I picked up this PRS McCarty Soapbar off ebay. The guy sold it as having the original pickups but when I took them out to have a look, and whipped off the control plate as you do, I discovered that the pickups had been changed. So I told the seller and he paypalled me a nice partial refund!
The pickups are unbranded but they're vintage level ohmage and as far as I can tell are early Fralins. The guitar has had a refret, which is very well done and has no fretwear at all, plus a new bone nut and it has the PRS fully intonatable bridge. Nice dark 'board as well.
The guitar has some 'mojo' i.e. a few small dings and marks here and there but nothing major or serious. It's also had the lacquer removed from the back of the neck, which makes for a nice-feeling playing experience. I've played a couple of gigs with it and it sounds superb with a huge variety of tones available - obviously the classic P90 graunch plus ballsy Tele'ish tone, Strat-front-pickup-alike, to almost LP humbucker sounds. And it's not too noisy either, even with some gain.
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Good gas sir
Great GAS indeed.
Great GAS indeed. [/quote]
They originally fitted sp90-1s in the first run and the feedback they got back was they didn't balance that well so switched to the sp90-3 in the bridge and that configuration stayed until they were discontinued.
The coolest of all PRSs for me.
Great GAS indeed. [/quote]
They originally fitted sp90-1s in the first run and the feedback they got back was they didn't balance that well so switched to the sp90-3 in the bridge and that configuration stayed until they were discontinued. [/quote]
Happen to have a pair of SD P90s labelled on their rears as
I7D69 P90 PRS X BRIDGE 20100127
I7G43 P90 PRS X NECK 20100126
Bridge measures 15.8k and neck measures 11.2k.