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No pics unfortunately, yet, because my camera is out of batteries and I don't have any sitting around the house. And I'm not about to stop playing these awesome pickups!
The Nailbomb I put in my Charvel has a camo cover, looks sweet, set it up with a push-pull pot so I have series and parallel options.. sounds fantastic in either mode. It's not the most saturated compressed pickup out there. It reminds me a lot of a VHT amp actually. More of the guitar's natural character and dynamics are coming through and the pick attack is more pronounced, so it has a snappier sound. But somehow, it is still really high output.. I have played higher output pickups for sure, but never any quite this articulate. EMGs and Blackouts don't even have as sharp of attack as this pup does, but they do have more saturated and gainier sounding sustained notes. Then again, they can't approach the dynamics this thing has and don't let each note in a chord ring out so clearly.

The real story is the Nailbomb 7. I am honestly not used to pickups sounding this good in a 7 string. Typically they seem to lack the lower mids - not something you miss riffing on the low B, but something I have always been bothered by when playing on the low E. Things just sound hollower in that region but this pickup does not have that problem. Its like Tim at Bareknuckle somehow found a way to magically make a 7 string pickup sound just like a 6 string pickup without getting muddy on the low B. This thing has the same attack and clarity as the 6 string version, but seems to be thicker on the sustained notes. That might be because I have it set higher than the other one, but I will probably back it off. It seriously is the best sounding 7 string pickup I have heard, and I used to have an S7320 with a Lundgren in it.

As far as that comparison goes, I was a fan of the Lundgren for awhile but it just didn't grow on me. Everyone says it is dynamic and this and that, but I didn't think it was. The Nailbomb has it totally beat in that department. The Lundgren was exactly what everyone compares it to - a passive EMG 81-7 - with all the same drawbacks (no dynamics) and advantages (ultra high output and punchy attack) except it had the added problem of being insanely crazily ice pick bright (and that was in a mahogany guitar with rosewood board). The Nailbomb, IMO, is the much better pickup.