LP Jr. & P-100's

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I recently test drove a Les Paul Jr. Lite. I took it off the wall because I liked the double cut. After about 15 minutes of noodling, I caught myself wanting the guitar.

I'm doing as much research as possible on the guitar, and I'm finding a lot of people mercilessly bashing the P-100 stack pick-ups. I guess I can't expect them to sound like authentic P-90s, but are they themselves so bad? Seemed to me they'd complement my strat and tele's. Those, however, are all offshore Fenders with pickups of questionable quality. I want my next guitar to have the good pick-ups when I buy it.

I know I should just trust my ears. Guess I just don't want to feel duped when I'm yanking them out of a month-old guitar. Any advice?
 
There is nothing wrong with The LP Jr's. I bought one (LP Jr Special) last year and I have no complaints about it. The P-100 PUs will give you plenty of Gibson growl.

I don't buy what people say about "cheap" PUs. All of them are made on the same kind of machines, with the same kind of wire and the same kind of magnets. I think the P-100s sound every bit as good as the P-90s did. But, they don't hum like the P-90s did.
 
Thanks for the reply, 64.

I think I can stand the trade-off of a little less tone for absolutely no hum.

I think there is a point at which people get carried away by the quest for tone. Certainly Eric Johnson is full of shit in claiming he can tell the difference in tone by the brand of batteries in his pedals (or whatever the legend is). No doubt, there is a point of diminishing returns in pick-up swapping--that's half the reason I don't want to have to do it.

Anybody else try the P-100s?
 
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