Hello!
It's been a long time since I posted and my first post back is looking for help.
I bought a new LS320 thru the distributor in the UK via my friends music store. It was around 2004-5.
Whilst the guitar was on it's way up I also bought a pair of BKP pickups, a Mule and a Stormy Monday and I fitted them almost the same day I received the guitar. I took the original pickups out complete with cellophane cover and put them in a drawer and completely forgot about them.
I sold the guitar around 2009 to fund a replica. I understand they were supposed to come with SD Seth Lovers but the pickups have zero markings on them. I have a set of Seth's in a Les Paul and they have the usual SD markings and are around 7.7k neck and 8.0k bridge.
These pickups are 7.5k neck and 11.5k bridge.
I have put them in to a Yamaha SG1820 that came with SD 59's. I like the Tokai pickups better. The neck is plummy yet clear and feels like A2 the bridge is tighter and feels like A5, but I am guessing on both.
They don't look like the MK2's in my ES135 or the later ones in the ES158 which are both recognisably Tokai.
They sound really good, the bridge trebles are amazing...no spike and it's really nice on the top strings above the 12fret played clean where they sound so sweet...that's hard to do.
They have a little more mids than the 59's.
I'm very happy with them buy have no idea what they are!! Help!
Thanks for reading....
It's been a long time since I posted and my first post back is looking for help.
I bought a new LS320 thru the distributor in the UK via my friends music store. It was around 2004-5.
Whilst the guitar was on it's way up I also bought a pair of BKP pickups, a Mule and a Stormy Monday and I fitted them almost the same day I received the guitar. I took the original pickups out complete with cellophane cover and put them in a drawer and completely forgot about them.
I sold the guitar around 2009 to fund a replica. I understand they were supposed to come with SD Seth Lovers but the pickups have zero markings on them. I have a set of Seth's in a Les Paul and they have the usual SD markings and are around 7.7k neck and 8.0k bridge.
These pickups are 7.5k neck and 11.5k bridge.
I have put them in to a Yamaha SG1820 that came with SD 59's. I like the Tokai pickups better. The neck is plummy yet clear and feels like A2 the bridge is tighter and feels like A5, but I am guessing on both.
They don't look like the MK2's in my ES135 or the later ones in the ES158 which are both recognisably Tokai.
They sound really good, the bridge trebles are amazing...no spike and it's really nice on the top strings above the 12fret played clean where they sound so sweet...that's hard to do.
They have a little more mids than the 59's.
I'm very happy with them buy have no idea what they are!! Help!
Thanks for reading....
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