favorite P90 guitar?

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Big Kenny said:
What a beautiful guitar! What a butt ugly pickguard. Seriously, looks like it would sing like a bird!
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Thanks! :)

Yeah, it's an amazing playing and sounding guitar. Terrapin Guitars custom-made the "brown shell" pickguard for me. The high gloss lacquer-finished maple neck is gorgeous, with lots of birdseyes. It sustains forever.
 
As soon as I get a chance, I'm going to undertake a Stratocaster modification project that will end with a Strat that has only a bridge P90 pickup, one volume control and one one tone control, and retaining the tremolo. If I can manage to find one of the Japanese market models that had just a bridge humbucker, I'd buy that, swap in a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat and be done with it. More likely, however, I'll just have to buy another Strat to strip down to the configuration I'd described earlier. If I start with a Fat Strat (HSS), it'll get a Duncan Phat Cat, and if I start with a typical (SSS) Strat, I'll go with a soap bar P90 (likely to be a Duncan).

Matt
 
just a thought:

GuitarFetish.com has humbucker-sized P90's, such as the Mean 90 and Dream 90 (among others).

So you could pick out a guitar you like and then drop in a pup you like.
 
For a budget way to get the P-90 tone:

Gibson released a Melody Maker "reissue" (quote marks " " because it had little in common with the original Melody Maker besides being really cheap) from about 2001-2006. It was pretty dorky looking; matte finish, straight sided narrow headstock, single dogear bridge P-90, no pickguard... However, it completely delivers in the tone and playability department. I liked it MUCH more than the actual LP Jr reissues from the same era (although the true Jr does look better). It has the P-90 mids down better than the pricey LP Jr, and you can find them used on Ebay for about $325-350.

Can't go wrong, and you might even earn a few points with the better half for saving a few bucks. :)
 
This One

P90's rock!.. They've got a sound all their own. junior demo
 

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The Fender TC-90 is another one that I like. I wish I had one of 'em, and maybe sometime in the future I will...I dunno...I hope.

Matt
 
Funny this thread just popped up, i ended up finding an SG classic used at a great price. Trouble is it is in NYC and i had to have a friend pick it up, so until i go to the city, she ships it, or she visits (weeks away) i get to be happy that i own, but can;t play my new guitar

Daav
 

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pikingrin said:
Try and find you an old Gibson Melody Maker, my uncle had one and his bitch of a "wife" sold it off as soon as he was in the ground when he died of brain cancer... I wish I would have been able to lay my hands on it! I've played around on one of the SGs loaded with them, and a LP faded... Neither one, IMO, came anywhere close to the sound of that old Melody Maker... YMMV
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I'll second that! I have a Gibson Melody Maker from about 1962. Got it from Mitch Easter along with an old Gibson GA-79-RVT in a trade for a 3M M-23 machine. It's the two-pickup model. It really is a great sounding guitar and amazingly light for a guitar with good sustain. Those pickups are great sounding pickups and also amazingly sensitive to induced noise from stray fields. I did swap out the original fixed, stop tailpiece for an adjustable Schaller so that I could get decent intonation. Good luck with whatever you decide!

Cheers,

Otto
 
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