Everybody should have one. At least a Special, preferably a regular P90 LP too, or a Tribute...
And maybe one with a P90 neck and a humbucker at the bridge...
Of course, some might want a min hum at the bridge with a P90 neck...
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P90s in a guitar are excellent. I built a Warmoth Black Korina body tele with a roasted Maple neck with a pair of Seymour Duncan vintage P90s and a Dimebucker in the middle. Everybody needs a guitar with P90s...........not necessarily a Les Paul.
How on earth do the P90s keep up with the Dimebucker?
In my experimenting I found a P-90 to have the most bass of any pickup I tested making it an ideal choice for the bridge position because there is a very little bass at the bridge position and it needs all the help it can get there .. it is also quite bright and extremely high gain all of which make it an ideal pickup for the bridge ... with that said I found most of those characteristics work against the P-90 in the neck where I found it to be extremely boomy ...
You can hear side by side comparison of Single Coil, P-90, Wide Range, Humbucker and Pearly Gates in bridge, middle and neck positions here ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j80eF85cIDM
Everyone needs a P-90 guitar. They just don't all know it.
Here is my Duncan Vintage P-90B and Custom P90 neck. It's in a ~96 Les Paul Studio Gem series.
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And don't be fooled into thinking P-90's are just for old guy blues rock