Burstbucker Pros, Tone Pros Kluson tuners....

[Blunote]

I have the screws for the BBs in my desk but Josh didn't need them and I'd be needing them for the SD59/Pearly Gates combination he traded me. I put the BBs in my 150P because they had a good reputation, and I was curious to see what kind of difference it made in the tone of the guitar. After a while, I started to miss the schallars so I swapped them back in and the BBs sat in my desk for about a year. I thought I'd sell them but instead traded them to Josh mostly because of how much he says he likes them. Next thing I know, they're for sale, Then I'm following a DIY thread seeing them installed in a guitar in the UK.

 

Sheesh!

 

Oh well. It's worth it for the entertainment value alone.

[DetroitBlues]

I only sold them because I found a pair of black coil bobbin Gibsons pickups... I really wanted them though as they are my favorite pickup.

[Steiner]

_{Another stunning example of you ingenuity H. Nice work.}

[yoslate]

By the time I'm 60, I may not be able to play...

 

Heh.... I'll be sixty next month. I wish all I needed to do for my playing was down a little glucosamine....

[H]

For those that wanted to hear the Burstbuckers in 'dirty' mode, here's something I hacked together earlier today: http://db.tt/IPNRC4bK

 

I'm playing rhythm guitar (150 with Burstbuckers), bass, counter-melody (150) and lead (Electrabird) using the bridge/middle position. Drums are a sim. 150 through a Twin Reverb sim with a bit of 'hair'. ElectraBird through an AC30 sim set up like Brian May uses them.

 

It needs loads more work but I thought I'd share what's done so far.

[jamison162]

Looks good man! I personally prefer the A2 BB's and even the '57 Classics to the BB Pros. Gibson doesn't put the BBP's in many of their Historics, the main pickup combination being a BB1/BB2. But that's neither here nor there.

 

Tuning the guitar "up" doesn't really stretch the strings out no more than standard tuning, they just hold more tension. (Unless you are tuning up, then back down, up and down several times in a row.) Actually stretching them in by hand will get the job done faster with more noticeable results.