Are P94 bobbins, baseplates and covers some kind of holy grail?

[Meowy]

I've looked to all the usual retail / hobby suppliers but no luck.

Are P94 supplies only available if you are buying bulk quantities?

[Possum]

????

Whats a P94?

[Meowy]

Whats a P94?

It's a humbucker form-factor P90. P94 is Gibson's model / designation.

Others make them too such as Duncan's PhatCat

[Norcal_GIT_r]

I just make the parts myself or modify existing parts.

i don t know anyone who sells the parts.

[Electricdaveyboy]

Thatīs it !

That is the point were real pickup building fun starts.
Routing a special bobbin, drilling the baseplates and make shure to get all that correct 42AWG wire under the cover and wind it to real p-90 specs.

Not a 42 AWG /6,5 K-ohm or 43AWG/ 7,5 K-Ohm P-90 wannabe.

[Possum]

oh...

Yeah those things, you have to make all your own parts and find an undrilled humbucker cover. I made a couple different ones for awhile and discontinued them because they were too shrill for my tastes, then I had a brain storm and came up with my Pig-90s which beat the shit out of all the awful sounding products. Check ou the video demo at Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/sdpickups

[NightWinder]

some are using forbon, or acrilic or someting of the likes for plates these days.

[Possum]

design limitations....

the problems you will run into are the size limitations of the humbucker cover size. this limits your coil size, you can't make a wide, fat, long coil like a real P90 so the only way to get enough winds on the coil is go UP. Tall coils make bright sounding coils. You can try to combat this by using thinner wire, once you do that you've lost real P90 tone and are into something else. If you make the coil too tall the magnetic flux gets real weak. the two versions I had before the Pig-90 are still on my website if you want to hear what kinds of tones you can get. The vintage Kaybar uses a trick I learned from Kay Kleenex box pickups and 44 gauge wire. these were pretty popular but they're not a P90 tone by any stretch of the imagination. I would always tell my customers if they really wanted authentic P90 tone, buy another guitar that already have P90s on it, then give me a call :-) Also, I don't know why but almost every P90 equipped guitar you can buy comes with bad sounding pickups that really aren't anything like a true vintage P90, even the Gibson P90s are easy to beat. I've even heard P90s on an Epiphone SG that you would swear was a tele if you closed your eyes