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At least one of the things he's done is to design his own bobbin to fit under the P-90 cover. Jason always felt like the stock P-90 didn't have enough power to generate an adequate magnetic field to really make it a worthwhile pickup and it didn't matter what you did to hot rod the stock pickup it still needed work and so he just redesigned the whole pickup. As a result his P-90 is in a class by itself. The thing that really impresses me about Jason is that I think he knows what he's looking for in the way of results long before he starts rewinding something and all of his work is in the direction of getting that result. If he can get it with known techniques and materials then he'll do it that way. If not he'll start all over and redesign the basic pickup. Brian -----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Shirkey Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:17 PM To: jazz_guitar@... Subject: Re: [jazz_guitar] Gibson Classic Les Paul 57s 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. I will...just need to find a guitar to put them in. 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 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links |
