Hi all,
Just got myself another toy![Smile](https://music-electronics-forum.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
Luckily my wife didn't change our home's lock when I told her I was going to buy another guitar, so I still have a roof above me and a place to keep my guitars and amps
.
Anyway....
The baby's a 1998 Gibson Blueshawk, she's a nice guitar, she's light, and I like very much the way she sounds.
But.....( don't know why there's always a "but"
)...
A friend of mine owns a '65 Epiphone Casino, with "dogear" P90s, which I like very much, so ( I know, I know, don't tell me, I'm incorrigible ) I started thinking about modding my Blueshawk to get ( also ) a more "P-90ish" sound out of her.
Though the Blues-90 is built differently ( for starters it has six AlNiCo rods instead of a magnet bar ) I thought I could get closer to a P-90 by over-winding the pickups, keeping the current "end" as a "tap" to be switched by means of a supplementary Push-Pull ( volume ) pot ( the Push-Pull on the tone pot switches the Vari-tone on and off ) to go back to "stock" conditions when needed.
AFAIK Blues-90s are wound using PE AWG 42, and I have calculated I need to add some 3000-3200 windings to get closer to the electrical constants of a P90, anyway, I look forward to hearing your ( Possum, David, Mike, Spence and all of our other most knowledgeable fellows ) opinions on the matter.
TIA to all who will spend some of their precious time to comment on this.
Best regards
Bob
Just got myself another toy
![Smile](https://music-electronics-forum.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
Luckily my wife didn't change our home's lock when I told her I was going to buy another guitar, so I still have a roof above me and a place to keep my guitars and amps
![Big Grin](https://music-electronics-forum.com/core/images/smilies/biggrin.png)
Anyway....
The baby's a 1998 Gibson Blueshawk, she's a nice guitar, she's light, and I like very much the way she sounds.
But.....( don't know why there's always a "but"
![Smile](https://music-electronics-forum.com/core/images/smilies/smile.png)
A friend of mine owns a '65 Epiphone Casino, with "dogear" P90s, which I like very much, so ( I know, I know, don't tell me, I'm incorrigible ) I started thinking about modding my Blueshawk to get ( also ) a more "P-90ish" sound out of her.
Though the Blues-90 is built differently ( for starters it has six AlNiCo rods instead of a magnet bar ) I thought I could get closer to a P-90 by over-winding the pickups, keeping the current "end" as a "tap" to be switched by means of a supplementary Push-Pull ( volume ) pot ( the Push-Pull on the tone pot switches the Vari-tone on and off ) to go back to "stock" conditions when needed.
AFAIK Blues-90s are wound using PE AWG 42, and I have calculated I need to add some 3000-3200 windings to get closer to the electrical constants of a P90, anyway, I look forward to hearing your ( Possum, David, Mike, Spence and all of our other most knowledgeable fellows ) opinions on the matter.
TIA to all who will spend some of their precious time to comment on this.
Best regards
Bob
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