So guitar players had more pickups than they could imagine, and they were moving them all over the place. Soon after Seymour in the very early 80's, there were more than just Dimarzios around, and not long after that everybody everywhere was making pickups. Long ago there were two kinds of electric guitars, Fenders and Gibsons.ДЇender's singles had a pole spacing and Gibson's humbuckers had another. I forgot to lecture arrogantly on guitar history, so, you know. So wondering if anyone else ever looked at this as a quality check and most importantly if you think it makes much difference tone/soundwise? Might be able to center the string better over that pole by lowering bridge and the pickup on that side, but may cause a problem with string height off fingerboard? Something I have overlooked for years in doing my own set-ups. My bridges are all a little higher on that side because the string is thicker so to get correct string height and distance from bottom of string to pole piece I have to raise the bridge on the bass side higher than the treble side. One thing I noticed is that most often the low E is off center. However since that guitar has a floating bridge I can probably loosen the strings, budge the bridge over a little and they will all be pretty close. And lastly an L-5 that I paid almost $10K for, both neck and bridge pups, all six strings way off. Bridge pup low E,A,D good other 3 strings pretty far off. Now to the expensive stuff: CS 356 Neck pup low E and A off, other four good. LP Lite Bridge pup good except high E, Neck middle four good, both Es off center. LP Standard Bridge pickup all good - Neck middle four strings good, low and high Es pretty far off. $300 Tele low E,A,D,G line up pretty good, B and high E pretty far off. So I thought I would take a look at my guitars and see how they lined up.

Pretty sure if Joe ordered a custom guitar from anyone they would be pretty picky about the build hoping he would love and endorse it, whereas the rest of us buying production line guitars get what we get. He pointed out that all the strings ran right over the center of the pole pieces on the pickups and mentioned that a lot of manufacturers don't bother to check that and put the pickups a little off center. I stumbled across a youtube vid with Joe Walsh talking about a Carvin guitar he had made.

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