Today I had an hour or two free to finally put this thing together.
Start with all the bits required.
bubbap90_parts.jpg
We hgave discussed the best way forward with this and we may want to swap out the magnets to try and adjust the output and tone so I am going to pot the coil now as that is what it is. Normally you would wax pot again once it is asseembled to completely seal off any microphonic response from moving metal parts other than the coil. That will have to wait but I dont think we will need to because it's pretty tight in there and not much room for things to move around.
bubbap90_potting.jpg
While the coil is in the wax for about 10 minutes I can get on with attaching the base plate to the ground on the braided hookup cable.
bubbap90_baseplateground.jpg
After that the hot and ground from the coil get soldered to the start and ends of the pickup coil.
bubbap90_solder.jpg
Now we need some magnets. Alnico 2 and Alnico 5 are the most common in p90's. I'm going with Alnico 5 for this as it's a neck pickup and supposedly gives better highs.
bubbap90_magnets.jpg
More to follow..... hang on. Only 5 att per post it seems.
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