Dog Ear P90 Pickups!

[Darren]

Hi folks,
I have a customer with an imported Peerless Songbird guitar which is fitted with 'dog ear' style P90 pickups. They are pretty low output, and my customer wants me to source hotter pickups. He's on a budget and can't quite stretch to the Seymour Duncan P90 Stacked set. Is anybody aware if you can simply fit a regular P90 into a dog ear cover and make life a bit easier for me, as it seems to be a fruitless task getting something at the right price?
Thanks in advance,
Darren

[Donald A. Fortune]

Hi Darren - I may be all wet on this one but the P-90 dog ear pickup is a different size than the std. P-90 as on the Gibson Les Paul model guitar so therefore the poor chap is going to need to spring for the Duncans if they want something different
Try e/Bay and maby you will have some luck finding a pickup that will fit your needs....
Peace,
Donald

[Darren]

Thanks Donald!

[Russell Vance]

The internals of the P-90 are the roughly same dimension for both pickups - the mounting for the internals varies - some have extension tabs that extend into the dog ears and some just have a rubber pad between the pickup and the body which holds the whole internal coils magnets etc in place. However, two things - regular Gibson P-90s are relatively low output anyway, and Gibson P-90s are a different size than some aftermarket/Seymour duncan units and depending on how lucky you are will sometimes not interchange with existing plastic covers. Have you tried using a P-90 dog ear shaped spacer under the pickup (I think Allparts have them) to get it closer to the action and therefor louder? Hope this helps, Rusty.

[Darren]

Hey Rusty,
Thanks for the advice. My customer has the pickups as close to the strings as they will go, so he's definately looking for a hotter output!
Cheers,
Dar

[Ned Knepp]

Doesn't he just need an amplifier with controls that go to 11?

Ned

[Darren]

haha,
Indeed, I'll give him a copy of Spinal Tap and see if he changes his mind!
Thanks!

[Tom Krebs]

Guitar Fetish.com sells inexpensive P90 dog ear style. They're fairly hot and they have a 'reverse' matched set.

[Mac Walker]

I 2nd the GFS pickups, great quality for the price. First question though, what is the resistance of the stock pickup? Also make sure the customer understands they will lose some high end at the expense of a higher output pickup.

[Darren]

Thanks guys. More good advice!
Cheers!