Saw a couple of threads on The Gear Page a couple of weeks ago about Gary Clark Jr.s custom shop 3 P90 SG.
Upon searching the internet for more information on such a mythical beast the conclusion seems to be that it was indeed the only 3 P90 SG in existance. This just cant be... The world needs more of these.
So in a giving and humanitarian gesture I just added one more to the population.
I had to. It was meant to be.
It's the SG that Gibson never made. Big guard, P90's, witch hats. This thing has 60's written all over it..
Seeing that I had already routed this body from humbuckers to P90's for a previous project, ( it started life as an SGJ) it was only a matter of getting all that pesky wood out in the middle of the way.
Then I made a base for the P90's to mount to. The base is stair stepped, bridge pup is highest neck is lowest.
With the pickups mounted into the wood I don't have to have to deal with the P90 mounting bars and the associated hardware. Nothing's mounted to the pickguard.
Also gives the mounting screws a little more surface to grab onto. I'd hate to have a pickup mounting screw poke thru the back.
A piece of 5 ply blank pickguard material from StewMac and a side trip polarity checking my way thru my P90 drawer and I have come up with a nice set, with a reverse wound reverse polarity middle pickup.
Right now its wired with the neck & bridge pup and the 3 way switch sharing one volume & tone pot and the middle pup has it's own volume & tone pot.
This allows for all pickup positions to be available, with N&M and B&M being hum canceling, just like a Strat.
May try more ambitious wiring schemes like maybe phase reversal on each pup or a pair wired in series.
We'll see...
But for now, It's alive and this sexy beast is all mine...
Upon searching the internet for more information on such a mythical beast the conclusion seems to be that it was indeed the only 3 P90 SG in existance. This just cant be... The world needs more of these.
So in a giving and humanitarian gesture I just added one more to the population.
I had to. It was meant to be.
It's the SG that Gibson never made. Big guard, P90's, witch hats. This thing has 60's written all over it..
Seeing that I had already routed this body from humbuckers to P90's for a previous project, ( it started life as an SGJ) it was only a matter of getting all that pesky wood out in the middle of the way.
Then I made a base for the P90's to mount to. The base is stair stepped, bridge pup is highest neck is lowest.
With the pickups mounted into the wood I don't have to have to deal with the P90 mounting bars and the associated hardware. Nothing's mounted to the pickguard.
Also gives the mounting screws a little more surface to grab onto. I'd hate to have a pickup mounting screw poke thru the back.
A piece of 5 ply blank pickguard material from StewMac and a side trip polarity checking my way thru my P90 drawer and I have come up with a nice set, with a reverse wound reverse polarity middle pickup.
Right now its wired with the neck & bridge pup and the 3 way switch sharing one volume & tone pot and the middle pup has it's own volume & tone pot.
This allows for all pickup positions to be available, with N&M and B&M being hum canceling, just like a Strat.
May try more ambitious wiring schemes like maybe phase reversal on each pup or a pair wired in series.
We'll see...
But for now, It's alive and this sexy beast is all mine...
