Kinman Woodstock Plus + BJFE Pedals = Killer Tone

[nichcope]

A couple days ago, I put a set of Kinman Woodstock Plus pickups into my strat ran it PGC > HB > Tweed Deluxe.........WOW!!!! A friend of mine is in a touring band and is pretty up to speed on good tones. After hearing the first 3 notes of a song that I recorded, he was asking what gear I was using to get the sound! The bridge pickup has a really high output (and free of hum) that almost borders on P90. I love the way that all sorts of pickups interact with BJFE pedals, but there's something extra kick ass with the way the Kinman Woodstock Plus pickups sound. Probably has to do with the borderline P90ish style pickup because I believe that is Bjorn's pickup of choice (P90).

[Donner]

ah yes,,, I love Kinmans !! I had them in my no1 strat for years - but those were the original Kinmans - I havent tried the others yet, Ive been very curious about the Woodstocks as I they have a bit more high end clarity right??
Its a swamp ash maple neck and with the extra chunk in the bridge it reminded me alot of my Tele....

[nichcope]

Yeah definitely, funny you mention the tele. I actually was hanging out with my brother yesterday and he had a '66 tele with him and I had my strat with the Kinmans. We ran them both through a '60 Vibrolux and a Two Rock Custom Reverb combo and the tele sounded really good......... the strat sounded insanely good. The Kinman Woodstock plus' gave it much more high end clarity than the tele, but not in a thin way. I always thought to get more high end than a tele it would sound shrill/ear piercing, but it's not the case at all, the extra output that those pickups have actually adds some meat to the tone, probably by pushing the amp more, so you get an awesome high end and a fat strat tone, the best of both worlds. Side note....the Two Rock is not a bedroom amp, at low volumes many amps will kick its ass, but once you turn that amp up holy shite it's a monster. The clarity of that amp when it's cranked is amazing, every detail of your playing can be heard and if you play rhythm, every note of a chord is clear and distinct. Of course the overdrive sounds good on it, since it's based on Kimock's Dumble, but what really impressed me was the clarity of chords through that amp cranked.

Donner, are your pickups the Kinman Traditional Mk-II's? I think the MK-II's are the next ones I'm going to purchase. You know a pickup is good when you buy another guitar just so you have something to put replacement pickups in. Another strat on the way

[Donner]

ha yeah I had considered the same thing - but after a big swap around those classic Kinmans are now in a chambered mahogany strat body which scoops some of the mids and it sounds really good , and I matched up a normamal bridge humbucker ....
Two Rock cleans are wonderful - a buddy of mine had one - and its clean matched my Trace V4 bass amp (4 KT88s) which I guess is why he sold it then ; ] actually that reminds me of something....