Brian,
>They are not true P-90 though. Jason redesigned the pickup and put
his own pickup under the hood of the P-90 cover.
I had heard that, but I don't know enough about pickup design to know
what keeps them from being true P-90s. I believe they are potted,
while authentic P-90s are not. Other than that, though, I'm stumped. I
do know that both sets sound great.
Wow,you are using a lot of Lollars pickups but honestly you owe it
to yourself to try the HighWind Humbuckers.
I will...just need to find a guitar to put them in.
Are you using any of the Dave Stephens humbuckers? What抯 the story.
I have his original Vintage Lab set. I just had a set of VL2s put in a
Les Paul. I have his '58 and '59 JP sets on order. I have a set of his
Strat pickups also (I believe they are the '64 Mojo vintage models).
The short version of Dave's story is that he has taken the scientific
approach to recreating PAF pickups. He's done all kinds of metallurgic
analysis of old pickups. He studied tons of originals that he's been
able to rewind. He makes his own parts using high quality components
that most manufacturers don't (or can't) use (or get). I think a lot
of this info. is summarized on his YouTube page. He often includes
lengthy text before his videos that sum up a lot of the research he's
done. He also has a video that shows a tour of his "lab" (for lack of
a better word). Anyway, the bottom line is that his pickups also sound
great. He's definitely a maniac when it comes to researching PAFs.
Jeff
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