“Working on Jimmy Page’s guitar was bucket list stuff for me”: Bare Knuckle’s Tim Mills on how he built the biggest indie pickup brand in the world – and why Page’s ‘Number One’ Les Paul sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Strat

Tim Mills of Bare Knuckle pickups sits with his arms folded in his workshop/office.

In the seventies, Larry DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan broadened the tonal horizons for the electric guitar community by developing their own pickups to be retrofitted onto instruments made by other companies.

To this day, they are still very much masters of their trade, with innovations to suit just about any kind of player, from low-output passives for purists to enhanced firepower for higher-gain thrill-seekers – and everything in between.