Blogging Ottinger (tim)

I am continuing to look at p90s, though it really doesn’t make a lot of sense for me to do so. I got an all-humbucker guitar (Agile P900) for my birthday last month, and last week my friend Jeff gave me one of his collection, a nice hollowbody that FedEx says is on its way up from Texas even now. I really have had all the Gear Acquisition Syndrome I need for a little while. I’m satisfied. Well, after I get some more straplocks and straps and guitar stands and a case for the new addition. I have a collection I’m already not worthy of, being untrained and hardly well-practiced. I want to try to work more on my skills and spend less time on my gear.

My wife was excited for me, that now she thought my collection is “complete”, but I told her that I don’t yet have a P90 guitar or a hybrid. Otherwise, I’ve got all the variety a guy could want. So now, as is my habit, I’m going to spend the next year or two looking at P90 guitars, playing any I can get my hands on at the guitar stores, and digging up pictures and reviews. I’ll make a decision in a year or two, and in the meantime I’ll be happy with all the goodies I have at home.

I was looking at the TC90 again

I also had posted a little article about the godin LG P90, which seems to be a very fine guitar according to Harmony Central.

I also have noticed that MBM has a very hot looking LP-style P90 axe, too (and Jeff recently replied to my note about their guitars):

Of course, I noticed the Agile 3000 (from Rondo):

There are plenty of gold-top-like guitars, from the genuine article at Gibson to the Washburn Idol series and the PRS SE series. I just don’t like gold-top. I like seeing wood grain, and so I am not crazy about any of the thick plastic finishes (paint and polyeurothane I suppose). Gold top in particular is historic and and all, but I want some pretty. I actually like the aesthetics better when there is a black cover instead of the cream that yells out “P90″ to the audience. I might see if I can’t get down to the Washburn factory and see what they have cooking.

I was listening this evening to the recorded samples of Bryan Gunsher’s P90 pickups and the ones over at Duncan’s site. There’s only so much variation on the P90s, but they’ve got a cool sound.

You know what would be cool? A deeply-single-cut, walnut body with a P90 at the bridge and lipstick neck pickup, and black& chrome for the pickguard, plates, and hardware. Or else maybe a swamp ash body. Either way, if the pickups would blend decently it would be an unusual kind of guitar.