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Need opinions about a hybrid Strat build

AprioriMark

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Ok, so.  I have a few Strats that I play fairly often (though less than my Tele or Les Paul). 

One is a cream bodied, Warmoth necked conversion scale maple/rosewood with the active EMG Vince Gill pre-wired pickguard (SPC boost) and a blocked off Strat trem.
One is a pink bodied, Warmoth necked conversion scale maple/ebony with a Duncan humbucker of some sort in the bridge, (soon to be) a Duncan stacked humbucker in the neck and a blocked off Strat trem.
One is an early 90s maple/maple Fender with stock pickups and a two point trem.  I don't know the name of the color, but it's sorta blue, sorta grey, sorta greeny.
I have one build going that will be a HxH Strat, rear routed.  It'll be standard scale and maple/bloodwood with a Wilkeson trem.

Here's what I need advice on: 
I recently purchased a universally routed chambered strat body from a member.  I *really* want to include at least one p90, and I want this guitar to be fairly versatile.  I'd like to have p90/single/humbucker or p90/humbucker/p90 (neck/middle/bridge).  I will split the coil of the humbucker, but I don't use out of phase sounds enough to care about wiring the options.  What opinions or advice do you folks have?  How would you wire it?  I'm leaning towards having an "all on" option if possible.  Please throw me out some ideas.  I'll also mention that I usually play rhythm parts with more than one pickup because of the "hollow" sound.  I really like the bridge/neck combination.  I also like my neck pickup to be the most "ballsy," as that's what I use for leads.  I'm not opposed to a stacked humbucker style p90 in that position.

-Mark
 
Hum I think double P90 look good on Tele, specially on this new carved top tele ;)

But any combination BESIDE P90/H/P90, Townshead did something alike this and ONE is enough for the whole world
 
P-rails?

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I have Prails that I'm slapping in my Jagmaster ( <3 Japanese Fenders) already, so I wanted some *actual* p90s since I already have a universally routed body.

-Mark
 
If I had your guitars I'd go with a combination I don't have.

From bridge to neck:
Tele-strat-P90
Tele-lipstick-P90
2 or 3 P90's
P90-strat-P90
 
Kostas said:
If I had your guitars I'd go with a combination I don't have.

From bridge to neck:
Tele-strat-P90
Tele-lipstick-P90
2 or 3 P90's
P90-strat-P90
I'd go with tele/strat/p90. You'd get some nice tones, assuming you can balance everything.
 
In a universally routed body, aka swimming pool route, the pickups still mount on the pickguard, they just do so in most any combination w/out obstruction.  With P-90s, they direct mount to the body and not to the pickguard.  I don't know how deep the universal route is, but you might need more than just foam to get them to operating height.  Not to mention, get a pickguard P-90 routed.
 
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