Topic: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

Are the pickups in this guitar p-90's or p-100'S?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXyKUxMskw

Guitars: 1974 LP Custom, 2013 R8
Amps: '88 JCM 800 w/ TV cab, Tone King Falcon
Effects: Fulltone Clyde, Monsterpiece Stud, EP Booster, Strymon El Capistan

Re: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

older guitar. I'd guess p-90's.

Re: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

P-90, no question.

Re: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

They are P-90s... The guitar in that video was built in 1955... Its a ES-295, essentially an all gold ES-175....  Nice Guitar and sounds wicked through the Jim Kelley amps...
Joe B

Re: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

So I have the opportunity to get my hands on a 1995 Gibson ES-135 which has P-110's. I'm wondering if I can just swap them out for P-90's or if some modification will be required? To the best of my knowledge both P-90's and P-100's are the same size and thus interchangeable.

Guitars: 1974 LP Custom, 2013 R8
Amps: '88 JCM 800 w/ TV cab, Tone King Falcon
Effects: Fulltone Clyde, Monsterpiece Stud, EP Booster, Strymon El Capistan

Re: Question for Joe or anyone in the know!

P-90's come in 2 shapes and sizes soap bar pickups and dog ear pickups.  The soap bar are rectangular shaped with 2 screw holes through the body of the pickup that mount directly to the body of the guitar.  Dog ear p-90's are the same shape but have flanges that have a screw hole on each side of them, the pickup mounts on top of the body as the other pickup is routed to let the pickup sit lower.  I've never heard of a P-100 but I have heard of a P-94 which is a p-90 pickup with a second coil like a humbucker to cancel out 60-cycle hum.  Doing a google search the are the same size pickup the difference is the P-100 is a stacked coil design like the p-94 I talked about.  The pickup is wired parallel instead of in series like a humbucker normally is wired.  http://www.sweetwater.com/expert-center … 10/15/2007