Bare Knuckle Pickups (Bare Knuckle, or BKP) is a privately-owned business based in the South West of

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

, UK, specialising in hand-wound electric

guitar pickups A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instru ...

. The pickups are wound and made entirely by hand from high quality parts which are made in-house, and come with a lifetime warranty.Guitarist Magazine, May 2005 The company was founded in 2003 by Tim Mills, who had previously worked with Elkie Brooks and Iced Earth.

Pickups

Bare Knuckle produce a complete range of

humbuckers A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out the noisy interference picked up by coil pickups. In addition to electric guitar pickups, humbucking coils are sometimes used in d ...

, single coils and bass pickups pickups ranging from original vintage models through to contemporary pickups such as the award winning 'The Mule' humbucker, 'Nailbomb' humbucker, 'Mississippi Queen' humbucker-size P90 and 'Apache' single coils.

Awards

* Gold award to 'The Mule' and 'Apache' * Guitarist Choice award to 'PG Blues Set' * Golden M award to the 'Nailbomb' * Best Buy to the 'Warpig'

Artists

Artists who have used the company's products include

Propagandhi Propagandhi is a Canadian punk rock band formed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1986 by guitarist Chris Hannah and drummer Jord Samolesky. The band is currently located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and completed by bassist Todd Kowalski and guitari ...

Johnny Marr Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher, 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer. He first achieved fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. He has since performed with numerous ...

, Matt Bellamy,

Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz ...

, Claudio Sanchez,

Jon Schaffer Jon Ryan Schaffer (born March 15, 1968) is an American heavy metal musician. He is the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter of the Indiana-based heavy metal band Iced Earth, which he formed in 1985 under the name Purgatory. He is also the ...

, Gabe Mangold,

Rabea Massaad Robert Sutherland Chapman (born 14 June 1975) is an English musician, YouTuber, and the founder and co-owner of Chapman Guitars. Chapman is known for his popular instructional YouTube channel and as demonstrator of guitar equipment for Anderto ...

, Misha Mansoor, and Steve Stevens. Additionally, several artists have signature pickups customized by BNK, including Misha Mansoor of

Periphery (band) Periphery is an American progressive metal band formed in Washington, D.C. in 2005. Their musical style has been described as progressive metal, djent, and progressive metalcore. They are considered one of the pioneers of the djent movement wit ...

Juggernaut

Ragnarok model
Steve Stevens of Billy Idol's band
Rebel Yell model
Josh Smith of

Northlane Northlane are an Australian Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Sydney, formed in 2009. The band comprises guitarists Jon Deiley and Josh Smith, drummer Nic Pettersen and vocalist Marcus Bridge. Northlane have released six studio albums: ...

Impulse model
and Rabea Massaad of Toska and

Dorje (band) Dorje were an English rock band formed in 2012 under the name The Rob Chapman Band, however soon changed their name to Dorje. It was founded by Rob Chapman, Rabea Massaad, Dave Hollingworth and Ben Minal. Description 2007–2012: Formative ye ...

, th
Silo model
Bare Knuckle Pickups are also fitted by guitar manufacturers, such as

Fender Custom Shop The Fender Custom Shop is a division of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, housed within their headquarters complex in Corona, Riverside County, California. The Fender Custom Shop produces special-order guitars for customers through a Custo ...

Ibanez Guitars is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United Sta ...

, Manson Guitars, Blackmachine, and Peerless guitars.

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