GREEN FINGERS
How did the Bethnal Green project start?
“It all started when I went over to a guy’s house who was helping me out some other vintage stuff. He had been commissioned to try to sell the ‘Greeny’ guitar in the UK, but in the end he couldn’t do it, so it went back to America. Then, of course, it ended up with Kirk Hammett. So he literally said to me, ‘Matt, come and have a look at this…” and he got ‘Greeny’ out. I got to play it and hear it and then he let me take the control plate off, take some readings, all that kind of stuff – although I couldn’t take the actual pickups apart, understandably.
“I took the DC resistance and Gauss readings as a starting point then went on a journey with them, tweaking until I got the goosebumps”
“So the idea behind the Bethnal Green humbucker set was just trying to recreate the sound of those pickups. The thing that really jumped out at me when I inspected the Greeny pickups was that, because the neck pickup is so different from the bridge one, the out-of-phase sound [of both pickups
