p-90 parts

[clown_luthier]

Hey guys, where do you buy p-90 back screws?
i can't find them on mojo web

i need this 2 screws from the back:

[clown_luthier]

what are the dimensions of this 2 thin maple spacers?



do i see it good, or there is a space between baseplate and metal spacer and bobbin? are they not in touch like on pafs?

[Spence]

If you can only get panhead screws you can re profile them on a sanding belt into round heads.
There are maple spacers under the magnets.

[Yves]

I use these:
DURATOOL|M2.512 PRA2MCS100-|VIS TETE PLATE POZI. S/S. A2. | Farnell France

Might not be vintage correct if that's what you are looking for, but they are stainless steel, so they don't interfere with the magnetic field, which is what I want.


Yves

[David Schwab]

There are maple spacers under the magnets.

Really? What are they needed for?

I had a set from a 70's SG that didn't have any spacers.

[Possum]

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You can buy the screws in any hardware store, they are a #6 x 1/2" sheet metal screw. Pan head, phillips, zinc plated steel. Very very common...

Never saw one with shims before, you see the two indents on the bottom, those are internal shims of a sort, maybe the magnets were vibrating or something and someone shimmed it with wood.

[Spence]

The spacers were only on soapbars and not on dogears. They lift the magnets off the baseplate ( which will stop the magnets adding to microphonics ) adding to the height of the pickup. The lip on the edge of the frame dictates how low the cover can go.
Originally Gibson would get the pickup height in the rout by shimming the underside of the soapbars with wood as well.
Some later P90 soapbars had huge wooden shims inside the pickup and later again they just stopped using shims.

[voodoochild]

Just know that if you make them using wooden shims, they won't fit any modern day Gibsons. It will be too tall.

[RedHouse]

what are the dimensions of this 2 thin maple spacers?



do i see it good, or there is a space between baseplate and metal spacer and bobbin? are they not in touch like on pafs?

Hold on, I may be slow here but let me get it straight ...you have the pickup ...in your hand ....took extreme close-up pictures of it, now you can't measure the spacer (or lack thereof)... WTF? ...

[clown_luthier]

Hold on, I may be slow here but let me get it straight ...you have the pickup ...in your hand ....took extreme close-up pictures of it, now you can't measure the spacer (or lack thereof)... WTF? ...

i wish
this pictures are from vintage checkover, but i saw identical one from spence on my les paul forum.

[Spence]

Those shims under the magnets are the same thickness as an ice lolly stick.....

[LtKojak]

Those shims under the magnets are the same thickness as an ice lolly stick.....

... because they are!

Good eye, Spence.

[clown_luthier]

... because they are!

Good eye, Spence.

so this is maybe 1/16" thick

[RedHouse]

i wish
this pictures are from vintage checkover, but i saw identical one from spence on my les paul forum.

Ahh, I see.

[Possum]

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I have some shims that were licked by Seth Lover himself, honest.....