I would love to breathe underwater. P-90 pickups.

[Saul Goodman]

 

[Travis]

P90’s are awesome. Who’s been ignoring them?  Their loss…

[Spinaltap]

I have p90's on a Gibson DC Special, and really love them...

[cmatthes]

I’ve got ‘em on a couple of guitars.  They’re great alternatives to the usual suspects… 

[veatch]

what are P-90s?   Are they these silly things?

[veatch]

I think I may have had a few before...

(Greg's pic...)

[veatch]

Then there's this old thing...

[veatch]

The Newport is magical with the right P90s...

[veatch]

(Mike's pic)
A smart man here said that a bucker in the bridge and a P-90 in the neck is a great combination.  He wasn't wrong.

ETA - That man was Brooks.  Took my aging brain a while to remember.  

Edited December 29, 2025 by veatch

[Jimbilly]

does this count? ('59 Guild)

[duncans]

20 minutes ago, veatch said:

The Newport is magical with the right P90s...

DIBS !! either one! or both.

[Dave Scepter]

I have Phat-cats in a Korina Vector... does that count? 🤔

 

 

 

Bang Bang... GO NINERS 🏈 

Edited December 29, 2025 by Dave Scepter

[Jimbilly]

I flipped this one a few months ago, I was tempted to keep it: recent Epi "59 goldtop", which came in gold or black. A lot of the recent Epi's are quite nice

[Jeff R]

Our most recent incarnate ... "PK"-90s ... dual A5s and strategically overwound for Carondelet artist Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity, Down). We put a dogear version in his '59RI Murphy Lab double cut Junior too.

Here's Pepper and said Murphy Lab ... followed by PJK's MVP, the "Breadwinner," a mid 90s and VERY custom ESP double thick SG clone, with the neck PK-90 and a bridge H prototype he and I are working on together.

Edited December 29, 2025 by Jeff R

[Greg G]

My Kauer with P90 neck/bucker bridge arrangement.

[Camstone]

The two Hamers have moved on, still rockin' the Yamaha and the Junior.

[veatch]

That Hamer Jr. is still in my top 5 favorites. 

[stobro]

I used to have the Duo, now I have the Artist.

[Feynman]

This thread is mean.

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Edited to add:  What's the deal with P-90 Duotones?

Edited December 30, 2025 by Feynman

[veatch]

I think I've only seen 2. I think the bridge and spruce top would pair well with the pups. 

[cmatthes]

1 hour ago, veatch said:

I think I've only seen 2. I think the bridge and spruce top would pair well with the pups. 

I have always regretted selling mine!

 

[LucSulla]

14 hours ago, Jeff R said:

Our most recent incarnate ... "PK"-90s ... dual A5s and strategically overwound for Carondelet artist Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity, Down). We put a dogear version in his '59RI Murphy Lab double cut Junior too.

Here's Pepper and said Murphy Lab ... followed by PJK's MVP, the "Breadwinner," a mid 90s and VERY custom ESP double thick SG clone, with the neck PK-90 and a bridge H prototype he and I are working on together.

Oh snap! You're working with Pepper? That is awesome!

[JohnZ]

Uhh, this one is mean, too. I forgot what P90 it is, but i is quite old and has a lot to tell.

[ArnieZ]

Carondolet p90's in the Newport, Lollars in the Artist Korina

arniez

[Jim85IROC]

If I had to pick, I'd have to go with P90s as my favorite pickup.  As I often do, I've managed to seriously over-do it in the last few years with P90 guitars.  I think part of the appeal is that unlike with humbuckers and fender-style single coils, with P90s it's pretty difficult to make them sound bad.  Ironically, one of the few exceptions to that for me is the hot ceramic Duncan P90s that Hamer put in all of their US models.  On the other hand, the alnico P90s in the imported Hamers sound fantastic.  Of all my P90 guitars, I'd have to say that for that traditional P90 raunch, nothing beats my Gibson LP Special.  It just has "that" sound.  My other favorite P90 guitar is actually my Vox Bobcat V90 that I bought a while back.  It's a semi hollow 335-style guitar but the P90s in it use alnico pole pieces instead of bar magnets.  It's really a fantastic sounding guitar.  Because of how much I like that guitar, I want to start exploring more alnoco pole P90s and even some Dynasonic style pickups.

Here's some of my P90 stuff.  This isn't all of it, but I've also moved a couple of these along, so it's kind of a wash.

My first P90 guitar, and also my first Hamer.  

 

This came with a Gibson P90 in the neck and a p90-sized JB in the bridge. I bought a set of imported Hamer P90s to swap back into it:

My Gibson that I picked up last year:

4 gold top P90s was a bit much.  The Godin was fantastic, but it wasn't getting used much so I sold it off.  The Schecter just sold last night on Reverb.  That has a set of fantastic sounding Guitar Madness A2 P90s in it.  I'll be getting another set of those for one of my other P90 guitars soon.  The US Hamer has a set of Lollar 50s in it.

The US Hamer:

The Vox with the alnico pole P90s:

One of my most recent P90 purchases is this Hamer from the rebooted series.  This guitar really surprised me.  It's a fantastic instrument.  A previous owner swapped in a set of really hot bare knuckle pickups which are surprisingly good sounding considering how ridiculously hot they are, but I think this is going to be the guitar that I wind up experimenting with more alnico pole & Dynasonic-type pickups.

Most recently I picked up an Epi LP Special to compare to my Gibson.  That's been a fun guitar.  Not shown is my Firefly doublecut.  That's the one that I will probably end up dropping another set of the Guitar Madness P90s into.