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Best guitar pickups ever?

  • Writer: Karma  Factory
    Karma Factory
  • Apr 6, 2021
  • 1 min read

I should start a guitar store as guitars seem to fall in my lap and I have no willpower to say "No". This time it's a Hamer Monaco Korina. I've been wanting a Les Paul Special with P-90's for a long time but just never had the motivation to grab one. Then this LP Special clone from Hamer guitars jumps at me for $350, new out of the box, no case on Ebay. So I grab it. The tone is decent out of the box but I'm not quite happy with the pickups (they're a bit chirpy) or the tuners so I decide to spend a little cash and do some upgrades.<<




I then relined the routed pickup holes with copper tape, removed the old pickups and soldered the new one's in. So for $732 I have a 3.5 pound Korina tone machine that will rival any legit LP Special (which will cost twice as much new).


Lollar P-90's are top notch and many players dismiss the P-90's and go straight for the humbuckers. P-90's however are right in between single coils and humbuckers and can get dirty with distortion like no other single coils. If there were one desert island pickup I'd want, it would be the P-90's as they give you the best of both single coil and humbucker dirty dirty crunch with distortion.

 
 
 

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