Oh, man. I guess I never thought that you'd actually read anything I wrote here and hope I haven't said anything too cruel about the names or anything, I'll try and hide behind knowing that I have said repeatedly that you make the best pickups of anyone and I'll continue to say that. Hopefully I've said nice things about the support as well, Joe has been very helpful to me at a couple of bone-headed times of mine so be sure to let him know.Atilla the Hum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:47 pmG'day fellas, Chris Kinman here. I've become aware that some don't care for the names Punk-Tang and Grunge-Tank for my Mustang pickups. When I came up with those names I wanted to link the musical genre with the type of pickup and it seemed a no brainer, especially when I just couldn't think of anything else that satisfied the brief for naming protocol. After all it worked for my Jazzmaster models but I do admit that Punk-Tang sounded somewhat ... er ... cringeworthy!!! So here I am asking for suggestions from all you nice people who said otherwise nice things about my pickups as well as those who criticized the present names.
The brief is to link the musical genre with the type of pickup and not be cringe-worthy. Alternately just a name that bears a loose association with Punk and (or not) Mustang. If I like your suggestion and I adopt it I'll give you a nice discount on any Kinman product you fancy.
So let's hear your suggestions. CK
Over to the names, you may not know this, but "tang" is older American 70's mustache slang for, no getting around it, "pussy". For instance, here's noted 70's mustache asshole Ted Nugent with his awful song "Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang".
So my suggestion is why bother with the name of the guitar? We go to the site, we click on the link for "Mustang" or "Jazzmaster", so we know we are looking at those kinds of pickups.
You think of punk, you think of New York or London. You think of grunge, you think of Seattle. So if you want to conjure up that imagery, and why not, why not just call the pickups "London Punk" and "Seattle Grunge"? "Chicago Blues"?
An alternative would be to just describe the pickups. I started with you on the somewhat pornographic sounding "Thickmasters", and you use the terms "dark" and "syrupy" with those on the site, which I've used as well when describing them compared to the Surfmasters ("LA Surf?"), so why not just call them Dark Syrup Jazzmaster pickups? The name itself tells you what you are going to be getting.
Hope this is somewhat helpful, hope I haven't been too rude- I genuinely do think you make the best pickups and I've tried them all and yours will be the only ones I consider on my future guitars. Welcome to the show.