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The Lollars are great, but a lot of money for P90s. You can get a hand-wound set from Creamery for £160 and they’ll be as nice as anything Lollar can sell you.
Wiring harness worth replacing if the quality isn’t great. I’m not sure how much of an impact it has on sound, but a good quality harness with CTS pots, Switchcraft switch and socket, vintage-style wiring, orange drops etc. will be working and hassle-free long after budget wiring and components have started crackling and falling to bits.
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Yeah, I was looking at the Creamery ones as well. One advantage of the Lollars is they offer a bridge pup that has the pole pieces spaced for Fenders. The factory P90 that's currently in there definitely isn't, it's narrower than it ought to be for a Tele.
A guitar tech I spoke to was adamant that wiring / jacks / pots / caps was always something he'd do for tone reasons on his own guitars (though we were talking about Squiers and Epiphones and that sort of thing, upgrading cheaper guitars).
Regal
Resolved to get the offset Tele sorted finally (it needs a new nut and the frets levelled - things that have been bothering me since day one - and I'm going to try compensated brass saddles). I like the standard P90 pups, they are very underwound and retain a lot of "tele-ness", but I have to admit the Gibson ones in the Iommi SG are richer and fuller sounding.
Would a pair of Lollar 50s-wind P90s and better pots/caps be overkill / pretentious / a waste of money?