Ornate P90 alternatives

57Deluxe

saw these on a FBook page and think they are rather nice...

Was little info but seemingly from a company called Ganee but looks like HB and P90 options

OilCityPickups

Like those :-) OTT but in the right guitar ... nice.

steamabacus

The humbucker one is oversize - initially I thought it must replace the entire pickup surround but, looking again, the mounting holes suggest a 'dual P90' arrangement.

@TheGuitarWeasel

Have you ever come across such an arrangement? How well would it work?

OilCityPickups

steamabacus said:

The humbucker one is oversize - initially I thought it must replace the entire pickup surround but, looking again, the mounting holes suggest a 'dual P90' arrangement.

@TheGuitarWeasel

Have you ever come across such an arrangement? How well would it work?

Be a 'bucking big humbucker!' I'd have thought It'd sound a bit muddy ... as, if you actually used two P90 coils side by side and connected in series ... you'd be talking nearly 16k, on short, squat bobbins ... reading a heck of a long string length. A PAF was Gibson's answer to a humbucking P90 ... they split the P90's wire load over two bobbins, allowing the bobbins to sit closer together and read less string length than two P90 bobbins. 
Having said that ... that 'cover' doesn't look wide enough for two full width P90 bobbins, so maybe the made a halfway house ...

Funkfingers

Is the top of each pickup metal or just plastic, decorated to resemble metal?

If it is metal, you would have to wonder whether it would have a detrimental effect on how the P90 sounds.

OilCityPickups

Funkfingers said:

Is the top of each pickup metal or just plastic, decorated to resemble metal?

If it is metal, you would have to wonder whether it would have a detrimental effect on how the P90 sounds.

I'd hope it was engraved and sprayed/patina finished plastic (or wood) otherwise the flux ain't going to like it :-)