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Would gibson ever try and make their own line of. Singl coil pickups. Some pople would say that they have that is the soap bar pickup I maen would gibson ever try to make their own true gibson singil coil pickup??
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Yes, its called a P-90. They've been producing it for about 60 years.
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randy will never die wrote:Would gibson ever try and make their own line of. Singl coil pickups. Some pople would say that they have that is the soap bar pickup I maen would gibson ever try to make their own true gibson singil coil pickup??
why would they? they don't have any singlecoil guitars to put them in :wink:
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Gibson have made 'fenderish' single coils. They used them in Melody Maker guitars, the Nighthawk, etc.

P90's are single coils too, but are constructed differently, and have a lower, wider coil than Fender pickups (and approx 20% more windings), so therefore sound very different. The wider coil gives a fatter, dirtier tone. Fender single coils have magnets for pole pieces, the P90's have screw polepieces, with two humbucker type magnets providing the magnetic field.
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rhoads56 wrote:Gibson have made 'fenderish' single coils. They used them in Melody Maker guitars, the Nighthawk, etc.

P90's are single coils too, but are constructed differently, and have a lower, wider coil than Fender pickups (and approx 20% more windings), so therefore sound very different. The wider coil gives a fatter, dirtier tone. Fender single coils have magnets for pole pieces, the P90's have screw polepieces, with two humbucker type magnets providing the magnetic field.
did not know that Thank you for the info i just thought p90s were some prototype for a humbuker design
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Actually in the early 90's Gibson has a les paul studio lite that has hum-single-hum pickup configuration.
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Rybones wrote:Actually in the early 90's Gibson has a les paul studio lite that has hum-single-hum pickup configuration.
what was the model name pleaz
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randy will never die wrote:
Rybones wrote:Actually in the early 90's Gibson has a les paul studio lite that has hum-single-hum pickup configuration.
what was the model name pleaz
I'd like to know that too. never saw anything like it :shock:
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gracias :) looks cool, different but cool :)
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Scott Grove has quite a bit of attitude (and he likes to consider himself 'special', shall we say) but he's got a LOT of guitars and he demos them for us to get a an idea...

I always liked his video comparing maple fingerboards to rosewood fingerboards... I prefer maple, by the way... not sure why, but I do...

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Never liked maple, for the same reason you don't like rosewood.

However, I'm looking to possibly build a tele/esquire in a distant future
which will have a maple neck :)
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well, there you go. you answered your own question :)
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