Dedmans JM Kustom

[Dedman]

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

[wazkelly]

Plentiful surf vibes happening there.

[Simon Barden]

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.

[Dedman]

Clear coats done. She now sits until Pabs sends me some pick guards and I take them to my local printer. After the fit out I'll polish it.

[wokkaboy]

nice colour Dedman, this has got a Bigbsy trem hey ? Should be a pearler axe !

[Dedman]

Yup Wokka! Cheers!

[wokkaboy]

and I'm sure you got some nice pups to go in. Any fancy controls like the 3 small switches ?

[Dedman]

nup, just a 4 way going to wire it like a Tele, single tone and single volume. the pick ups are just GF Jazzmasters. Don't have a huge budget atm.

[Andy40]

mmmmm surfy

[Drummerdude]

Love that color. Your painting skills are top notch. Are you using hvlp gun or rattle cans? Love your builds..