Which P90ish single coil for my faux Esquire?

[M@tt C]

After reading up on how cool Esquires were, I pulled the neck pickup on my CIJ '62 Custom reissue today, and decided I wanted to definitely wanted to go in a raunchy/ rock direction with the bridge pickup to complete the transformation. The stock Japanese pickup is just too thin, and needs a boost just to get some decent gain going on with my JCM 800. I really dig P90's, so I'm looking to go that direction.


After a lot of research, I've got things narrowed down to:

Harmonic Design S90
Duncan Quarter Pounder
Rio Grande Dirty Harry
Klein Fat Man
Thoughts? Other suggestions?

[coldfingaz]

HD S90 (& follow their advice on pot values... which I can't recall offhand)

[dannyboy2.0]

HD S90 is a wicked nice pickup for an Esquire; I had one for a while and for some silly reason swapped it out. Be sure to ground it and you will be fine - grind and crunch when full-on and still cleans up very nicely for those quiet times... ;-)