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madialex
10-09-2008, 11:55 PM
Where can one find a good one these days along with the other parts needed.
J S Moore
10-10-2008, 12:46 AM
Guitar Jones updated their P-90 bobbins recently. They're a lot stiffer than they were and they don't distort as easily. Also the dogear baseplates are nickel silver. Mojo parts are the same as GJ.
madialex
10-10-2008, 01:10 AM
Thanks Jon, I have one of those cheapie epi Lp;s that i routed to hold 3 P90's like s strat, custom pickgaurd etc.. and wanted to wind up a few for that. Thanks for the help.... I'm not touching my 02 custom LOL....
belwar
10-10-2008, 05:01 AM
i recently ordered several P-90 bobbins from different places to see what the quality was like. Overall I was not impressed. I've been wanting to wind P-90's for a while and bought several over the internet from different manufacturers to examine. Some people make thier own bobbins now (such as Jason Lollar) probably because the quality of what is out there is not very good. Mr. Lollar uses forbon for his which is very easy to work. After seeing his I decided to make my own out of Phenolic because of its good di-electric properties.

belwar
EtLa
10-10-2008, 05:03 PM
The Allparts one I ordered a couple of years ago are not accurate for a real P90, the bobbin height is 0.265 inch. That is part of the reason I make my own bobbin.
The other thing with making your own bobbin is you can shape the sound with the bobbin height, as I recall I think I even go down to 0.125" and filled (the empirical way of making a pickup) it with 44AWG ... the customer needed a fat sounding pickup for a lap steel.
Electricdaveyboy
10-12-2008, 01:41 PM
Yes,
I am making my p-90 bobbins from frorbon since first on.I bought some parts kits from montreux but the plastc-bobbins do not look right for me and the screws are metric.
I would like to have the same bobbins like Duncan uses on his Ants.They look absolut vintage.
Possum
10-12-2008, 02:11 PM
I don't think those baseplates are nickel silver, they are plated brass probably....dig into it with a file....
Electricdaveyboy
10-12-2008, 03:38 PM
I do not know if GJ has them.
Those kits from Montreux use nickle silver.