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Gibson has them made to the spec you can get them through sweetwater. A set of 60's P90's are not cheap.

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
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Have you considered custom winding your own to a similar spec?

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Brad
Avon, OH

No helpful suggestions here beyond what has already been offered, but I am curious: For your L-5 project guitar?
Patrick

I can't say enough good things about Pete Biltoft at Vintage Vibe: http://www.vintagevibeguitars.com/pickups.html. He can make you whatever you want and I have no doubt he could make a set of P-90s that would be better than a set of vintage Gibbys, even if you could find them, and for less money than what vintage pieces are commanding these days. He made a set of P-90s for a buddy's Gibson (that had the original P-90s in it) and it is a totally different guitar: better clarity, less noise, more "air", bigger frequency response. I used a set of his Charlie Christian-style pickups in a custom build and everybody that played it was impressed.

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I use the 1957 and 1959
they are actuall Gibson pickups the stew mac won't hold a candle to them. I prefer the 57's in a less paul

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
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You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

Don't know if this is useful, but the Dogear P90's in my 1967 ES125tdc measure 14.5 K at the output jack when selected to neck or bridge. This really surprised me.

The single pickup in my 1954 ES125 reads 7.5K

All the modern P90's I have measure 7.5K to 8.5K (bridge being higher) Lollars, SD, GFS

No help here, either. But if you're looking for the tone on Freddy King's early "Gold Top" King recordings, so am I. Let me know what you find.

Throbak

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Ken

What year? Big difference between 61 and 69.
what happened to the old one. do you still have it?
Stew Mac pickups don't make sense in this context.

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Ken

Novaks or Lollars would be a good choice, or vintage if you can find them at a non insane price.

http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/Hum-90.shtml

http://www.lollarguitars.com/mm5/mercha ... 90-pickups

while all the pick ups do have their place , when you are going for that GIBBY SOUND you need the gibson pickups. Not knocking any of the pick ups mentioned as I like them myself .

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/IMP9RBC/
If you call them , they are very helpful. I Used 1957 P90 and 1959 P94's
I used them in a les paul , The real Gibson pickups have a slightly different tone to my ear.

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

Of course it is all subjective but imo the modern gibson pickups are not quite "the gibby sound" moreso than any of the choices given. He is asking about a vintage gibson guitar that was made in Kalamazoo, and the modern pickups are far from that. I think Seymour Duncan makes more vintage sounding pickups than Gibson does now.

You have got a vintage instrument from Kalamazoo.
Can you use the old one and have it rewound?

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Ken