P style pickups pole piece spacing

Hi everyone,

I have a Yamaha BB424X and want to replace the P style pickup. Yamaha does their own proprietary pickups with non standard dimensions for the pickup covers. I don't know if this is on purpose to not allow for after market pickup upgrades or if they create pickups specifically for a certain bass assuming that those are the perfect match and don't need to be replaced. Anyway, this is not a big problem because you can seperate the pickups from the covers with a little bit of force since they are only glued in. Most manufacturers produce the pickups with the covers loosely on top and that's perfect in my case. Now the problem on my search for a replacement is: Almost none of the known pickup manufacturers shows the spacing of the pole pieces on the pickup. Only Dimarzio does it: http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/default/files/diagrams/pbcovdim.pdf
I can put the pickups into my Yamaha covers but need to make sure they are spaced like the DiMarzio Model P with .38 inches from pole to pole. So is it safe to say that almost all P style replacement pickups have a pole piece spacing of .38 inches?

Thanks and regards,
Ben

 

Thanks for stopping by. Hope someone has an answer.

 

Sounds like the spacing is pretty universal at round about 10 mm which is great!
Thanks everyone!