identifying BKP pickups in a new guitar

charlola

Wow! Great response. Thank you.
Yes, it's a Kemp and plays great - has modern/thinner neck profile. Pickups are flipping amazing @OilCityPickups LOL love the reply.
I know BKP supply a warranty card with serial number but I didn't get anything else with the guitar. 

Kittyfrisk

I have a set of Yardbirds in my favourite tele partscaster & I still have the box, beermat etc.
However, even with this 'supportive evidence' how would anyone be able to accurately verify the designation/specification of any pickups without returning them to BKP for checking or disassembling them ?
Just seems a bit self defeating for sales.

Nikc

I wouldn't be to worried about the pup's - that guitar's not a strat

OilCityPickups

thegummy said:

Is there a way of determining what kind of magnet is used on a pickup that you have in front of you?

The only way is to use a sophisticated and very expensive gauss meter. Then you will need the reference gauss levels for each magnet type, and then there is no way to tell a partially charged alnico 5 say from a fully charged alnico 2. Some of BKs pickups, like the Riff Raff are built with short alnico 5 magnets ... so in theory you could take a magnet out and determine what the pickup was likely to be by that.

SteveRobinson

Kittyfrisk said:

Just seems a bit self defeating for sales.

Maybe it helps sales, as second hand ones can't be positively identified and if you want a particular model you have to buy new.

charlola

Nikc said:

I wouldn't be to worried about the pup's - that guitar's not a strat

Def not, nothing like a Fender for example anyway, no

SteveRobinson

OilCityPickups said:

thegummy said:

Is there a way of determining what kind of magnet is used on a pickup that you have in front of you?

The only way is to use a sophisticated and very expensive gauss meter. 

The only sure way is to use a mass spectrometer but they are even more expensive than a gauss meter 

OilCityPickups

SteveRobinson said:

OilCityPickups said:

thegummy said:

Is there a way of determining what kind of magnet is used on a pickup that you have in front of you?

The only way is to use a sophisticated and very expensive gauss meter. 

The only sure way is to use a mass spectrometer but they are even more expensive than a gauss meter 

Exactly ... but most of us don't have a mass spectrometer hanging about the place. We do have a gauss meter ... but interpreting the results is a skilled business.