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I found this in the used section at my local GC today. The pickups were changed to Bare Knucle pickups

The guitar is like new. I think the color is called Trans Amber.




but 2 of the pots were changed when the new pickups were installed.

Nice, how does it play? Which Bare Knuckles are they?

Thanks! It plays great.The pickups are called "Rebel Yell".

I. WANT. A. LEMON. DROP. LES. PAUL. NOW.

;_;

lovely finish. really nice. so were the pickups a happy coincidence from a mislisting or somethign?

Nice - I used to have a set of Rebel Yells in an LP copy - great pickups. Especially the neck pup, which I still have and is now in my LP Custom.

I assume you know this, but it's not clear from the OP. The two new pots are push-pull jobs and probably do something like splitting the new humbuckers or putting them out of phase.

I like the descriptions and build methods detailed on the Bareknuckle site, but naming the pickups themselves after dinosaur bands puts me off a bit.

timhulio wrote:I assume you know this, but it's not clear from the OP. The two new pots are push-pull jobs and probably do something like splitting the new humbuckers or putting them out of phase.

I like the descriptions and build methods detailed on the Bareknuckle site, but naming the pickups themselves after dinosaur bands puts me off a bit.

Oh, you're so cool.

They're pickups, it's just an attempt to hint at the kind of sound they'd make. It's better than DiMarzio Fast Tracks or something.

I don't fancy putting a pickup named after a band I don't like in my guitar. It can't just be me.

timhulio wrote:I don't fancy putting a pickup named after a band I don't like in my guitar. It can't just be me.

Nope - I was actually circling the Rebel yells a couple of years back and was totally aware that somewhere inside my brain I thought the name/ascociation was total cheese and yes, It slightly put me off. It didn't put me off actually buying them I should add. I didn't buy them...but not because of that doubt.

So no, you'tre not alone Timbo. I don't think having company makes it right though and Watts is kind of right on this ...but fuck it, that's human beings for you.

Funny you wouldn't want a pickup in your guitar because it was named after a cheesey 80's song. Imagine how few people would have picked up a Les Paul Signature guitar just because they didn't like jazz.

*Jimmy Page wanders into a guitar store*

"This guitar looks amazing, and sounds great. But do you have anything that isn't endorsed by a jazz player?"

leo fender doesn't play guitar? haha those guitars must be shit

timhulio wrote:I like the descriptions and build methods detailed on the Bareknuckle site, but naming the pickups themselves after dinosaur bands puts me off a bit.

Haha,my pickups heard you talking about them...look at the bridge.

Tee-hee! Shouldn't it be Billy Idol? Who on earth is that? I mean, Billy Idol was pretty funny in The Wedding Singer, and he's generally pretty self-effacing and good value in interviews... but then there's this:



Did you yank out the push-pull knobs? Any idea what they do?