Recommend P90's

Kojoflo · Oct 24, 2016

I've got a project going on, want to gut a gold top and put in some P90's. I want real abrasive bark. I've been recommended Bare knuckles supermassive P90's. Anyone got any others to have a look at?

renderit · Oct 24, 2016

Call Jon (Mr. Thrōbak). He can wind them any way you want. He fixed my Collings City Limits. Took it from pretty to a beautiful woody little monster using his set made for Specials. He knew what I needed by talking to me. He knows his chit.

Zentar · Oct 25, 2016

Try the 1st one made: Gibson P90s. Everything else is a copy of these. I have a set in both a solid body and hollowbody. Yea they bark.
Also I like the Kent Armstrong P90. I really like these. They were a real surprise and an accidental discovery. Plus they cost half what Gibby P90s cost yet they are for real.

Big Al · Oct 25, 2016

If I need more grunt, bark or growl, I find an amp or pedal that'll make that happen.

thejaf · Oct 25, 2016

I put some SD "Hot P90s" in a 70s Deluxe a while ago, and they were just as you described. Clear but also fat, bold, and hairy. I so want another Les Paul with P90 cavities just to have another one of these pickups.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/hot-p90-bridge

fred dons · Oct 25, 2016

I'm a big fan of Ron Thorn's staples, I have several sets but the one set in my Hamer studio really shows how good it is, that guitar has a seymour duncan p90 in the bridge position and the Thorn in the neck and I used to like the bridge pickup but it sound thin and whimpy in comparison
they are not as deep as regular staples, just the normal p90 dimensions
http://www.thornguitars.com/gt90pu-htm/gt90pu.htm

gmann · Nov 2, 2016

Try Wolfetones Mean/Meaner or Meaner/Meanest set. These will do it. After that it's up to the amp.

LtKojak · Nov 2, 2016

gmann said:
Try Wolfetones Mean/Meaner

+ 1.

It doesn't get any better than those.

HTH,

captainvideo · Nov 2, 2016

I picked up a used R4 two months ago that has Van Zandt P-90s. They sound killer, just like East-West.
I've also heard the the stock ones get the job done too.

TM1 · Nov 2, 2016

Zentar said:
Try the 1st one made: Gibson P90s. Everything else is a copy of these. I have a set in both a solid body and hollowbody. Yea they bark.
Also I like the Kent Armstrong P90. I really like these. They were a real surprise and an accidental discovery. Plus they cost half what Gibby P90s cost yet they are for real.

Well the big problem there is Gibson does Not make P-90's like they did in the `50's or `60's. ThroBak's are the ones! That's what I have in my R-4

flatdream · Apr 12, 2020

I go with the Mojo pickups (uk) now. I love it.
I used to have Amalfitanos they are really good too but very hot. Like a texas special P90.
Staples are great too if you like more crispiness and definition.

Recommend P90's

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