Any experience with Bulldog pickups?

PonchoGreg · September 2020

I've been browsing the site a few times and the offering looks good to me - good range, nice specs and reasonable prices.

But I don't see these discussed as often as oil city, Monty's, ox4, etc.

Any experiences, good or bad, with these?

Thanks!

longjaw · September 2020

Yes, I bought a pair of humbuckers off eBay years ago - a PAF+ bridge and PAF standard neck.

I've got a lot of quality humbucker pick-ups in my guitars (MoJo, Seymour Duncan, Di Marzio, Gibson, etc) and those Bulldogs sound the best to my ears.

DrBob · September 2020

Didn’t Hayden (Bulldog pickups) used to be active on here ?

guitars4you · September 2020

DrBob said:

Didn’t Hayden (Bulldog pickups) used to be active on here ?

I've not seen or spoken to him for a while but he certainly use to be on FB

SteveRobinson · September 2020

@Van_Hayden ;Last Active 9:34AM so he's still here!

Lovely chap, makes excellent pickups!

Van_Hayden · September 2020

Morning @SteveRobinson ;hope you’re well.

Yep still lurking in the shadows....

I tend to keep my head down & mind my own business but still here making pickups, amps & playing guitar! Been doing it a while and most of the forum discussions on my pickups disappeared along with the Music Radar forum!

PonchoGreg · September 2020

Ha - good to know! Nice to meet you @Van_Hayden , might hit you up with a few questions in the not-too-distant future (hopefully!)

cm01 · September 2020

My old Crinson Tele had a set of Bulldogs in it and it was the best sounding Tele I’ve ever heard by far ... definitely shouldn’t have sold it!

stan · September 2020

Bought a pair of humbuckers recently. right up there with the very best of them & reasonably priced to boot. he`ll tailor your pickups to suit your taste. wouldn`t bother going anywhere else now. and no, i`m not his mum Lol ...

PonchoGreg · September 2020

Which ones did you go for @stan ?

hassleham · September 2020

I have a set of Hot PAF's and they are lovely! Got them in a cheap superstrat at the moment but hoping to get a nice les paul to put them in eventually.

impmann · September 2020

I have a Hot PAF in my PRS... superb unit.

stan · September 2020

@PonchoGreg ; I went for the `Fat Pafs` option.

March · September 2020

I've had quite a few sets of Hayden's pickups and they're easily the equal of companies who are charging a lot more for a similar product, I currently have Bulldog's fitted to four of my guitars.

One particular little nugget I can regale about his pickups - I have a set of 60's Strat pickups (I think they may have been a prototype for what became Sweet 62 set) and ended up comparing to a friends prized 60's Strat. We could not hear a difference, those pickups totally capture the character and sound.

monquixote · September 2020

I had some in a US Strat and they were an improvement to the Tex Mex that came in the guitar.

Dave_Vader · September 2020

I've had a set of Bulldog Texas Floods in my Strat for the last decade and can confirm they are perfect in every way

Thanks Hayden

Van_Hayden · September 2020

Many thanks folks! If anybody needs anything pickup/Matamp related drop me a message.

@March ; Glad you like the ‘62, Gwyn Ashton says similar things so I must be doing something right....

@stan thanks very much - was that the set that I sent Horncastle way??

@impmann yep - I’ve got that set in my PRS. They work really well.

@hassleham was that the set you got years back??

@cm01 still got my Crinson. That’s not going anywhere!

@dave_vader thanks!

@ponchoGreg fire me a question anytime.

stan · September 2020

@Van_Hayden . Yes, Horncastle area it was . :-)

hassleham · September 2020

@Van_Hayden ; that's the ones; still have them in the same guitar

Van_Hayden · September 2020

stan said:

@Van_Hayden . Yes, Horncastle area it was . :-)

Not a million miles from where I grew up!

musteatbrain · September 2020

I bought a set of relatively high output humbuckers I custom ordered with some non-standard gauge wire 11 years ago and they are still my favourite pickups.
Lots of pickups have come and gone since then but these are great in my LP

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