How To Build A P-90 Pickup 

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I'll have to check that one out!

Jazzmaster pickups are a bit different from P90s. They’re shorter and wider, with magnetized pole pieces instead of bar magnets, and P90s have more breakup. I looked Zoo Strategies up, and he really does get a great tone from that Squier.

I'd love to know that answer too.

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Coil-tapped pickup is a good idea! I'll zoom in more in the future. Thanks Bruno!

Resistance has nothing to do with hotness, at least not directly. DC resistance depends not only on amount of wraps but also on wire gauge. Which means pickup with lower resistance can still be hotter (to have more wraps or more powerful magnet). By changing gauge they usually control bass amount you get from the pickup while keeping amount of wraps around the same for both neck and bridge pickups. But in case if pickups are identical, even if they do exactly the same amount of wraps wire is still not ideal, so there is always difference, e.g. they were pulling wire harder when producing second pickup and it became thinner. Wires that connect pickups are thick as hell compared to copper wire in the pickup itself. piece that connects pickups to switch and jack has resistance close to 0.

Victor Petrenko I’m not Seth Lover but I would agree with most of what you said. Where I disagree is when you say that resistance doesn’t effect “hotness” of a pickup. Maybe I need to define “hotness”, when I use the term I mean to say high output. While number of turns and wire gauge will effect/vary the sound and resistance pickup, I know enough about electricity to know that the amount of resistance in the pickup does have an effect on pickup output. Generally speaking a pickup with 15 ohms of resistance is going to produce a “hotter” or higher output signal to the amp when compared to a pickup with 9 ohms or resistance. A pickup is just a very simple generator and increasing winding and thus resistance will have an effect on output. If this wasn’t the case so called “overwound” pickups wouldn’t exist. Of course the wire gauge and type and magnet type as well as construction have an effect as well but the windings and the magnet are the heart of the sound as I understand it. I appreciate your point of view and the information you’ve provided me but my original question still remains to be answered if anyone knows.

Output. (Volume)has more to do with magnet strength than windings. When I think of hotness I think of how fast a pickup starts to clip the signal., which has more to do with the coil windings.

Yes, P-90s are not Jazzmaster pickups. Very different.

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about 4 inches at least. I tape it to the metal winder arm and then take the tape off once the coil is complete.

Danelectro has a guitar with an angled P90 neck pickup so whoever said it can’t be done lacks imagination.

No but they are cage free

@@SchuylerDeanPickups At least you do care for the welfare of the pick-ups that you make and sell

It's an old Schatten

42 AWG

@@SchuylerDeanPickups Thank u sir 👍

who is your favorite artist who plays P-90s?

@@SchuylerDeanPickups Charlie Christian and Carlos Santana 👐😍

One obvious factor is manufacturing cost. Hand made in America of course will cost more than machine made in China. Another factor is the quality of the parts. $10 won’t even buy you 6 high quality Alnico rods.

DALG Guitars It doesn’t matter. There no such things like "start" or "finish". If you don’t know the basics, do not poke hot iron in guitar guts.

@@iridios6127 One lead from the pickup is the start of the wind, the other is the finish of the wind. It matters when you are wiring more than one pickup on a guitar.

+@@dalgguitars What kind of catastrophic disaster would happen if "wrong" were to connect the ends of the wires ?

@@iridios6127 it does not matter for a single pickup ( SG Juniors and the like) but it means the world when there's two or more- you see, you want to know what ends are what so you can wire them in phase for stronger sounds and out of phase for shimmery weak but interesting, hollow sounds. Or if you go for simple mods, you must put them all in phase.. same as speakers.. the reason why speaker wires are colored are for you to know what goes where so the sound is what you expect not out-of phase artifacts...

@@axelmorisson Almost all modern circuits contain 1 pickup out of phase for the humbucking effect.