bare knuckle missisipi queen or seymour phat cat p90?

which you prefer and what's the main differences?

I gotta tell ya, the seymour phat cat is a pitiful immiatation of a regular sized P90, lots of better options... never tried the bare knuckle but it has to be better. Pretty much the duncan and gibson bucker-sized 90s are the original and worst of this type of pickup. One pickup that really shocked me was Fralin split coil, hum cancelling P90 in a humbucker case. it sounds really close and its noise free. Something you will experience with P90s and Dearmonds (and any other big coil, bar magnet single) is that even if you shield the guitar cavities thoroughly and shield the pickup covers (a humbucker sized P90 is already shielded if the case is metal) you will STILL eperience ridiculously high nosie levels on a modern stage thanks to all the smrt phones in the audience. You can control shit when you're recording and get the hum down to sane, 90s elvels by turning off phones and wireless routers, but you can't do that ons tage. I toured with P90s in my arsenal for eyars and they slowly beame intolerably noisy when everyone started buying iPhones and Androids. I took soem time off and then after moving to DC I joined a local band. I did the first show with my SG, it was great. The next show I took my 50s RI gretsch with dearmonds and a vitnage wired tele where there's no hum cancelling position... big sitake. The tele barely got me through teh show, but the gretsch was unusable thanks to all the RFI. So that's my .02 on overwound single coils in general. they're a liability for stage work because we've reached an era where the interference is as loud as the guitar signal the minute you start adding enough gain to compress or distort yor signal. Unless you're playing dead clean that P90 guitar will be very difficult when it coems tos tage work.