms. for the nailbomb: approx. 10 kOhms. thats what the cards said, and what I measured.

but uhm...

I just had them installed, and just played on them.....


 :twisted:  :lol:

the sound is, despite being the 'wrong' pickups', exactly what i wanted! damn this sounds GOOD. don't wanna change a thing now. well, just ONE thing i guess. The nailbomb is a bit on the bassy side,  but i have to 'work' around that. I know thats fine, but i have to get used to AND being bassy AND having low output. but on my JCM800 and CMW amplifiers, the pickups simply rock. on the JCM i get a nice john sykes like tone, or zakk wylde, or anything 'hardrock' to metal.

on my CMW its a whole diffirent ballpark. Its much more vintage, more like thin lizzy, the darkness, diamond head, with good harmonics and nice FATTY solo's (with a TS9 in front of it).

overall, i am VERY pleased, despite the mixup.

I will get a set of black dogs, for my les paul standard, but not any time soon, 'cause i have to save up for a LOT of other stuff (school, home, car, etc etc).

what can i say exept 'i'm a happy man now!'

oh, for the guys who arent familiar with CMW amps, its a dutch (literally) homebrewed amplifier, and my version took the guts out of a marshall studio15, and a preamp of a vox (as far as I remember it correctly) and it sounds like a cranked up plexi, with a LOT less watts.

well uhm. so far my 'review'. lets get rocked!