Best way to wind a P90 to sound Rickish

[loverickbass]

Ok, so Ryan Gadow of Gadow Guitars out of Durham NC is building me a custom 12 string in the vain of Rickenbacker. In the Gadow style I'm sticking with the P90s but I want him to get a psodo Ric tone out of it. What is the best way? I'm thinking maybe alnico 2 magnets with 5000 turns of 38 AGW. Help me out Serg. BTW, long time no see bro!

Cole

[collin]

homonym alert!



Tone-wise, I've never heard a P90 sound like a Ric pickup. I hate to give such an obvious answer, but why not simply use a Ric pickup?

[loverickbass]

String spacing issues is why. I'm sure Sergio knows how to do it.

[longhouse]

Cole, are you getting a Custom Hollow or a Classic Hollow? Or something all-together different?

[loverickbass]

It's going to be a custom hollow with an oversized body. Checkerd binding on the body,neck, and headstock. Jet black. 5A flame maple fingerboard. She's going to be a looker!

Cole

[longhouse]

Sounds sleek -please post some photos when your new treasure is complete.

[loverickbass]

Will do....although it mite be a while. It's been well over a year now, still waiting. You can't rush perfection I guess.

[rickcrazy]

Hey Cole! How're you hangin'?

Huh... Making a P-90 sound like a Rick pickup? It's not the impossible dream. Re-wind the P-90 with #44 magnet wire to roughly 7.0 K, then put it on a Rickenbacker guitar - instant Rick tone!

Actually the laws of Physics always call the shots, plus if you put a P-90 and an older Rick high-gain pickup side by side you won't notice a world of difference between them, believe me.

[iiipopes]

String spacing issues is why. I'm sure Sergio knows how to do it.

Little known fact: take a toaster, flip it over, and measure center-to-center on the magnets. It's not 1 15/16 like on high gain button tops. C-to-C on a toaster is about 2 1/16. I measured them myself helping Cassius 987 and LowEndLover switch out highgains for toaster on their basses. So string spacing on a toaster is not an issue. It should work, even using something like a Gotoh 12-string flat plate bridge.