Paddynbob

Hey, I play in a heavy metal band Twin Paradox (look us up, yay!) and I play a modded Gibson Les Paul 60s Tribute. If you didn't know, it has soap bar pickups (three in my case), which are cream coloured.

But my band's going for this whole purple and black vibe just now, just to be a bit recognisable and memorable. So, I thought for shits and giggles I'd put purple P90 covers on.

Cant find them anywhere! Nightmare. In fact, there appears to be very little spare P90 parts knocking around at all, probably because they're the least used of the three main electric guitar pickups (wrongly, as not only are they the best pickup, they are the greatest thing on the earth - and that includes marshmallows and Hayley Williams).

Any suggestions? Preferably in the UK, but anywhere else in fine.

Merci :P

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bburritt1

Just get black replacement pickup covers and paint them.....thats what i would do.

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Paddynbob

would using the cream ones not be more effective?

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Robbgnarly

Paint them

I wanna see some pic's of the LP after you had the mod done for the 3rd pickup

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mmolteratx

Yea, I'd paint over the cream ones.

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bburritt1

Yeah but what if he wants to keep the guitars original stuff untainted?

Either way doesnt matter. Some collectors like "all original hardware" thats why i mentioned getting replacements in case he wasnts to sell the thing down the road. Just thinking ahead.

PLus i like having lots of spare parts around. Its just fun!

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GaryBillington

Think I'd get some relatively cheap ones & do the paint job on them - if it was me, I wouldn't want to do it to the original Gibson pickups in case I wanted to get it back to how it was originally.

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bburritt1

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Paddynbob

Haha, when you see how modded it is you might see why i don't have that concern

when i can eventually get it to upload

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bburritt1

Right on man. Just givin ya hell. mod the hell outta it!!!!!

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Paddynbob

Im afraid its iPod quality photo

http://s1352.beta.photobucket.com/u...html?sort=3&o=0

http://s1352.beta.photobucket.com/u...html?sort=3&o=1

http://s1352.beta.photobucket.com/u...html?sort=3&o=3

Sexy or sexy?

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Paddynbob

Looking to mod some more too :P check out the pics, they is sexy as ****

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Robbgnarly

Looks good. I'm not a 3 pickup LP guy, but the mod looks like it was stock.

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Paddynbob

Got the only fully licenced gibson tech in scotland to do it the mod routing was better than the stock routing. On a carved top, too

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lbj273

So purple and black is the theme, are you going to paint the guitar black them?

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Paddynbob

Christ knows... could do, haha. We could incorporate some white, I guess. Or I could make the pickups black purple black... or purple black purple

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SimplyBen

This.

Or paint it purple and just get black P90 covers?

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Paddynbob

I don't know - Im a big fan of the worn look I've got going on with the stock finish. Im considering the refinishing though

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MrFlibble

Purple and black isn't terribly memorable, unless you've never heard of, um, every alternative pop, rock and metal band from the 80s and virtually every modern band in Europe Hell, when I was a 15-year-old goth kid, everything I owned was black & purple. Black and purple is pretty much the single most common colour combination for alternative and goth stuff. Right now, The Birthday Massacre are the main abusers of it.


As for adding white, that certainly does work well, or at least, I think so. After all, I put this together:



Some people hate it, some love it. Personally, I loved it until I got bored and took some paint stripper to it. Still trying to decide what to do with those pickups.


But, to answer the question, no, there are no purple soapbar covers around. Believe me, I've looked for years. Buying stark white ones (which are rare themeslves) and painting them purple is the only option.


... And just to fry your brain: Hayley Williams covered in marshmallow. There, now choose.

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