Dedmans JM Kustom

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Originally Posted by Dedman

I go out into the real world.... I go to the shooting range ,paint shop and the Post Office, 2 days a week I do volunteer work driving old folk and the disabled to Dr's appointments and shopping. That's more than enough of that "real life" stuff than I need. I much prefer being at home making stuff.

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Good for you. And I do mean that.

And good luck with the new guitar!

Getting back to the build....do you have to re-rout the pp cavities for the P90's?

they are jazz master pickups which are wider and thiiner than P90's Andy, they mount to the body, it will only be a couple of mil each side Which will be doable with the dremel

Sweet sweet growl

As I have some spare Jazzmaster pickup covers, here's the difference between a Jazzmaster pickup and a P90. They do take up a fair bit of real estate! They also have external fixing lugs, like a Jazz Bass pickup, which means that they aren't really suitable for trying to retrofit to a humbucker routed guitar where the neck humbucker is right against the end of the neck. But Dedman's guitar body is fine for these.

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yea fortunately there is a huge swimming pool and a lot of pick guard :)

Do they sound like P90's or more like a humbucker?

more spikey like a P90 and a lipsticks love child ;P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNkxPAReT5I

Plentiful surf vibes happening there.

Slightly less of a midrange hump than a normal P90 has, but pokier than a Strat pickup. The fact that a P90 has bar magnets underneath the coil and steel screw polepiece slugs gives a lower resonant peak for the pickup than the Jazzmaster's Alnico V pole-piece arrangement does. Also, the JM pickups have a thinner, wider coil than a P90 does, which will change the sound as well.

In my picture with the P90 and JM cover plate in, the pickups in the Les Paul Melody Maker shown are actually Gibsons 'P90S' pickups, with Alnico V polepieces, so they do sound more like a JM pickup than a normal P90. You should be able to see thet there are no height adjustable slug screws. The LP MM is a very slim guitar, so allegedly hasn't quite got the body depth for full P90s (though it still is mahogany with a maple cap), so by using magnetic polepieces, they saved about 4mm of magnet and securing plate in the depth of the unit.