Just wondering if anyone has tried these pickups.
The sound clips on their site are interesting

specifically the new PAT Pend Strat® Series - '59 Slab Board set

at

http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/mai ... es=patpend

Cheers

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Totally gratuitous gear list
2011 Mustang Special LPB (pawn shop series)
2011 Les Paul 50s Tribute series
2010 Highway one Strat Satin black with maple neck
1999 Fender Toronado
1959 Strat slab neck on a 1969 Strat body
1967 Gretsch Double Anniversary

Love my Sultans set, absolutely adore em infact.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have in my trad-strat guitar. It's a modern guitar with a 63/64 sound. It doensnt do gain, it just does nice plunky sounds. Like it was meant to.

If you give Tim a ring, he'll make what you want, for pretty much the same price as a regular set (£165).
Mine were made specificaly to make a 2point trem'ed modern design custom shop to sound like a real strat.

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Hi Tongo: another vote for Bare Knuckle's Sultans single-coil set. Pricey, but I love mine - the ultimate vintage flavored pickups in my meaningless opinion:





By the way, a word to the wise: when shopping for those I found Bare Knuckle's pre-loaded pickguard, as you see it in my photos, was a bit cheaper than buying all the components and putting it together myself. My soldering is up to standard - but theirs is beyond criticism too. I can't do any better than them, so why try? Good quality parts, too.

I want to try their Peter Green humbuckers sometime. I have a Les Paul Custom those might find their way into sooner or later.

Cheers - C

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Tried a Les Paul faded with a PG set in em the weekend, when I went to get my Carl Martin Plexitone.
I tried it out through of all things a Blues Junior, and you know what I think of them.
Well the PG set sounded great, really nice and clear in either position. Just like some old PAF's. The middle position was good too, unusual but good. Whatever they do to the PG set, it's not just the usual magnet flip over that most do.

If I could find a LP I liked, they'd be my next buy.

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Ha. I thought of you a couple of weeks ago when I was looking at a mint condition used LP in the window of Macari's in the Charing Cross Road the other day. Now I'm wracking my brains to remember which model it was... A beautiful tobacco burst finish on a not too heavily figured maple front. And most important from your point of view, frets that went right to the edges of the fingerboard, instead of that binding nib thing you hate so much.

Damned if I can recall what model it was, though I believe it was in the grand-and-a-half range. I may be back around there Monday. I'll have a look and see if it's still there. A little photie wouldn't hurt either, huh?

Cheers - C

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Did Bare Knuckles work with the Clapton Mid-Boost circuit and S-1 switching system?

Ceri
Macari's eh?
I'll have a gander, surely in this day and age, it will be online.
The LP I tried was a LP faded, the same as Serge's. The guy had .009"s on there tuned down to Eb. It felt like I was playing elastic bands being used to a Strat with .010"s at concert pitch. Still it was nice, the correct colour (in fact the colour was perfect).
Pretty much the same as this.



Anyway the nib quibble wasn't so bad with that guitar. Or perhaps I just chose to notice it less because I was so smitten.
Even the owner (a real nice chap, one of those people you think 'I'm glad I met him' when you walk away) had a moan about the nibs. And I thoroughly recommend the Carl Martin Plexitone. What a pedal, a overdrive that actually does what it says on the tin. I took my 18watter up to 1.5 with the Plexitone and the missus was complaining it was making the bathwater vibrate.
BIG WIN in my book. Took me 3 days to stop my ears ringing.

Chromeface.

I don't think they've ever worked with Clapton. Any pickups work with the midboost circuit. Though you will incur noise using regular singlecoils. I've used regular singlecoils on a midboost circuit and in truth, it's bad. Unless you use a wireless system then it's mitigated somewhat, because you're not getting a load of cable noise too. Which is emphasised by the boost circuit.
I've put Humbuckers on the boost and got mixed results. Some are just too bass heavy to be of any real use. The Dimarzio Fast Track 2 works well though.

Tim Mills at BareKnuckles is on record as saying he will never make a singlecoil sized humbucker. Given the quality of his singlecoils and humbuckers, you can hardly blame him.
Fender CustomShop have started working with BareKnuckles. The UK just had a delivery at the end of February of 15 (I think) MasterBuilt guitars. Most had BK's fitted. They were'nt special orders.
Maybe Mike will disclose more, or correct my fallible memory.

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I really wonder how the Sultans pickup set would sound on the Mark Knopfler signature model, though I'm not sure if Mark has already tried these BareKnuckle pickups on his personal Hot-Rod Red axe.

Hi chromeface: I'm not aware of Knopfler having used these pickups, though he might have. I imagine he's very satisfied with the pups Fender put in his Strats and Teles for him.

However, the one thing I know for certain is that if he plays a guitar with Bare Knuckle pickups in it he will sound like Mark Knopfler. Just a couple of months ago I saw him play a Strat, a Tele, a Les Paul, a Pensa-Suhr, a National and a Danelectro all in the same show. He sounded like himself through them all.

A great sound!

Cheers - C

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I have Bare Knuckle pickups in my Les Paul. Black Dog in the bridge position and The Mule in the neck position. As my LP is a Custom Classic, I even have a middle hambucker, which I left unchanged (it's a DiMarzio Super Distortion). For what I play, I'd give the Black Dog 7/10, whereas The Mule is 10/10 hands down. I even installed a coil tap on the Mule and even the single coil sound is fantastic.

Haven't checked single coil pickups by Bare Knuckle, but if it was me I'd go for the Apache set, because they seem to be more 'quacky'.

I've got BKP apaches in my relic strat and slowhand in my nos strat. I can highly recommend them both, apaches are my favourites as they suit my style. BKP are the best I've come across and I've tried out a lot of pup's over the years.

Thanks everyone.. I will probably go with the new Strat PAT series from bkp

Cheers

I have the Country Boy tele set for my duke blue guitar build, can't wait to hear them on this guitar!

I'd opt for a Slowhand set on a CS Eric Clapton Blackie Tribute guitar.



Not sure if the Blackie replica Clapton used during the RAH concert in May 17th, 2006 was fitted with BareKnuckles.

OK then....

Which humbucker to replace the Atomic in the Deluxe Strat HSS?

Had a 2010 about 6 months now and the only weakness is the Atomic -- just a little flat and lifeless. But don't want to overpower/unbalance the S1 rig, which is tremendously versatile.

Still, the punch of something like a Holydiver for lead work would be nice....