Gibson P100

[Ampclutz]

Hi,

I have a real Gibson P100 that I'm not exactly thrilled with. I guess it is OK but I'm thinking about rewinding it or changing it to a P90 or something.

Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with P100's?

Thanks,

AC

[hasserl]

Yeah, I do. Clip the wire to the bottom coil and you'll basically have a very hot P90. They sound pretty good like that too. Give it a try, see how you like it. It's simple and effective.

[Ampclutz]

hasserl,

Wow! That is easy! I was thinking rewind or a big deal but that's just so easy!

Thanks!

AC

[Ampclutz]

Well, I clipped the black wire on the bottom coil. It was easy and can easily be reconnected if I don't like it. My P100 was wired in parallel with the black wires on the center wire and the white wires connected to the shield of the lead.

It's not very noisy with the wire clipped.

AC

[David Schwab]

I guess they wound the coils hot to get the induction up, and then wired it in parallel to stop it from being muddy. I've seen other stacked pickups like that.

It might have sounded better in series... stacked pickups like this tend to be on the thin side due to phase cancelation.

If you want to try a project... First clip the pole screws back so they don't pass through the bottom coil. (I'm not sure if they do... we have one of these at our shop, but I only looked at it briefly). Get a piece of steel shim stock and bend it like a square U channel and place it under the top coil/magnets with the bent sides facing up toward the strings.

Then fill the screw holes in the bottom coil with steel rods, and drill more holes between them, and add more steel rods.

Now you just recreated a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage single coil. I hate to say it, but they sound really good.