Kendalllikevines
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Does anyone have experience with these guitars? They seem to be priced fairly for custom builds, but I was wondering about quality.
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I don't think so. We've never seen any building thread about a blackwater, and we've even never seen Aaron posting around here...Does anyone have experience with these guitars?
If only there was some kind of search function!
>I had a hard time finding reviews on these but i loved the entwistle neodymium pickups i put in my 6 so i figured id take a risk and for 160/set for custom hand wound pickups it was a steal. I contacted Aaron from BWG with my order of a set of 7 string humbuckers uncovered with white bobbins and received in 2 weeks across to the east coast from Texas. I replaced the emg 707 tw pickups in my schecter hellraiser c7. The baseplates were for passive mounts so i shipped them back and he quickly replaced them. Second issue was that schecter didnt drill a groundwire hole.. So after doing that i spent far too long wiring and rewiring before i finally asked the color coding of the wiring which follows BKP rather than SD. Finally i got them all wired up proper and tried them out. These things are crystal clear and ive been playing my 7 more than my 6s or 8 string since putting them in. They are incredibly dynamic sounding and every note is so defined when strumming large chords. They are high output and i wired coil taps for each. I really feel like neodymium pickups are the future of pickups. They have a huge range and are tight and bright (just like i like my women). They are also silent in operation almost as good as emg. Cleans are brilliant and they djent quite nicely through both my studio setup (gsp 1101>krk 10s>yamaha h50m x2) and my rig (mxr smart gate>mxr super comp>gsp 1101>peavey classic 50/50>212 loaded with jensen jetts) these pickups are a lot more bright than most which is often recommended by running an overdrive with the tone cranked pre amp which i don't need.. I'll post video and direct recordings by request just tell me what you want to hear/see (keep it broad don't ask me to play freebird). I havent used BKP but after using these i have no desire to try another pickup.. Im saving up for a set for my 8
Tl:dr these pickups kick ass
sorry i'm fairly new here, it's probably too detailed but it's mostly for those interested in purchasing
he's basically gone dark.Anyone know if Black Water Guitars is still in business? Website is still up, but Instagram and Facebook seem to have not been updated in a year or more.
Damn, that's crazy. What would prompt something like this? I mean for someone with a professional reputation who has been delivering on quality instruments.... what could have brought them to tarnish everything they worked so hard for?