Well, I ordered a laser printer and some decal paper. The laser printer is here and installed, just waiting for the decal paper to arrive.
And then the custom wound dog-ear P90s pickups arrived today from Creamery. There is something about me and pickups. I'm not having much luck with them.
The bridge pickup is fine. The cover sits nicely over the mounting ears and flat against the top of the bobbin.
The bridge pickup I like. It's a lovely pickup for the bridge position. As soon as I saw it, I said, "Hello! What a lovely pickup for the bridge!"
However, the neck pickup is another matter.
Those with good eyesight may have spotted the issue straight away. For the rest of you, I will point out the large gap between the mounting ears and the underside of the pickup cover. So when installed on the guitar, a) there is a big gap between the cover and the body and b) the pickup sits too high on the body, so even if the cover was deeper, the top of the pickup sits far too near the height of the neck for comfort.
The cover height is about right for the location of the pickup, so it's the height of the legs for the mounting ears that's incorrect.
Looking back at the bridge pickup, you'll see that the legs are very short, but the cover is correspondingly tall. In comparison, the legs on this neck pickup may be described as of 'medium' length, when in fact they need to be 'long'. (Note that the neck is only loosely fitted and not glued in, and that the neck rout need to be enlarged backwards by 1mm as the cover doesn't quite fit in against the end of the neck).
These are handmade custom wound pickups, so I fail to see how their maker got it so wrong and still sent them out. I ordered these on 30th Jan, so have been waiting quite a while for them. A(nother) complaining email sent and am now awaiting a response (Creamery is a one-man outfit, so emails take some time to be responded to).
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