P90 Pickers...

For anyone with a P90 equipped Tele. Homebuilt or other. All welcome.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk13/mhainz/redtele2.jpg

Mine with a Phat Cat.

Both of these are scratch builds...

http://www.apolloguitars.ca/images/raz006.jpg

http://www.apolloguitars.ca/images/abrkr005.jpg

Phat Cat P-90 in this one. Love it!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e308/XKnight/Liquid%20Metal%20T/DSC03381.jpg?t=1296251163

Oh, yeah, count me in.

My Logan Custom solidbody: Mahogany body with Bob's Darkened Mahogany stain, nitro-finished; B/W/B 3-ply pickguard; P-90 neck pup w/ black cover, which against the "blackground" of the blackguard I think gives a stealth pup, quasi-Esquire look; Birdseye Maple neck & board, with amber tint; gold appointments to accentuate the gold tones in the woods.

indoor shot
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/518/P1010040_3_.jpg

outdoor shot
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/500/IMG_0172b.jpg

I hope to join this club some day soon....

Phat Cat P-90 in this one. Love it!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e308/XKnight/Liquid%20Metal%20T/DSC03381.jpg?t=1296251163


Okay, forget about the Phat Cat for a moment. What's the story on this guitar? Is the fretboard ebony or just a dark rosewood? I like the contrasting color scheme of silver body to the dark fretboard. And what's up with that body? It looks like a silver-plated Ruffles potato chip! :shock: :razz: Is that some optical illusion in the pic, or am I seeing that right?

I'm in:

http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/1070/IMG_4637.JPG

My first body build. I love playing this guitar, named it "Popeye". Very unique sound. I almost didn't put a tone control on it, but now I'm glad I did.

http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz167/hankstank/bodycloseup.jpg

I'm a member-1994 MIM Telecaster Special w/ Epi Coronet P90 in the neck, SD Hot Tele Stack in the bridge. Mighty Mite flat 6 saddle bridge, Schaller locking tuners, pull boost tone pot for bridge P/U, my #1 most versatile guitar. I should use it on every gig, but I have too many toys!
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/telecaster-discussion-forum/70053d1295379780-my-1994-mim-fat-tele-aredtele-jpghttp://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/telecaster-discussion-forum/70054d1295379780-my-1994-mim-fat-tele-aredtele2-jpg

with p-90's
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*the black one's a Crook w/g bender. Standard tele pkups.

A Strat with P90s... cool!

http://www.liquidmetalguitars.com/

Okay, forget about the Phat Cat for a moment. What's the story on this guitar? Is the fretboard ebony or just a dark rosewood? I like the contrasting color scheme of silver body to the dark fretboard. And what's up with that body? It looks like a silver-plated Ruffles potato chip! :shock: :razz: Is that some optical illusion in the pic, or am I seeing that right?

Thanks for the interest. The body is CNC machined out of a single block of aircraft aluminum. No optical illusion, it looks just like the pic. Fingerboard is Ebony with a 12"radius and stainless steel frets. The pups are custom wound Seymour Duncans, saddles and nut are by Graphtech. The body is hollowed out to reduce weight and this one comes in at 8 pounds. It's a great sounding and feeling guitar.

The link above shows the builder, Liquid Metal Guitars (LMG) out of Canada.

The body is CNC machined out of a single block of aircraft aluminum.

A+++ Would drool again.

Here's mine:

http://lonelyfridge.com/images/blog/telecaster/finished_front_600.jpg

It's milled from solid ...walnutiminum. Yes, that's it.

Had an extra G&L neck so I slapped this together.

SteveO that's got some spectacular grain. Very nice!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/__naHXB8VTUc/S_xkVefVluI/AAAAAAAADaA/KgZpxIX9jgA/s512/IMG_1284.JPG

They are fun.
Let's play 'em ! :cool:


JJ

I'm in!

My first body build. I love playing this guitar, named it "Popeye". Very unique sound. I almost didn't put a tone control on it, but now I'm glad I did.

http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz167/hankstank/bodycloseup.jpg

http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/zz167/hankstank/Philodone-1.jpg

I gave Popeye to my son. Missed the P-90 esquire thing, so I built this one, name of "Philo". One-piece body from salvage redwood, 1 3/4" Warmoth neck. Built for comfort, I ain't got no speed.

some more P90's...:grin:...

Warman UK PUs.... they do the job for me.... good bang for the bucks,,,:wink:

I tend to use the P90 bridge pu's on these two more than regular tele bridge pu's on my other teles... I like the fatter sounds back there.... :twisted:

I'm not that interested in twangy uber treble bridge pu/s... and play neck pu's mostly...:roll:

P90's are my fav! This spring when bonus check time comes around I plan on looking into either a SG or Les Paul with P90's.

My P90's. :)

Apologies, also not a Tele, but nearly as good. From '56.
This weekend I'm starting a couple of P90 Teles + looking forward to letting rip with them,
best, tony

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I have the same guitar, but mine is the vintage yellowish color. Awesome, awesome guitars!

My favorite P90 set up yet...

151084

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All of my teles have P90s. I use Seymour Duncan Antiquities, the first two are Warmoth swamp ash bodies, the first has a Fender maple neck, the second is a highly flamed Warmoth maple neck. The third is Korina Bloodwood, my Voodoo Priestess. Warmoth korina body capped with bloodwood. Warmoth bloodwood neck, reverse headstock, rosewood fretboard and canary skunk stripe.

Since different size P90ish pickups are clearly welcome here, both my partscasters qualify.

http://thestevieboy.tripod.com/goldiesun.jpg

http://thestevieboy.tripod.com/partshdbody.jpg

All Harmonic Design. Both have their S90 bridge pickups, the standard tele size pickup in the gold thinline is a Super Chrome, and the humbucker sized one in the sunburst is the Z90.

Anyone else here try to to build a P90? I ordered the vintage p90 set from stewmac a while back and threw it on my MP jaguar. I used a thicker copper wire and only about 7300 rotations. Gives me an awesome twangy clean sound and crunchy but defined gain sound. I'll post a picture soon.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry. - John Lennon

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All of my teles have P90s. I use Seymour Duncan Antiquities, the first two are Warmoth swamp ash bodies, the first has a Fender maple neck, the second is a highly flamed Warmoth maple neck. The third is Korina Bloodwood, my Voodoo Priestess. Warmoth korina body capped with bloodwood. Warmoth bloodwood neck, reverse headstock, rosewood fretboard and canary skunk stripe.

JeffBlue, those are some eye-catching P-90 equipped Teles. :grin:

I've never seen a 3 pickup configuration quite like those second two. Do you use a standard 3-way switch with those? So what tones does this configuration give you?

Just finished playing my Logan Custom mahogany with the P-90 neck pup (see post #4 in this thread for pics and description), and so now I'm thinking of this thread.

I'm wondering how the balance and tones works for those of you with different pickup configurations than mine (vintage style Tele bridge pup w/ P-90 neck). And speaking of that, my question to you still stands, Jeffblue. I'm curious to know how those Teles w/ a P-90 in the middle work for you.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I guess you Canadians have already had your day of thanks (when is that for you again?), and maybe others in this thread are from nations that give thanks on a different day, or don't have an official national day of thanks, but...

Happy Thanksgiving!

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http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c141/mtsweeney/Guitars/esq2.jpg
Harmonic Design S-90

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k233/fungusyoung/Gear/2011-08-09172842.jpg

rio grande dirty harrys

http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx333/furtherpale/IMG_1633.jpg

I thought the Dirty Harry was a humbucker pickup. Did some searching, and now I see that it can also refer to a Rio Grande Tele neck pup as well. They bill it as a Dirty Harry for Tele Neck RWRP, but describe it as "emulat[ing] the tonal characteristics of a P-90 pickup, but made for a Telecaster bridge opening." So I assume this pup can be used in either bridge or neck. You said "dirty harrys" (plural), so does that mean you have one in the bridge and one in the neck?

i guess they are like the other above pups above... they sound as p90ish you can get in tele size.

they make a bridge and neck pup for tele.... and sound awesome... i can get tele twang to p-90 bark and drowl with the volume knob

doesn't sound exactly like p-90's... but i didnt want them to

http://www.riograndepickups.com/scart/ProductPage.asp?ImageLink=DHTSB&ProductName=For+Tele
http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx333/furtherpale/IMG_1634.jpg

Thanks for the explanation.

Home brew.
Wired 50s' style.
Fralin Low noise P-90.
Lightning Bar bridge.
Very loud unplugged.
Is what it is.....poor mans BFG tribute.


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fungusyoung, that second Creston sure is a looker.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k233/fungusyoung/IMG_0416.jpg

I've heard of Crestons guitars, but haven't heard them. Looked on his website as well as on YouTube, not much luck. Just promotional vids. He uses Lollar P-90s, doesn't he?

My 2012 FSR blacktop

^^^^ Thumbs up for posting that!!! ^^^^

NO problem. I have a standard MIM Black tele with a P90 in the neck too but it looks pretty much like this one, cept this ones alot prettier to look at

love them P90s
here's mine w/ the "extra tone" option
Peace - Deeve

Woa! :shock: I've never seen a guitar that had control knobs directly in line with the pickups before. If I were playing that, I'd be making involuntary Tone and/or Volume changes all the time. :oops: How do you pick/strum it? :confused:

Hey Guys,

I didn't realize that there was a P90 club! I am glad to be a member. Although, not my first P90 guitar, I just finished a build with a killer PX-90 from Phil X and Arcane Pickups.

Here's a photo of it:
http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz92/Doth72/Tele%20Junior/2C3B44E7-13D2-4A15-8F66-D374A0EADDAD-323-000000217573D120.jpg

Click Here (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaster-discussion-forum/333700-telecaster-junior-build.html) for the thread.

Here is my review of the PX-90:
"PX-90 Pickup Review

The pickup is flat out amazing. Built in a partnership with Phil X and Arcane Pickups, this is an outstanding P90. This pickup has 12.13k resistance and is a rock monster. It's rude and rowdy, however it always has an inherit clarity that cuts right through in any gain setting. You hear each note clearly. It is *extremely* responsive to the volume and tone positions. Backing off the tone gives it the fullness and "woman tone" of a neck pickup. Back off the volume, and the pickup cleans up very nicely. Although it is a high power P90, it is very quiet and easily controlled. The PX-90 is very touch sensitive, you can hear the subtlety of your fingers and their attack. I have a Lollar 5% P90 in another build, I love the Lollar, but the PX-90 blows it out of the water.

In addition, for this application, we put a push/pull in the tone pot that takes the tone control right out of the circuit when engaged, effectively giving me immediate access to two tone settings."

And here is a photo of my other P90 Tele (Lollar 5% Overwound)
http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz92/Doth72/El%20Cabron/07a8c8f2.jpg

Thanks,
Don

Good lookin' P-90 Teles, both of 'em. :grin:

I especially like the complementary/contrasting look of the second one, with the maple fretboard to black body with the cream colored soapbar. I can't tell for sure from the pic...is it just single bound, or double?

Good lookin' P-90 Teles, both of 'em. :grin:

I especially like the complementary/contrasting look of the second one, with the maple fretboard to black body with the cream colored soapbar. I can't tell for sure from the pic...is it just single bound, or double?

Thank you so much! It's double bound.

Here are a few more.

Oh, man, that's a sweet lookin' guitar! :mrgreen: I'm a sucker for complementary/contrasting features and appointments on a Tele, and that guitar has it in spades. The cream colored binding looks to be a perfect match for the soapbar.

Oh, man, that's a sweet lookin' guitar! :mrgreen: I'm a sucker for complementary/contrasting features and appointments on a Tele, and that guitar has it in spades. The cream colored binding looks to be a perfect match for the soapbar.

Thank you LGOberean, the paint is awesome and was a applied by forum member an vendor Rhomco. So awesome to work with.

Don

Thanks, Don. And just call me Larry.

Merry Christmas, fellow P-90 fans. I'll be out of town for a couple days, so I wanted to express my Christmas wishes to all before I signed off for a while.

fungusyoung, that second Creston sure is a looker.

I've heard of Crestons guitars, but haven't heard them. Looked on his website as well as on YouTube, not much luck. Just promotional vids. He uses Lollar P-90s, doesn't he?

Thanks!

And, yes, Creston prefers Lollars, which works for me as I was already a huge fan of his pups before owning any Creston builds.

My Crestons are incredible players. Total GAS killers too.

Tres Recogida Especial (pronounced recoheeda means 3 pickup special)
Pine body, I made the stainless steel control plate, neck plate and B/W/B pickguard, Allparts TMO-fat neck with Planet Waves locking tuners, brass ferrule bar, 5 way switch, push pull tone pot and a Big D Varitone. The neck + middle and middle + bridge are out of phase for more tone options. The finish is ReRanch Shoreline Gold nitro and Behlens clear nitro with a couple of drops of honey amber transtint.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/tele-home-depot/51920d1276467866-tres-recogida-especial-img00356a-jpg

Then the's my 2011 Tele Build challenge losing entry.
This one has Fezzter FP-90's with magnet poles like a jazzmaster.

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/dogchicken/IMG_20110430_134742.jpg

My latest
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/xStonr/MM02-1.jpg

An oldie
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/xStonr/P90Tele05.jpg

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/dogchicken/IMG_20110430_134742.jpg

That... is... gorgeous...! WOW :cool:

I'm a massive fan of the P90 sound too. More balls than regular single coils but more bite than humbuckers.
I have a tele with 'Black Doves' as well as a Les Paul special. Latest addition is my Modern player marauder into which I have put a Seymour Duncan P-rail pickup (basically a p90 and a single coil stuck together).

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24228267/20130104_144607.jpg

Love those soapbars!
MrB

Here's my latest with Guitarfetish P90 pickups.
http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w371/stevem94/Misc%20Pics/th_P1010625_zpsca8c1062.jpg (http://s1072.beta.photobucket.com/user/stevem94/media/Misc%20Pics/P1010625_zpsca8c1062.jpg.html)http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w371/stevem94/Misc%20Pics/th_P1010624_zps52e5d2bb.jpg (http://s1072.beta.photobucket.com/user/stevem94/media/Misc%20Pics/P1010624_zps52e5d2bb.jpg.html)http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w371/stevem94/Misc%20Pics/th_P1010623_zps6489b276.jpg (http://s1072.beta.photobucket.com/user/stevem94/media/Misc%20Pics/P1010623_zps6489b276.jpg.html)http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w371/stevem94/Misc%20Pics/th_P1010622_zps57610404.jpg (http://s1072.beta.photobucket.com/user/stevem94/media/Misc%20Pics/P1010622_zps57610404.jpg.html)

Then the's my 2011 Tele Build challenge losing entry.
This one has Fezzter FP-90's with magnet poles like a jazzmaster.

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/dogchicken/IMG_20110430_134742.jpg

No offense to the winner, but how does that thing lose? Just beautiful!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/__naHXB8VTUc/S_xkVefVluI/AAAAAAAADaA/KgZpxIX9jgA/s512/IMG_1284.JPG

I have the same guitar only the blonde coloring. Also, the previous owner had a coil splitter installed which I personally find very cool (and at the same time confusing...lol). :roll: What amp do you play through dragonfly?

Looking back in on this thread, it occurs to me that Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke favors P-90s. In fact, a single P-90 in the bridge position...

http://www.rtjwebzine.fr/rtjenglish/2012%20Charlie%20BBS%20une.jpg http://www.rtjwebzine.fr/rtjenglish/concert/BLACKBERRY%20SMOKE%20PONTOISE%202010/blackberry%20smoke%2020100213%20pontoise%20-15-bd.jpg
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Thought I'd take a moment to join the club!

I had an older SG Jr that I sold a few years ago and have regretted it ever since. I was building another tele and decided to satisfy that craving. Couldn't be happier.

I went with one of the Stew Mac Parsons Street p90's and absolutely love it.

This is a mahogany body with maple top and creme binding. Its also got a mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard.

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