The P90 in a humbucker rout conundrum

[Possum]

If it was me I'd use short magnets, short baseplate and make the height adjustment thru the holes where the wood screws go thru, sorta like the batwing SG idea. The shorter baseplate and magnets would be short enough to sink down into the bucker rout.

[WolfeMacleod]

Good idea, like I said some time ago when you showed that to me- whats the minimum height required for the neck pickup including the cover where you wouldnt have to route the pickup cavity assuming it only has a bump out for the original humbucker height adjustment foot 1/2 inch wide?

As with a Les Paul neck? It gets a little thin... here's the first one I'm just now fitting.

Elegant solution Wolfe. But there are alot of guitars this won't work on. You can't drop the height of the pickup below the actual thickness of the P90 bobbin because it will hit the humbucker rout. That PRS has the strings very high up off the top of the guitar, my 335 type guitar doesn't have room for a P90 bobbin thickness and could only use a P90 if it were routed and a short P90 cover used.

You mean like that? ^

[WolfeMacleod]

What??? Here's my True P90 for humbucker cavity that i sell since 2009. Your version look a lot like mine!

The one at the bridge.
LauzonPickups.Com

Way, way back in 2000... In 1998 is when I designed the cover for this, splicing a dog-eared P-90 cover (minus the ears) to a humbucker moutning ring, for the first prototype. It's still around here, somewhere...

https://web.archive.org/web/20041205...totype-01.html

[WolfeMacleod]

Just uploaded this, done by the owner of the SG pictured above that I fitted with a pair of hand-made covers a couple years ago. Replaced the covers a few weeks ago with 3D prints above.

[EtLa]

"With is patent applied for" Patent for a P90.

[WolfeMacleod]

"With is patent applied for" Patent for a P90.

Not the pickup itself, but the cover that mounts it.