Members u6crash Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 I haven't decided on pickups for my guitar build yet, but I plan to use three P90s. In my dream scenario, each of the three would look mildly different; maybe a staple P90 in the neck, standard in middle, and mock gold foil in the bridge (you can see here). I'd kind of like to get them all from the same place and I kind of think it would be cool to support a smaller startup like a one or two person operation. Is anyone in these forums making pickups? One candidate right now is Mojo Pickups in the UK. They are made to order and he does custom stuff. They aren't Guitar Fetish cheap, but aren't Seymour Duncan Custom Shop expensive. What sound am I looking for? I play in the bridge position most and like to start with a clean sound with a good amount of attack. I'll use pedals to distort it up from there. Appreciate any leads you folks can give me, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 I'm sure you will get lots of answers to this. The customer for one of the tele-clone that I'm building right now wanted a P-90 in the neck and standard single in the bridge and asked me to install these http://www.budzguitars.com/budzguitars/Home.html I trust his judgement and bought two sets - haven't had a chance to play them yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 GFS Dream 90s are really good - You might want to check out Iron Gear as well (UK based) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Les Paul Lover Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 Beside bareknuckle (excellent reputation) I've heard a lot of good from the Lundgren P90: http://lundgren.se/en/mics/p-90-e/ I have no direct experience though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 Put me in the "don't skimp on the pickups when you've spent so much effort on the guitar" camp. My defaults are Lindy Fralin, Tom Anderson, and TV Jones. Or you could spend a bunch of time wondering what it would have sounded like without that compromise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badpenguin Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 Lollar. nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Les Paul Lover Posted February 10, 2017 Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 I had a Fender Strat (mex) with iron gear pick ups, it sounded really good. Much much better than the other 3 mex Strat I temporarily owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted February 10, 2017 Author Members Share Posted February 10, 2017 Lollar. nuff said. They tick all the boxes in terms of looks. Silly as it sounds, I do want to have something visually different about each one and I could do it with their staple pickup, a standard alnico, and the gold foil. It would only set me back $455. That's really hard for me to justify when I don't have first hand experience with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted February 11, 2017 Members Share Posted February 11, 2017 I've been checking out their stuff, never tried anything from them, but I really like the clips I've heard. If the magnet swap doesn't work out on my Squier, I'm most likely going to order a set of their jailhouse pups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 11, 2017 Members Share Posted February 11, 2017 I promise to try the Fralins real soon now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted February 11, 2017 Author Members Share Posted February 11, 2017 One of the builders I know uses Fralins almost exclusively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed the Dog Posted February 12, 2017 Members Share Posted February 12, 2017 I really like the Gibson ones with the braided ground. I have a 2012 Melody Maker Special with two. Amazing. Gibson introduced a new style P90 in '14. Not the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members treedroppings Posted February 12, 2017 Members Share Posted February 12, 2017 gibsons pre-2012 are unchanged since the 60s IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members treedroppings Posted February 12, 2017 Members Share Posted February 12, 2017 ZHangbucker.com/p-90s.html makes pure handwound p90s the bobbin is in a vise and he winds it by hand.... I'm not joking! 140 to 190 dollars apiece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ancient Mariner Posted February 13, 2017 Members Share Posted February 13, 2017 Bryan Gunsher of http://bg-pups.com/ used to be a forum regular - might be worth having a chat with him. He would also wind/tweak to customer taste & requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted February 16, 2017 The list is extensive. A better question would be: "Who doesn't make good P90s?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted February 16, 2017 gibsons pre-2012 are unchanged since the 60s IMHO The P90s in my 1994 LP Special do sound bloody great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 16, 2017 Moderators Share Posted February 16, 2017 I haven't decided on pickups for my guitar build yet' date=' but I plan to use three P90s. In my dream scenario, each of the three would look mildly different; maybe a staple P90 in the neck, standard in middle, and mock gold foil in the bridge (you can see here). I'd kind of like to get them all from the same place and I kind of think it would be cool to support a smaller startup like a one or two person operation. Is anyone in these forums making pickups? One candidate right now is Mojo Pickups in the UK. They are made to order and he does custom stuff. They aren't Guitar Fetish cheap, but aren't Seymour Duncan Custom Shop expensive. What sound am I looking for? I play in the bridge position most and like to start with a clean sound with a good amount of attack. I'll use pedals to distort it up from there. Appreciate any leads you folks can give me, thanks! I have a set of Mojo's dogears. Good. Not better than Gibson I have a Lollar, very good, as good as Gibson The only one I do lust after, is a set of Harmonic Designs. IMHO, winders generally do one pickup style better than others, but I've come across very few duff P90s. The P90s in current Epiphones are really very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hellion_213 Posted February 16, 2017 Members Share Posted February 16, 2017 I may be over thinking, but with a Gold Foil bridge, pole middle, and staple neck, is it possible to run into a Jangly front end, dark middle, and bright neck kind of scenario where the switch wiring just became that much more important? And traditional wiring schemes may not be the best route? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted February 17, 2017 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2017 I have a set of Mojo's dogears. Good. Not better than Gibson I have a Lollar, very good, as good as Gibson The only one I do lust after, is a set of Harmonic Designs. IMHO, winders generally do one pickup style better than others, but I've come across very few duff P90s. The P90s in current Epiphones are really very good. The pickup Mojo makes that I'm most intrigued by is the Teisco Gold Foils. It's one of few they offer a sound clip for and is described as a personal favorite. It's not a P90, but the size looks close. I thought I might ask about it and see if I could either get it in a P90 form factor. On the other hand, I could pay a little more for the Lollar's and have them in hand much sooner. What pot values do you use with yours? I've seen a lot of discussion on this elsewhere. I might A/B them with 250k vs. 500k. A bit of a hassle, but then I'll know what I really want. It doesn't help that I'm going with a non-traditional wiring method of master volume and master tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted February 17, 2017 Author Members Share Posted February 17, 2017 I may be over thinking' date=' but with a Gold Foil bridge, pole middle, and staple neck, is it possible to run into a Jangly front end, dark middle, and bright neck kind of scenario where the switch wiring just became that much more important? And traditional wiring schemes may not be the best route?[/quote'] Good points. 90% of my playing is in the bridge. My wiring will be Strat combinations, but with a master volume and tone. If the combos of bridge/middle and middle/bridge aren't that great, I'll still have the option to play any of them alone. Since middle alone is the setup I use least, I'm kind of looking for something vanilla that can complement either the neck or bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pekelnik Posted February 18, 2017 Members Share Posted February 18, 2017 I have BKP-91s in my SG classic and it's now 9 years that I suffer from jaw dislocations every time I plug it in. I have guitars and my friends have guitars and so on and so on, but I've not heard anything like it. And you know how sometimes you hear an awesome sound but few weeks later you don't think it's that awesome really? Well this isn't that for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted February 20, 2017 Moderators Share Posted February 20, 2017 I've tried 250, 300s. Always use 500s now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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