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Originally Posted by pchilson
Are the Duncan Designed P90s in the Custom II the same dimensionally as other soap bar P90s?
Drop in replacement?
I've always eyed these Custom IIs with desire but have yet to pull the trigger on one. Hmmm....
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The pickups might be dimensionally the same. However, their method of mounting in the Squier Telecaster Custom II is to the pickguard, so there is a flat mounting bar underneath the pickup that the pickup is screwed to, and the screws that go through the pickguard screw into that bar.
I bought one of those stock Squier P-90s used and got the bar with it. I bought the other P-90 new through my local Fender dealer. The new pickup didn't come with the mounting bar, and my Fender dealer couldn't locate and order one of the mounting bars for me.
I used the one bar as a guide and fabricated another mounting bar from a strip of flat aluminum I found in a hardware store.
There's almost no room underneath the P-90 pickups for any extra material. I couldn't find wiring as skinny as the stock wire and the aluminum bar was slighty thicker than the stock brass-looking bar. So I carved the body out some more with a Dremel to make room for the thicker bar and thicker wiring.
I later found somewhat thinner wire from Stewmac. One day I'll take the pickguard off and redo it with the thinner wire, because I have some iffy grounds on the bottom of Alpha pots to fix anyway and the thinner wire is more flexible than the stuff I used.
I like the stock neck P-90 okay but I don't like the stock bridge P-90 as much, it's quite a bit hotter. I'd kinda like to find another P-90 with an output even cooler then the stock neck, put my old neck neck in the bridge and the cooler one in the neck.
But I put the Custom on a back burner and haven't messed around with it lately, I've been preferring to play my Teles with traditional Tele style single coils.