P100s and P90s

Hootsmon

Soapbars On a LP special........are these the same size/interchangeable?

SteveRobinson

Not exactly. They are the same length and width as you'd expect but because it has a second stacked coil a P-100 is deeper.

So if you put P-90s in a guitar made for P-100s you may need to pack under the pickups.
And if you put P-100s in a guitar made for P-90s you may need to rout the cavities deeper.

Hootsmon

Oh, thanks Steve

ICBM

SteveRobinson said:

Not exactly. They are the same length and width as you'd expect but because it has a second stacked coil a P-100 is deeper.

*Much* deeper - very close to twice the depth, because the two coils are the same height and it's only the magnet and baseplate which aren't doubled.



Although I've never tried it, I think it's unlikely a P100 will fit in any stock cavity routed for a P90.

Funkfingers

I managed to fit a Seymour Duncan STKP-1B (and a shallow piece of compressible foam) into the pickup cavity of a Hamer XT Junior.

I soon removed the stacked coils pickup. None of its modes sounded as good as a dogear Antiquity P90.