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Oh you bought that beauty. I was drooling after it...
About the BKP's. I have not had a proper chance to play it through a good head and cabinet. I use Boss gt-8 at home (block of flats... cant play loud) so through that i can tell my opinnions.
First: I have been a Les Paul player for ages. The other guitar i use at the moment is a custom made (in finland) Les Paul with Gibson Burstbucker Pro pickups. They are very warm, lots of low end and the neck pickup is maby a bit too low end, because you can't play shit with the lowest strings and make it sound good with the neck pickup. The bridge pickup is very versatile (using the tone level...) and i find it one of the best pickups out there.
Now that i have played the Ibanez with the BKP's i found the sound a bit more crunchy and it separates the sounds great. Also these pickups don't pick so much noise when i take my hands off the strings.
The neck pickup is warm, with a very nice lead tone. I found it nice to play and also i can go to the seventh (the thickest) string and way back to frets 1,2,3 etc and still get a nice sound, what i can't find in my Les Paul.
But as said, i have not played the guitar through 5150 or Mesa etc...
Nikt owned this guitar for a quite long time, you should ask him about the pickups for more professional opinnion. He said to me he bought and chainged the pickups, so i guess he is the man to talk about this. All that i know is that this is the same pickup setup that Chris Broderick uses in his ibanez guitars.
777:
The guitar is in excellent shape, there is only a small dent in the back side of the body and one bigger dent next to the strap nut (back end of the body).
I love it!
Yeah wouldn't be in your best interest! 
For the good of the 7-string community though.... 
Even something similar, maybe different finish or something. Just a high-level piezo-loaded Floyd production 7-string would be badass. 
