Bare Knuckle Pickups

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Bare Knuckle Pickups
Company typePrivate
Industry Pickups
Founded2003;21 years ago (2003)
FounderTim Mills
Headquarters England, UK
Products Pickups
Number of employees
18
Website www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk

Bare Knuckle Pickups (Bare Knuckle, or BKP) is a privately-owned business based in the South West of England, UK, specialising in hand-wound electric guitar pickups. [1] The company was founded in 2003 by Tim Mills, who had previously worked with Elkie Brooks and Iced Earth. [2]

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Pickups

Bare Knuckle produce a complete range of humbuckers, single coils, P-90, and other pickup varieties for both Guitar and Bass. Ranging from original vintage models through to contemporary pickups such as the award winning 'The Mule' humbucker, 'Nailbomb' humbucker, 'Mississippi Queen' humbucker-size P90 and 'Apache' single coils.

Awards

Artists

Artists who have used the company's products include Propagandhi, [6] Johnny Marr, [7] Claudio Sanchez, [8] Jon Schaffer, [9] and Gabe Mangold. [10] Additionally, several artists have signature pickups customized by BKP, including Misha Mansoor of Periphery (band), Juggernaut & Ragnarok model; Steve Stevens of Billy Idol's band, Rebel Yell model; Josh Smith of Northlane, Impulse model; and Rabea Massaad of Toska and Dorje (band), the Silo model.

Bare Knuckle Pickups are also fitted by guitar manufacturers, such as Fender Custom Shop, Ibanez Guitars, Manson Guitars, Blackmachine, and Peerless guitars. [11]

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