GIBSON GRABBER

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp

I've never seen one like that for bass. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a humbucker-sized single coil for guitars. I've seen P-90s like that, but not singles.

Aren't P90s single coil?
To get back on topic, I play a Heavy ass bass now which sounds amazing, but I can't keep it on for three or four hour practices anymore. The grabber is amazing, as is Mr. Whoopysnorp's Peavey. You just gotta take them off once in a while at practice.

[GearJunkie]

yes, p-90's are single coils. gibson released the p-100 maybe like 5-10 years ago, which is a humbucking version of the p-90. the old p-90s are buzzy as hell but sound amazing.

[Whoopysnorp]

P-90s are single coil pickups but my understanding is that they have a different sound than a strat or tele-type single coil. Somewhere between one of those and a humbucker. For a while I was intending to get a guitar with P-90s on it like a Les Paul Jr. or something but I kind of forgot about that.

Aren't P-100s just P-90s but in a humbucker size?

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp

P-90s are single coil pickups but my understanding is that they have a different sound than a strat or tele-type single coil. Somewhere between one of those and a humbucker. For a while I was intending to get a guitar with P-90s on it like a Les Paul Jr. or something but I kind of forgot about that.

Aren't P-100s just P-90s but in a humbucker size?

P-90s have the bite of a single coil with the low end of a humbucker (imho). I love the sound of them, but as soon as you put any gain on them it's HUM CITY.

P-100's are regular P-90 size. P-94s are the P-90s that are fit for humbuckers.

I've got a Dearmond single coil retrofit for a humbucker in one of my hollowbodies and it sounds amazing. I love the fact that they're resizing pickups for unorthodox uses. I've also got a gretsch filtertron retrofit for a humbucker size that i keep meaning to install, but i'm lazy (see: suck at using a sottering iron).

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by GearJunkie

sottering iron

I hope you are joking

[GearJunkie]

Originally Posted by dagosto

I hope you are joking

i always end up calling it a sottering iron and not a soldering iron because i'm stupid. however, i still have no friggin clue how to use the damn things the right way. i always have goops of stuff all over the place.

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by GearJunkie

i always end up calling it a sottering iron and not a soldering iron because i'm stupid. however, i still have no friggin clue how to use the damn things the right way. i always have goops of stuff all over the place.

yea, i had to practice a lot myself do get good at soldering; but i am by far an expert. i'm trying to get back into it and do my own valve jr mods (with explicit instructions and detailed pictures/schematics...i'm still hesitant to do it myself though). actually, guitar pickups and cables are the perfect place to start. have someone show you how to do one, and do another on your own with them supervising.

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by smopo24

yea, i had to practice a lot myself do get good at soldering; but i am by far an expert. i'm trying to get back into it and do my own valve jr mods (with explicit instructions and detailed pictures/schematics...i'm still hesitant to do it myself though). actually, guitar pickups and cables are the perfect place to start. have someone show you how to do one, and do another on your own with them supervising.

Cables are much easier to do than pickups in my experience. Check out part one of the Guitar repair and modification article we put up on the site.

http://www.gearwire.com/guitar-repair.html

One of the juicy little bits that I got from the soon to be published part two is to tie a bit of string to your wires when changing a pickup in a hollowbody fender type design. This way when you are done re-running the wires is a snap.