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"I’m just gonna warn you — these are the LOUDEST pickups I’ve ever heard in a guitar": Bare Knuckle Halcyon humbucker pickup review

Could the Halcyon humbucker be the forceful sonic voice you've been seeking?

Guitar World · Nov 13, 2025

“It came from how much timber had been taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: What's the secret behind the tone of Jimmy Page's legendary “Number One” Les Paul? Bare Knuckle founder Tim Mills had the chance to examine it and found out

Mills had the opportunity to analyze the highly-coveted guitar after Page sent the guitar to his workshop just before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion

Guitar World · Aug 14, 2025

“Most of the tone came from how much timber had taken off the neck, almost to Ibanez levels of thinness”: Bare Knuckle supremo Tim Mills reveals the tone secrets of Jimmy Page’s legendary ‘Number One’ Les Paul Standard

Mills was living the dream when he was asked to give Page's 1959 Les Paul an MOT before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion gig

MusicRadar · Aug 12, 2025

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“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

The guitarist behind the beloved U.K.-based artisan pickup brand, explains how he got started in the biz, the attention to detail that makes Bare Knuckle so good – and what's coming next

Guitar World · Aug 11, 2025

“This is no clichéd P.A.F.-repro pickup – it’s completely reinvigorated”: Bare Knuckle PolyPaf humbuckers review

Adam “Nolly” Getgood's signature humbucker redefines the O.G. classic for the 21st century

Guitar World · Mar 7, 2025

“He fell about laughing with glee as he tried them”: Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer has been honored with signature Bare Knuckles – the same pickups from his new Aristides offset

The high-output Halcyon humbuckers promise the power of active pickups with the benefits of passive designs

Guitar World · Feb 21, 2025

“This pickup could have come out of a late-’50s Gibson. If you had a guitar from that era with these pickups, everyone would be like, ‘Wow. That’s a badass-sounding Les Paul’”: How Adam “Nolly” Getgood and Bare Knuckle reinvented the PAF for a new era

Gibson’s PAF has to be the most-cloned pickup of all time, but what if it was used as a launching pad for a humbucker with more oomph? Getgood and Tim Mills of Bare Knuckle might just have the answer with the PolyPaf

Guitar World · Dec 10, 2024

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“Anyone with a troublesome Tele, whatever style youplay in, needs to hear these”: Bare Knuckle Nomads Set review

Tim Mills has done it again. The third collaboration between Bare Knuckle and Rabea Massaad might be the best yet

Guitar World · Nov 25, 2024

“There does seem to be something of an obsession with lighter guitars”: Do lighter electric guitars sound better?

The debate surrounding the effect of weight on electric guitars and tone is long-running and often divisive. Our panel of experts, er, weigh in

Guitar World · Apr 4, 2024

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