I just bought a no name v shaped guitar, I mean it's not made of plastic or anything so adding new pickups to it would make it a sweet guitar, right?
so the real question is:
Does anyone have experience with this, or know if it is even worth it to spend money on pickups for this guitar?








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if there is one thing i have learned from my tutors at college

you can make a shit guitar, which feels good, sound great, with the right pickups

look at good emgs or bare knuckles








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hey thanks, man, i've been looking for a pickup company like this!
and thank you for the reply with useful info.








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is this about the bare knuckle company?

best pickups ever

bar none

check out sikth using their pickups

and muse

and a million other people

zakk wylde

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as long as the guitar feels good to you and is easy to play , why not put in a good set of pickups ?

i think its cool to have a great playing and sounding guitar for a bargin price.

what sound are you shooting for with this V ?
how much money are you looking to spend on pickups ?








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Flanringo wrote:

I just bought a no name v shaped guitar, I mean it's not made of plastic or anything so adding new pickups to it would make it a sweet guitar, right?
so the real question is:
Does anyone have experience with this, or know if it is even worth it to spend money on pickups for this guitar?

a good guitar is defined by the playability of the neck, then the sustain then over all tone. so if the neck is like butter and it has decent sustain then you have a winner.
i have never played with bareknuckels but i have been hearing good things about them
my personal weapon of choice is the emg 81, in pairs
emg 85s are great and have a slightly beefier tone then the 81(super lead pickup)
seymore duncan makes a few good screamers
dimarzio pickups have never really turned me on, especially when it comes to artificial harmonics.

go to your music store and play all the guitars with these kind of pickups before you buy, all of us here may have completely different views on what good guitar tone is. but as far as quality all the makers above build good stuff that will never fail.








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hey, thanks for all the replies, dudes. i'd like a pretty crunchy heavy sound, but still with decent cleans. if i'm confident the guitar will sound nice, i'll just buy the pickups i need, they couldn't be too expensive. yeah, i was looking at emg 81's at first, but then someone pointed me towards that bare knuckle company, they're reasonably priced, and seem to be quality pickups.








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for that
check out:

bareknuckles

pain killer
war pig
rebel yell
and
nail bomb








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hee heee heeeee... ok that was gay. ya anyway like they said, if the guitar PLAYS good but sounds like shit... buy pickups. Otherwise I wouldn't even bother.

GL

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yeah i was looking at the painkillers, i'll probably end up getting two of those. thanks for the help, dudes.








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Flanringo wrote:

hey, thanks for all the replies, dudes. i'd like a pretty crunchy heavy sound, but still with decent cleans. if i'm confident the guitar will sound nice, i'll just buy the pickups i need, they couldn't be too expensive. yeah, i was looking at emg 81's at first, but then someone pointed me towards that bare knuckle company, they're reasonably priced, and seem to be quality pickups.

i just went to the bare knuckle site....the pickups seem to be awesome , but the price sure dosent seem resonable. i could buy Qtuners for less money !

do you know of a les expensive place to buy the Bare Knuckles ?

i was expecting something like $100-$150 each ....maybe its the exchange rate ?








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I thought ninety a piece for those painkiller pickups was reasonable, considering they're all hand made. I don't know where emg's are made, or really any other pickup companies, i'm sure they're mostly made in japan, china, korea one of those places. qtuners, i've never heard of, i'll have to check them out. Chuck you'll have to give me a day or two to send you that pdf file.








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oh heck ...$90 isnt bad ....i found all the prices in pounds , and i saw things in the 100 to 200 pound range , which converts to something like $200 to $400 .
thats a bit steep for me.

i will check into them a bit more....i WAS in a hurry , maybe i mis read the info.

oh, take your time on the file....i appreciate you helping me out.
beggars cant be choosers

thanks again.








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ha, i think i'm the one who misread, i believe you're right, i looked at the prices in pounds.








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Flanringo wrote:

ha, i think i'm the one who misread, i believe you're right, i looked at the prices in pounds.

STOOPID EXCHANGE RATE !

seriously , dosent that stuff just chap your hide ?
all we want is a great sounding pickup ....why all the BS ?








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