Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: chrisheyes on January 16, 2007, 12:15:23 AM

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: chrisheyes on January 16, 2007, 12:15:23 AM

I've just dropped a BKP92 into my Tokai Les Paul Special

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/chrisheyes/LSS100%20Tokai/LSS100front.jpg)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/chrisheyes/LSS100%20Tokai/IMG_5840.jpg)

Can anyone offer advise on how to adjust the pickup height on these P90
style pickups so that I can get a better ballance with the neck pickup.
At present the pickup screws directly to the body.

Should I put some packing under the pickup to raise its height or raise the individual pole pieces ?

Cheers

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: Twinfan on January 16, 2007, 08:36:03 AM

I'd do a combination of both.  Raise the pickup first, and if you need more height pull the polepieces out a tad.

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: PhilKing on January 16, 2007, 12:28:49 PM

Gibson used to use a foam pad under the bridge pickups in the early guitars. In later models they made the rear pickup sit higher with a spaced inside the pickup.  BK make copies of the original pickups, so you will need to add a foam pad underneath.  The other thing you can do is put the Strat pickup tubing around the mounting screws before you put the pickup into the guitar.

I have a friend who always screws the pole pieces out a lot to compenstate, but I really don't like this look and prefer to pad the pickup to raise it.

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: Philly Q on January 16, 2007, 12:44:58 PM

Off topic Chris, but is that a TonePros bridge or a Pigtail?

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: chrisheyes on January 16, 2007, 12:55:22 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

Off topic Chris, but is that a TonePros bridge or a Pigtail?

Well spotted Pilly Q - It's a Pigtail

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: chrisheyes on January 16, 2007, 12:58:46 PM

Thanks for the advise PhilKing & Twinfan

I'll give putting some compressible material under the pickup.

At present the bridge pickup is way too much  treble/top in comparison
with the deep woody Gotoh LP-OLD stock neck pickup.

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: Philly Q on January 16, 2007, 01:08:31 PM

Quote from: chrisheyes

Well spotted Philly Q - It's a Pigtail

Thought so!  :D  

They're excellent bridges, I've got one on an SG and one on my Melody Maker.  The TonePros looks almost identical but the Pigtail's much lighter.

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: Twinfan on January 16, 2007, 01:15:57 PM

The P-92 is a hot BKP-90, so I'm not surprised it's very different from the neck pickup......

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: chrisheyes on January 17, 2007, 01:37:03 PM

Quote from: Twinfan

The P-92 is a hot BKP-90, so I'm not surprised it's very different from the neck pickup......

It's different in a unexpected way - Lower output than the neck and considerably brighter than the pickup it replaced

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: ToneMonkey on January 18, 2007, 10:19:51 AM

Out of curiosity, could you tell me how deep the routes are in your guitar.  I'm just about to route for P90's in a guitar that I'm building and I'd like to double check my measurements.  Cheers mate.

Title: P90 Style Pickup Adjustment
Post by: chrisheyes on January 21, 2007, 08:04:19 PM

Quote from: ToneMonkey

Out of curiosity, could you tell me how deep the routes are in your guitar.  I'm just about to route for P90's in a guitar that I'm building and I'd like to double check my measurements.  Cheers mate.

Bridge pickup = 16mm depth

Neck pickup = 20mm depth