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Post subject: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:21 am
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I've seen posts on installing a p90 in neck position
on a Tele, but not many details. When installed, did you keep
the same bridge and other components?
I'm looking at a 5% underwound Fralin. Any suggestions?
It'll be going in an American FSR with greasetone pots.


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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:28 am
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brass saddle wrote:
I've seen posts on installing a p90 in neck position
on a Tele, but not many details. When installed, did you keep
the same bridge and other components?
I'm looking at a 5% underwound Fralin. Any suggestions?
It'll be going in an American FSR with greasetone pots.


Which pickup, which tele? On a Custom Tele?
or one of the modern HH Teles?

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:52 am
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brass saddle wrote:
I've seen posts on installing a p90 in neck position
on a Tele, but not many details. When installed, did you keep
the same bridge and other components?
I'm looking at a 5% underwound Fralin. Any suggestions?
It'll be going in an American FSR with greasetone pots.


Welcome.

You can certainly keep all the other components with no detriment. However, if your volume pot is a 250K, the P-90 MAY sound a bit 'tubby'. If it doesn't, fine. If it does, to clear this up, replace the volume pot with a 500K one. And to keep the bridge pickup from now sounding 'anemic', wire a 470K resistor to the terminal of the pickup selector switch where your bridge pickup is wired with the other side (tail) of the resistor to ground. This will make the bridge pickup continue to electronically 'see' a 250K (or close enough to it) pot.

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:04 am
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Martian wrote:
brass saddle wrote:
I've seen posts on installing a p90 in neck position
on a Tele, but not many details. When installed, did you keep
the same bridge and other components?
I'm looking at a 5% underwound Fralin. Any suggestions?
It'll be going in an American FSR with greasetone pots.


Welcome.

You can certainly keep all the other components with no detriment. However, if your volume pot is a 250K, the P-90 MAY sound a bit 'tubby'. If it doesn't, fine. If it does, to clear this up, replace the volume pot with a 500K one. And to keep the bridge pickup from now sounding 'anemic', wire a 470K resistor to the terminal of the pickup selector switch where your bridge pickup is wired with the other side (tail) of the resistor to ground. This will make the bridge pickup continue to electronically 'see' a 250K (or close enough to it) pot.



Thanks My Favorite Martian!!!
Good to know the possibilities.
Which Tele's can have a P-90 without a pickguard change?
The Custom Tele or the newer HH Tele?
Toppscore :)

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:19 am
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Toppscore wrote:
Martian wrote:
brass saddle wrote:
I've seen posts on installing a p90 in neck position
on a Tele, but not many details. When installed, did you keep
the same bridge and other components?
I'm looking at a 5% underwound Fralin. Any suggestions?
It'll be going in an American FSR with greasetone pots.


Welcome.

You can certainly keep all the other components with no detriment. However, if your volume pot is a 250K, the P-90 MAY sound a bit 'tubby'. If it doesn't, fine. If it does, to clear this up, replace the volume pot with a 500K one. And to keep the bridge pickup from now sounding 'anemic', wire a 470K resistor to the terminal of the pickup selector switch where your bridge pickup is wired with the other side (tail) of the resistor to ground. This will make the bridge pickup continue to electronically 'see' a 250K (or close enough to it) pot.



Thanks My Favorite Martian!!!
Good to know the possibilities.
Which Tele's can have a P-90 without a pickguard change?
The Custom Tele or the newer HH Tele?
Toppscore :)


Anytime!

Frankly, I'm not up on all the newer mutations of Teles. However, if there are Teles which come stock nowadays with a P-90 shaped neck pickup, well, then there's your answer. Aside from this, virtually any pickguard would have to be custom cut to accommodate a P-90 shaped pickup.

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:08 am
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"Frankly, I'm not up on all the newer mutations of Teles. However, if there are Teles which come stock nowadays with a P-90 shaped neck pickup, well, then there's your answer. Aside from this, virtually any pickguard would have to be custom cut to accommodate a P-90 shaped pickup."


My mind is thinking about the Teles who's single coil pickups
fit inside the metal bridge plate. But, if wider humbuckers are
desired, you are right, a different bridge setup is needed.

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 6:30 am
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Toppscore wrote:
"Frankly, I'm not up on all the newer mutations of Teles. However, if there are Teles which come stock nowadays with a P-90 shaped neck pickup, well, then there's your answer. Aside from this, virtually any pickguard would have to be custom cut to accommodate a P-90 shaped pickup."


My mind is thinking about the Teles who's single coil pickups
fit inside the metal bridge plate. But, if wider humbuckers are
desired, you are right, a different bridge setup is needed.


Just like a P-90, a 'traditional' Tele bridge pickup is a unique shape unto itself. Therefore, a different bridge setup would surely be required.

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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:50 pm
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Toppscore, why are you clouding the issue by talking about bridge position pickups?

brass saddle wants to put a Fralin 5% underwound P90 in the neck position of his Tele and keep whatever pickup he has in the bridge position as it is. So the only thing that absolutely has to change is the pickup opening in the pickguard. The body's neck pickup cavity might need to be routed (depending on the model) and the volume pot might need to be changed depending on taste.


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Post subject: Re: P90 neck pickup
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 9:48 pm
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strayedstrater wrote:
Toppscore, why are you clouding the issue by talking about bridge position pickups?

brass saddle wants to put a Fralin 5% underwound P90 in the neck position of his Tele and keep whatever pickup he has in the bridge position as it is. So the only thing that absolutely has to change is the pickup opening in the pickguard. The body's neck pickup cavity might need to be routed (depending on the model) and the volume pot might need to be changed depending on taste.



Thanks. I'll be more clear and de-cloud.
Very few instruments have a single coil at the bridge and a humbucker at the neck.
IMHO, depending upon which guitar the OP has, and what the OP wants, or what the OP
may need but does not know, yet . . . . . I feel the bridge can/should be considered as well.

And, if considered, then pickguard & bridge plate changes/possibilities
may or may not come into consdieration.

Hope this helps. Still cloudy?
Toppscore 8)

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