What pickup could I put in this little piece of sh..

lovestrat74

For slide. 

Neilybob

Not sure of many pickups available for 5 string guitars lol

Aynsley Lister had a P90 installed on his old semi acoustic 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjU9qkCMRvF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

bobacco

Seymour Duncan Invader. 

TheMarlin

Charlie Christian?  You can get some that mount on the end of the neck 

Winny_Pooh

If you play with OD then a humbucker at the bridge sounds best IMO. But, a dog ear P90 will look right and can be shimmed up suitably. 

lovestrat74

Forgot to say.. Something cheap, dirty and bluesy to match the guitar.

lovestrat74

Neilybob said:

Not sure of many pickups available for 5 string guitars lol

Aynsley Lister had a P90 installed on his old semi acoustic 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjU9qkCMRvF/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 A lol and a wow there! Wonder how that is held in?

Svartmetall

Axerus do a nifty-looking worn copper HB cover, maybe fit something into that?

ICBM

Are you planning to cut a hole in it? If not there's only fairly limited clearance between the strings and the top, which will restrict things. If you are, beware that the top braces might be fairly closely spaced, and a pickup hole might conflict with them. Don't cut through them .

lovestrat74

ICBM said:

Are you planning to cut a hole in it? If not there's only fairly limited clearance between the strings and the top, which will restrict things. If you are, beware that the top braces might be fairly closely spaced, and a pickup hole might conflict with them. Don't cut through them .

Not sure yet, but I'll keep a close eye on it

Funkfingers

Dogear P90 or one of those little Jazz pickups with a fingerboard bracket.

FWIIW, I have a NOS Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith pickup but it is probably worth several times more than the POsh..

Based on a friend's early Sixties ES125, one P90 near the neck should suffice.

elstoof

Kent Armstrong floating

Neilybob

lovestrat74 said:

ICBM said:

Are you planning to cut a hole in it? If not there's only fairly limited clearance between the strings and the top, which will restrict things. If you are, beware that the top braces might be fairly closely spaced, and a pickup hole might conflict with them. Don't cut through them .

Not sure yet, but I'll keep a close eye on it

Maybe something like this with a 10mm height would work by mounting it to the body. 

https://www.mojopickups.co.uk/product/gold-foil-teisco-2/

Or ping Marc at Mojo pickups and see what he suggests? 

prowla

Something surface mounted - not sure if a Ric Toaster would fit?

lovestrat74

Got to be something less than the guitar. Don't see the point of putting £100 pup in a cheap guitar

Grangousier

Perhaps someone has one of those foil-type pickups from a 1960s Woolworths guitar - measuring it, it's about 9mm deep, and you could probably jerry-rig some kind of mount. I have one, but I'm holding on to it in case exactly this sort of thing arises in my life. 



Probably sound terrible, but in an authentic way. 

steamabacus

CH Guitars do a cheap neck-mount humbucker (although currently showing 'out of stock')

https://chguitars.co.uk/product/p56-neck-closed-jazz-guitar-pickup/

lovestrat74

Alegree does one under £30 so I think I'll go down that route. Should be quite a fun (and cheap) mini project!

Crazed_Fandango

I've an old Dimarzio Super Distortion that came out of my 82 Westbury Standard.

lovestrat74

Crazed_Fandango said:

I've an old Dimarzio Super Distortion that came out of my 82 Westbury Standard.

PM me if you want to sell it @Crazed_Fandango ;
 

sweepy

Dog ear P90 ?