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Darkness on the edge of Tone
The first major components for my Kamikaze came in today: the Bare Knuckle Pickups I had ordered!!!
The pickups I ordered are a Miracle Man bridge pickup with Nailbomb cover and an Irish Tour single coil neck with green cover.
A brief word about these pickups:
You can tell immediately that these are built my fanatics. The build quality is amazing, as is the attention to fine detail. A couple of facts about the Miracle Man and the lengths Tim Mills goes through for his tone quest:
> The baseplate on the humbucker pickup, other than the wide spacing, is an exact replica of a '58 PAF-21AWG nickel silver, same tooling marks, even the grain in the nickel silver is going in the right way-not even Gibson have got this right in their reissue stuff ...
>The braid on the humbucker pickup is made by the original manufacturer to Gibson in the '50s, even the strands in the jacket were counted to assure that this is an exact recreation ...
The ancillary stuff that came with the pickups was great, too: a decal, wiring diagram, lifetime warranty (non-transferable), heavy pick with the BK logo on it, and even a set of strings!!
Of course, the proof is in the pudding, and it's what the pickups sound like that matter the most.
Here is what the Kamikaze is starting to shape up into now
Note: The moment I dropped the pups and the bridge onto the body, I could feel the increase in weight; I had forgotten how much the solid maple guitars weighed! Once I add the neck, this guitar will weigh a ton!!
The pickups I ordered are a Miracle Man bridge pickup with Nailbomb cover and an Irish Tour single coil neck with green cover.
A brief word about these pickups:
You can tell immediately that these are built my fanatics. The build quality is amazing, as is the attention to fine detail. A couple of facts about the Miracle Man and the lengths Tim Mills goes through for his tone quest:
> The baseplate on the humbucker pickup, other than the wide spacing, is an exact replica of a '58 PAF-21AWG nickel silver, same tooling marks, even the grain in the nickel silver is going in the right way-not even Gibson have got this right in their reissue stuff ...
>The braid on the humbucker pickup is made by the original manufacturer to Gibson in the '50s, even the strands in the jacket were counted to assure that this is an exact recreation ...
The ancillary stuff that came with the pickups was great, too: a decal, wiring diagram, lifetime warranty (non-transferable), heavy pick with the BK logo on it, and even a set of strings!!
Of course, the proof is in the pudding, and it's what the pickups sound like that matter the most.
Here is what the Kamikaze is starting to shape up into now
Note: The moment I dropped the pups and the bridge onto the body, I could feel the increase in weight; I had forgotten how much the solid maple guitars weighed! Once I add the neck, this guitar will weigh a ton!!
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