{"id":28,"date":"2009-01-06T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T20:13:10","slug":"selecting-the-correct-lollar-p-90-dogear-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/selecting-the-correct-lollar-p-90-dogear-pickups\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting the Correct Lollar P-90 Dogear Pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The P-90 Dogear is one of the most problematic pickups to determine which a guitar needs. They can also be more difficult to adjust compared with other pickup types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some guitars have the strings higher off the body than others, if the neck joint is like a traditional archtop with a fingerboard extension, the guitar will often take a tall Dog Ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the guitar has a neck joint like a Gibson ES 335, the fingerboard is at the same level as the top of the guitar so it typically needs a short Dogear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a side-by-side comparison, it’s easy to see the difference between
the “tall” Dogear on the left and “short” version on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The short Dogear cover is .2\u201d tall with pole spacing of 1 7\/8\u201d, as opposed to the tall pickup cover is .452\u201d tall with pole spacing of- 1 31\/32\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Some examples in practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ES 5<\/strong>, ES 295<\/strong>\u00a0and early ES 175<\/strong>\u00a0models use tall Dogears. ES 330<\/strong>\u00a0uses a short<\/strong> neck and a tall<\/strong> bridge. Older ES 125<\/strong>\u00a0models need a pickup that is neither short nor tall and needs to be custom made. I do not supply pickup covers for these; you have to re-use the old cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When measuring your instrument for replacement pickups, you need to measure both the string height in relation to the top of the guitar AND the original pickup covers, taking into account string spacing. Instruments with arched tops will vary from one to the next and no two are exactly the same; there is no one-size-fits-all solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To help ensure optimal height in relation to the strings, we also make shims that are exactly the shape and size of our Dogear cover footprint. They are only offered in black acrylic or forbon (depending on thickness) and are available in .0325,\u201d .0625,\u201d .1,\u201d .125,\u201d and .25\u201d thickness. You can stack the shims if they need to be thicker. Sometimes you have to make a riser block out of wood like on the old 295 bridge pickup. There is also a shim that is \u201coversized\u201d for use when you are installing a Dogear style pickup into a guitar that has been routed for a humbucker sized pickup. It spans the extra width of the humbucker route, and adds an extra distance of 3\/32\u201d all the way around. It\u2019s cut out of 1\/32\u201d thick material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the above sizes are available together in a single shim pack, which can be purchased directly – found HERE<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The P-90 Dogear is one of the most problematic pickups to determine which a guitar needs. They can also be more difficult to adjust compared with other pickup types. Some guitars have the strings higher off the body than others, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[258,261,273,269,12],"tags":[17,18,19],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","category-p90","category-pickup-position","category-tech-support","category-technical","tag-p-90-dog-ear","tag-p-90-dogear","tag-p-90-shims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dogears-closeup-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3INU8-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lollarguitars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}