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Originally Posted by SKATTERBRANE
Ah, I understand, but HOT is not PAF territory. I am not interested in making pickups for modern tone or metal. I am into the blues, and classic rock territory. Even jazz! But never 80s hair band stuff or metal. I can't make what I do not dig.
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Bro. Just a lil hint @ marketing here....It dosent make a rats ass what YOU dig...you are a manufacturer...you are supposed to supply what THE PUBLIC WANTS...W.B. sells the piss outta his Habanaros...uh, HOT humbuckers...seymore dosent sell only paf clones or Pearly gates 'buckers...he sells a ton of hotter wind 'buckers...ya see, if your gonna compete, ya gotta compete all across the board...hell if I only Plumbed what I wanted to, I'd only do water coolers and then I'd be outta business once everyone got thier cooler up and running, but no...I bite the bullet, and do service, rough plumbing...hell we do it all, most of it sucks but it does pay the bills, very well, I might add, and the phone never stops ringing...give them what thay want, grasshopper, and they will drive you crazy!!!...If you study this forum, you'll find ALOT of people are into Metal, Hard Rock, and even Classic Rock. A LOT of guys here want HOTTER pickups...they want that Grungy metal snarl...something they cant get from a 7.4 alnico-V 'bucker...so they hunt down the hotties and that's where they spend thier $$...Just My Humble Opinion..I am by no means a marketing Genius, But, I did come up with the idea of Jonesy flippin his T-Shirts on here, and he sold a buttload of 'em, and I have been in business, profitably, for sometime now, with no end in site...I give 'em what they want...some people dont know what they want, and it's up to us, as professionals, to make suggestions, ya can't tell a guy that wants to bang out Death Metal, that he can get the bite and snarl outta a 7.3-7.8 'bucker, he wont buy it, but ya can tell him ya can wind him up a set of 12's and he'll shit hisself when he plugs it in....those he'll pay for...Think about it, Bro. you dont buy hot pickups because ya dont like 'em...They dont buy paf clones because they dont like 'em, Personnaly, I love a good paf tone...I dont want anything hotter than 8.0-8.5 in my axe, but thats just me....And this is just MHO...to be taken with the proverbial "grain of salt"...
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