Sea Smoke humbucker sized Mini Range P90 - vintage P90 style set

Sea Smoke humbucker sized Mini Range P90 - vintage P90 style set

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Solderless setup with all required wiring available here.

The Mini Range series of P90s are P90s utilising FeCrCo screw magnets, similar to Wide Range humbuckers from Telecaster customs. This gives the pickups a brighter, more aggressive note attack, giving the pickups a tonality similar to a Fender style single coil. Below is the standard pickup set description. Due to using these screws, any mention of magnets in the description below does not apply, but is there for reference to the standard set.

This pickup set was designed from customer demand! 

Having seen the number of requests and the outstanding feedback from this pickup set, it seems silly not to make it an official set.

We've had many customers asking for a vintage styled P90 set that could be found all over the 1950s-1970s. It had to be clean, articulate, mellow and have just enough output to kick a valve amp into beautiful overdrive with natural bloom when pushed. 

Starting from the Murky Horizon neck pickup, which was already in the ballpark of what  was to be achieved here. Clean and low gain work are typically the primary uses for this set, the Murky Horizon neck can be a little bit 'spiky' at either end of the EQ spectrum. This is great for clarity, but when you're playing clean and want a singing sustain reminiscent of the golden days, it's just not right. The Murky Horizon neck was loaded with alnico 2 magnets to smooth off the rough edges.

The Murky Horizon bridge is miles away from what this pickup set was made to recreate, so that design was tossed to one side. A new bridge build was in order. A vintage wind was created, a touch hotter than the neck to balance, but no more than was necessary to retain all the vintage goodness. This curbed a little bit of the shrill highs of the vintage wind, and provided the singing sustain to match the neck, alnico 2 magnets were used once more.

Specs (neck/bridge):
Resistance: 8.2k/8.8k
Magnets: alnico 2 bar magnet x2
Output wire: Braided single conductor
Spacing: 50mm/52mm
Wax potted

Supplied with mounting screws

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I have both the bridge and neck pickups from this range fitted into my SG guitar, the FeCrCo screw magnets give these pickups a very unique tonal quality that really sits in between a traditional P90 and a vintage stratocaster single coil. Each string rings through clearly just like a single coil pickup should but the tone is much fatter and big like you would want from a P90 giving you the best of both in one package.
Run these pickups through a fuzz pedal and you get a tone that is smooth, heavy and like no other pickup can deliver, roll back the volume and they clean up beautifully.
I chose the option of open covers to allow the treble frequency to really come through and I'm glad I did as the note definition is very impressive.