Lewguitar
Old Know It All
Been thinning the herd and selling a lot of guitars and amps and things. Serious thinning going on but it frees me up for some new things.
I found a second Bernie Marsden. When I find a guitar I love, I like to have two. Two SE Silver Skies, two 90's CE22's...now two Bernies.
It's fun to compare different pickups in the same model guitar and eventually I do something a little different with each guitar.
The original Korean pickups had already been removed from Bernie #2, but they are in the case.
The previous owner replaced them with a Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker Set. That's the set Seymour wound for Jeff Beck 40 years ago and which Jeff used to record the Blow By Blow album.
It's a Duncan Jazz neck and Duncan JB bridge. Very nice set of pickups but I already have a JB and a 59 in a SE Singlecut.
I installed a set of double cream Duncan Antiquitys that I have been using and liking for a long time.
The Antiquitys make Bernie #2 sound quite different from Bernie #1, which still has the original zebra 245 pickups.
The Antiquitys are brighter and louder.
With the neck Antiquity I can get a cleaner, clearer tone, but also a more aggressive tone than I can with the stock pickups in Bernie #1.
The bridge Antiquity is like a 50's paf that got a few extra winds and a strong roughcast A2 magnet. It has some real snarl and attitude like one of the especially good 50's pafs.
I like the stock SE 245 pickups in Bernie #1. But I'm happier with just a little more output and sizzle on top, and the Antiquitys provide that and the guitar is more fun to play.
But Bernie #1 is LOT of fun to play too, and it's stock.
I have some BKP Abraxas pickups coming in about a month.
I want to try those in the Bernie #1.
Like I said, it's nice to have two guitars of the same model to compare pickups in and have a choice.
My two Bernies play identically BTW. They feel the same although one resonates acoustically with a little more bass and mids.
I found a second Bernie Marsden. When I find a guitar I love, I like to have two. Two SE Silver Skies, two 90's CE22's...now two Bernies.
It's fun to compare different pickups in the same model guitar and eventually I do something a little different with each guitar.
The original Korean pickups had already been removed from Bernie #2, but they are in the case.
The previous owner replaced them with a Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker Set. That's the set Seymour wound for Jeff Beck 40 years ago and which Jeff used to record the Blow By Blow album.
It's a Duncan Jazz neck and Duncan JB bridge. Very nice set of pickups but I already have a JB and a 59 in a SE Singlecut.
I installed a set of double cream Duncan Antiquitys that I have been using and liking for a long time.
The Antiquitys make Bernie #2 sound quite different from Bernie #1, which still has the original zebra 245 pickups.
The Antiquitys are brighter and louder.
With the neck Antiquity I can get a cleaner, clearer tone, but also a more aggressive tone than I can with the stock pickups in Bernie #1.
The bridge Antiquity is like a 50's paf that got a few extra winds and a strong roughcast A2 magnet. It has some real snarl and attitude like one of the especially good 50's pafs.
I like the stock SE 245 pickups in Bernie #1. But I'm happier with just a little more output and sizzle on top, and the Antiquitys provide that and the guitar is more fun to play.
But Bernie #1 is LOT of fun to play too, and it's stock.
I have some BKP Abraxas pickups coming in about a month.
I want to try those in the Bernie #1.
Like I said, it's nice to have two guitars of the same model to compare pickups in and have a choice.
My two Bernies play identically BTW. They feel the same although one resonates acoustically with a little more bass and mids.
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