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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BLACKGUARD TELE SERIES
Marking the birth of solid body guitar tone, the Blackguard Tele series accurately recreates the sounds of the original 1950 flat pole and later 1955 staggered pole single coil Telecaster pickups.
The Flat'50 set with zinc plated bridge grounding plate, flush Alnico V magnets, scatterwound coils of plain enamel wire with string wrapped bridge and authentic deep drawn neck cover characterise the bright twang, punchy mid and power of the original Esquires, Broadcasters and Nocasters.
The '55 Stagger introduces the slightly lighter wound staggered bridge coil with raised D and G poles for improved string to string balance and copper plated bridge grounding plate. Alnico V magnets and scatterwound coils produce plenty of snap and bite through the upper mids and highs as well as exceptional response in the bottom end defining the original Telecaster tone.
Both sets feature stock polarity neck coils, vintage correct chrome plated brass neck covers and vintage cloth hook up wire.
Flat '50 set '55 Stagger set
Wound, made and played the traditional way-by hand!
The PG Blues set is a replica of Peter Green's famous Les Paul humbucker set also used by Gary Moore.
The set has been made based on research from the time the guitar was in Peter and Gary's possesion and with the help of Sam Lee who did the original repair on the neck pickup and Charlie Chandler who has subsequently looked after the guitar for Gary.
The PG Blues set features Alnico II unpolished magnets, scatterwound bridge coils of 42AWG plain enamel wire and uniquely wound Heavy Formvar neck coils for the legendary out of phase mid position. Vintage correct solid nickel silver baseplates and covers along with totally unpotted coils all add to the vowel like vocal delivery, bright yet sweet highs and trademark in between tone. From haunting ambient lead lines, delicate chording to all out blues rock, the PG Blues humbuckers are for serious players not afraid of a little black magic.
The bridge and neck humbuckers in this set are wound permanently out of phase with each other and are available in nickel, chrome or gold plated covers.
Wound, made and played the traditional way-by hand!
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
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.
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.
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.
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