Made, Wound and Played by hand in the U.K !
A range of Humbuckers (Short/long legs, Standard spacing,7 and 8 string), single coil Strat (with/without baseplates), Tele, P90's, humbucker sized P90's and bass pickups.
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FOR ALL INQUIRIES PLEASE USE THE LINK TO THE BAREKNUCKLE PICKUPS WEBSITE.
Standard Humbucker Options
Camo 'Battle Worn' cover option
New bobbin colour options : as well as the standard cream and black, we now offer white, red, green and yellow in any combination.
STEVE STEVENS VIDEO : You can also check out Steve's signature Rebell Yell Humbucker demos followed by a VHII Humbucker demo in the music player
HEAVENS BASEMENT FEATURING APACHE SINGLE COILS
ROY FULTON DEMONSTRATING ROY BUCHANAN TECHNIQUES USING BLACKGUARD STAGGERED 55 TELE KIT
HANDWOUND GUITAR AND BASS PICKUPS USING THE HIGHEST QUALITY COMPONENTS AND SCATTERWOUND FOR ULTIMATE SOUND AND PERFORMANCE.
HOW WE MAKE THEM :
Making the ultimate sounding pickups is our goal at Bare Knuckle and we don't do that by cutting corners. All of our pickups are completely hand-made, one at a time, and nothing but the highest quality is acceptable. We make each pickup to withstand a lifetime of playing and that life starts out with handwinding. Winding We scatterwind the coils of each pickup individually with varying gauges of enamelled copper wire, the thickness of the wire and type of wire insulation we use are dependant upon the sound we're after. We wind the majority of our pickups with the traditional plain enamel wire used originally in the early days of pickup winding.
Scatterwinding by hand can be time consuming but it has many advantages over conventional machine winding, not least a far superior sound. When a coil is scatterwound, the wire isn't as close or even, layer on layer, as with a machine and this lowers the distributed capacitance that exists between the turns of the wire. Lower capacitance allows more top end through, the resonant peak increases slightly and the pickup has a flatter frequency response across its range. The result is a clearer, more open sound that has the impression of being louder purely by the amount of extra detail and dynamics present. Potting The finished coil is potted in a mixture of paraffin wax and bees wax to solidify the windings and prevent microphonic feedback. We wax pot all of our pickups and any that require a metal cover are wax potted a second time to eliminate microphony.
THE RANGE :
Humbuckers all feature solid 21 gauge nickel silver baseplates, soft iron pole screws and slugs along with machined pole shoes and maple spacers for a sturdy, reliable construction with the minimum of treble loss and unwanted microphony.
Strat and Tele single coils are hand made using classic Forbon flat sets and sand cast magnets. Tele bridge pickups feature copper plated steel or zinc plated steel grounding plates and original cord wrap.
Bare Knuckle soapbars and dogears all use solid nickel silver and soft iron
pole screws.
All available : 7 and 8 string humbuckers and The Ox P Bass pickups and P Bass pickups.
New! Tele bass pickups
COMPONENTS :
The types of materials vary dependant upon the style of pickup but we always use the highest quality components throughout, even manufacturing a lot of parts ourselves to guarantee consistency and reliability. For example we hand machine our humbucker pole shoes, cut maple spacers by hand and even make various types of pickup baseplate too.
All of our Alnico II, III, IV and V magnets are individually sand cast, unpolished like the originals and along with our Ceramic magnets are all the correct longer vintage size. This ensures a better balance of power and tonal character. For hook up cable we offer a choice of shielded 4 conductor, original vintage correct braided 7/30 cloth 2 conductor or original 7/30 cloth 'push back' cable to provide maximum sonic flexibilty and integrity.
as you may have noticed in metal hammer, terrorizer, zero tolerance and a number of other publications, we're now hurtling towards the release of our debut 'reason & abstract' EP, distributed through eulogy media. in the meantime, be sure to check our page for news on the 'leftfield winter tour 2010' with dam throughout jan / feb.
while you wait though, feast your eyes on this 'ere debut gig report from our performance on the main stage at fusion '09:
Hi everybody, just here to say our new RORY GALLAGHER HAWK BOOSTER is ready for shipping. Have a listen if you get a chance, All the best, Stevie Flynn.
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