WezV Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 this is something i am throwing together for a guy i used to work with. i am a bit bored of making tele's from scratch and am too busy to be making things that dont have my full interest... but once we decided to do a parts build it was a project i could get on board with Spec: Allparts swamp ash body Allparts V maple/rosewood neck Chrome gotoh hardware BKP custom wound humbucker sized P-90's and he asked for a really thin, almost oiled style british racing green finish that would wear quite quickly... which i had to think about for a bit. first deciding what he meant by BRG, as we went lighter than a lot of modern cars in that colour all the pics look a bit bluer than it does in person Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samba Pa Ti Posted July 29, 2010 Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 looks nice, what are those bare knuckle pups like ? are they worth the money and how do they compare to gretsch filtertrons ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted July 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2010 well i use BKP's quite a lot, but for me they consistently sound much better than any other brand i have regularly used. You can get great pickups a lot cheaper though, even custom made ones from damn good makers.... but tim's work is always quality and impresses. so for me they are worth the price, for others they may not be! my favorite 3 maker of pickups so far are BKP, TV jones and Bulldog now tv jones filtertrons are awesome, as good as BKP's - but they both make very different pickups with very little cross over in the range so i could not say one was better than the other but gretsch filtertrons, well i will say that TV jones and BKP are both better than those. notice that gretsch often use TV jones over their own brand pickups on some higher priced models edit: and dont forget that the prices are VAT free if you are outsde the EU.... thats currently 17.5% you (not you, but other non EU forum members) can knock off!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punk Posted August 1, 2010 Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 I like the color... why would he want the finish to wear quickly? for a relic-like effect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 yeah. i like the idea - its not as fake as a relic if you get to wear it through yourself tbh the guy just wants a nice workhorse that he doesnt have to stress about scratching and denting and we were on a budget so it needed a simple finish. i also like that it makes the most of the wood grain and i am sure some would argue for the tonal advantages of a thin finish too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orgmorg Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Really like that finish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 just about done, need better pics but the rain is stopping that from happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RestorationAD Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Did you dye the fret board? It looks good black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted August 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 yeah, thought it would tie it all in a bit better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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