I assume this is a P90 Route?

[Pine Apple Slim]

I got my Epi LP Jr body for my bass project. This one was a nice solid hefty piece of mahogany, nice!
Looks to me like its been routed for a dogear P90 but Im no expert.
Dimensions are 1 7/16"(32mm) x 3 7/16"(89mm). The screw holes are 3 7/8"(97mm) close as I can measure.
Plus there is a piece of foam support glued to the bottom of the cavity.
Cavity is 5/8"(15mm).
If this is the case, then a TV Jones Thundertron-English mount-dogear ring should drop right in.
Thats at the top of my budget tho @ $145.
What else might fit without routing?

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[Elias Graves]

Looks like it used to have a dogear on it. The outside mounting screw holes are there and I see a bit of shadow from the cover pushing into the finish.

 

[joeboy]

Mini Humbucker

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Looks like it used to have a dogear on it. The outside mounting screw holes are there and I see a bit of shadow from the cover pushing into the finish.

Thanks, just trying to confirm my diagosis.

 

[Elias Graves]

I recommend a Duncan Antiquity. Best P90 I've ever played.

 

[Elias Graves]

But, honestly, P90s are hard to screw up. Any decent one will sound killer.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

This is gonna be a bass.
The options that will work without routing that I've found so far are
Mini bucker. Gibson EBO bridge type or Hofner violin bass type.
Gretch Filtertron.
But either of those would leave a lot of exposed real estate in the route.
Would prob have to make some kind of homemade surround.
Hence the TV Jones option w English mount & P90 adapter ring.

 

[Elias Graves]

What about a bass humbucker? You'd have to cut..

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Yep. MM style bucker or reg Pbass pickup will require routing.
I don't really want to buy one. Outside chance I may have a relative with one.

 

[vintage clubber]

why are you using a guitar body for a bass?

 

[Elias Graves]

Check out this idea. Using guitar firebird type mini humbuckers in a bass.


http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/sd-mini-humbuckers-and-the-hofner-beatle-bass/

It's a blade pickup, so it'd work.
And I'll attest to the bass output of the sm3. It's prodigious.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Thanks Elias! That's the kind of info I need.
One SM1 or SM3 might be the ticket.
For a pickup in the middle pos, would you go for a bridge or neck?

 

[Elias Graves]

The sm2 is the high output ceramic model. The sm1 is pretty much a copy of a 63 firebird pickup. The sm3 is interesting. Instead of having bar magnet blades, it uses steel and has the magnet underneath.
The neck pickup version has the same output as the neck sm1 but it is more clear and has deeper bass.
The bridge version of the sm3 is hot but not like the insane 26k hot ones that Gibson uses now. It's like 12k vs 7.5k for the vintage version. The sm3 is also 4 wire. Output drops but the single coil tones it makes are really nice.

This guy has 2 neck sm3 pickups and a bridge model in a strat.





I like the sm3. It's a real sleeper.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Thanks will add the neck SM3 to the mini bucker list.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Got the neck and body mated today without much hassle. Only had to sand the finish off each side of the neck to fit it.

The resulting neck angle is archtop steep so Im gonna sand the base of this flat

Ill have just enough room left over for this

 

[Elias Graves]

Man, you're building a bass just for me? I love it.