PAF in a P90

kimbo5150 · Post by **kimbo5150** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:26 am

Been trying to find someone who makes a PAF spec'd pickup but with the P90 look and size.
I have an Epiphone 56 Goldtop and the neck pickup on this thing is beautiful. It really surprised me! I find the bridge pickup to be just a little thin and underpowered for what I want to use it for so I thought I could have 2 guitars in one, P90 neck and PAF disguised as a P90 in the bridge.

Does anyone know of anyone who does/could do this pickup arrangement?

On a side note - noodling with the neck pickup through my JTM45 on slightly dirty with a slight delay really sounded close to Page's intro to Since Ive Been Lovin You. The p90 stays clear when rolled back unlike the burstbucker in the R8 I used to have.

Kim

chubs · Post by **chubs** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:42 am

Seymour Duncan makes the SM-2 and SM-3 which are mini-humbuckers.

They're normally used for guitars like the firebird, but the firebird sized humbuckers were originally designed to be humbuckers that would fit into routes already put into bodies for P-90 pickups... so there you go.

908ssp · Post by **908ssp** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:40 am

DiMarzio has made one for ages. I have a pair that are twenty years old never used.

kimbo5150 · Post by **kimbo5150** » Mon May 19, 2008 7:37 am

Thanks guys,
I probably was sorta hoping that someone would say that HighOrder or someone like that. I was wanting to basically have the pickup look identical to a P90 but have as close as possible tone to what people are saying about some of these boutique pickups.
Maybe just a higher powered P90 would get me closer to the traditional PAF type tone. What do you guys think?
Thanks
Kim