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I wanted to heat up a hot dog before going to the Orlando Guitar Expo. Many of you are aware that I have posted that I do not eat processed meats. That I am a shitty chef. But still manage to cook for my family each and every day and have sit down meals every night. Well, the microwave went bang and my hot dog was cold after 30 seconds in it. I wondered what to do and was quite frankly at a loss for ideas. It's been thirty years that I've enjoyed Microwave. So I got out a 2 quart pot, put in a little water, laid a colander over the steaming water. Placed said dog and a bun in the steam. Done in five. So it wasn't 30 seconds and done. But it was 5 and done. So my question for you engineers and smart people; What do I save, other than time, for running a 1000 watt microwave for one minute as apposed to a small eye on the stove for 5 minutes? I think the stove top is probably healthier if you can call a dog healthy. Why??? because there are no microwaves???? My wife went to the grocery this evening and got some Digeorno pizzas. Why??? because she didn't know how to warm left overs without a microwave. Degeornos in the oven @ 400 degrees @ 20 minutes. She would have cooked them anyway. But the oven was still warm so I put some leftover lemmon pepper chicki from last night in a skillet and placed them in the oven. Already spent energy heated the skillet and chicki up. opened the door after the chicki was bubblin' and let the heat out into the house. Already spent energy mind you. Yeah, so I'm frugal. Not cheap. Just thinking about weather I should replace a microwave @ 400 bucks or buy a guitar with it. All a microwave is good for is reheating things in 30 seconds. You smart guys tell me what the BTU expense of heating a cup of water in a microwave as apposed to on the stove. You health nutz tell me what the ill effects of microwave vs convection heat may be. Make sense?

Have you listened to the sound clips on the bareknuckles site? The blackdog sounds awesome. I want to buy a humbucker equipped guitar just to put the mule/blackdog combo in it. https://bareknucklepickups.co.uk/main/pickups.php?cat=humbuckers&sub=vintage_hot&pickup=black_dog Email Tim at Bareknuckles and see what he says ... Several people at the HFC have put the texas/BBQ combo in their FM's and just totally loved them. I must admit it's a perfectly good combo and sounds much better than the stock 59/JB ... I tried it and liked the texas neck but like I said the BBQ sounded very 70's classic rock and while that could actually be considered a good thing depending, not exactly what I was looking for. Plus with THE BBQ I didnt feel like there was enough oomph believe it or not. So I went with the Muy Grande which I liked much better. Maybe I was used to the great variance of the 59/JB combo? I dunno. The texas/muy grande combo is a good one in my opinion and the texas/bbq is also good, better that the SD's by a good margin. If you can pick up a used set for cheap on ebay, here or the gear page by all means buy them and check em out for yourself. I think I paid $90 each for the texas, BBQ and $150 for the Muy Grande. Plus you can always sell them for the price you payed. I understand your concern about the bridge pickup not having enough power ... as you can see I went from the fairly powerful BBQ to the even more powerful Muy grande but the lower output pickups just have so much more detail, they really sound beautiful. Dont forget it depends on your amp, pedals and playing style also. Good luck!