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Am considering throwing a P-90 of some sort into my FrankenStrat, and I realise I have no idea if they are normally paired with a 250k or 500k pot. Or does it not even matter?

I use 500's with mine

I always use 500k for tone, you can always back it off a bit. I would try 500 for volume and if you find it too spikey then solder a 510k resistor across the outer terminals of vol the pot.

I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

I did that with a Strat upgrade recently. Not sure I could tell the difference and it made the job more fiddly (I start out with the best of intentions but end up melting something).

Often thought about a Strat with three P90s. Bet that'd be cool.

Molly wrote:

Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

I did that with a Strat upgrade recently. Not sure I could tell the difference and it made the job more fiddly (I start out with the best of intentions but end up melting something).

Often thought about a Strat with three P90s. Bet that'd be cool.

I saw a photo somewhere a while ago of Eddie Van Halen playing a Tele with what appeared to be 3 P90's.

Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

I had them on a guitar for several years. Was happy with them but found I mostly just used the P90 so I changed to them haha!

Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

The P-Rails do a lot of tones, but none of them well

jeremyb wrote:

Richy11 wrote:I've never tried resistors across any of the pots, might have to give it a crack. Also considered a Seymour Duncan P-Rail, but haven't heard much about them. Or even seen one in a guitar as of yet.

The P-Rails do a lot of tones, but none of them well

This.

500k pots for me too, I like to tame the kerrrang with the tone pot

500k generally gives up a bit more top end.. If you are looking for a non Gibson p90 the Harmonic Design made versions are very cool.. I put a hum sized model in a crappy 90 epi Coronet that I use for slide and it sounds killer..

And welcome Mr W!