Build Finished - First Offset Modernized

[scottosan]

Just swapped the bridge magnets from A4 to A2. Much better. Love A4s in neck positions but not the bridge.

Just an FYI, P90s use 2 bar magnets vs a single magnet in a Humbucker.

 

[ChurchHill]

Just swapped the bridge magnets from A4 to A2. Much better. Love A4s in neck positions but not the bridge.

Just an FYI, P90s use 2 bar magnets vs a single magnet in a Humbucker.

Yeah, got that attitude back in the bridge and that neck sounds heavenly, great clarity and sparkle!

Have you ever mixed magnets in a P90? I'm not sure it would do much, but I have heard of some mixing mags in 3-magnet humbuckers as well as Strats using different mags for high and low strings. Just not sure it would matter that much in a P90, but now I'm curious.

 

[scottosan]

Yeah, got that attitude back in the bridge and that neck sounds heavenly, great clarity and sparkle!

Have you ever mixed magnets in a P90? I'm not sure it would do much, but I have heard of some mixing mags in 3-magnet humbuckers as well as Strats using different mags for high and low strings. Just not sure it would matter that much in a P90, but now I'm curious.

mixing magnets in a p90 would not be a good design because you are using 2 magnet both with the same pole touching the pole pieces. Meaning the magnets for example would both have their north pole against the pole pieces. For reference when you hold 2 magnets together with the same poles, they fight each other. This is what's happening in a P90, but because you have steel pole pieces, they attract to that and stay together. If you have an A5 for example, it will degauss the weaker A2 or A3 magnet. Two of the same magnet type will not degauss one another

 

[ChurchHill]

mixing magnets in a p90 would not be a good design because you are using 2 magnet both with the same pole touching the pole pieces. Meaning the magnets for example would both have their north pole against the pole pieces. For reference when you hold 2 magnets together with the same poles, they fight each other. This is what's happening in a P90, but because you have steel pole pieces, they attract to that and stay together. If you have an A5 for example, it will degauss the weaker A2 or A3 magnet. Two of the same magnet type will not degauss one another

Pretty much what I thought, thanks for the detailed answer! I'm thinking that also somewhat applies to 3-magnet humbuckers, even though I've seen a few designs that do that. Strat pickups are a completely different animal, though, with the polepieces being magnets themselves.

 

[LPMojoGL]

Looks like a Kirk Cobain axe

Cobain's Jaguar was pretty sweet. I wonder if they were the nicest guitars he played? He mostly used pawn shop grade junk with aftermarket HBs tacked on.

My 70s HSS Squier CV kinda gives a nod to Cobain's Vandalism and David Gilmour's Strats.