F spacing?
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JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: F spacing?
If the stickers say “SH-2/4”, no they’re not. If the stickers said “TB-2/4” then they would be.
It’s referring to the spacing of the pole pieces. F=Fender spaced, which is slightly wider. TB= Trembucker, which is Duncan’s name for F spacing.
You can tell the potential buyer that it’s purely aesthetic, which is true, but they likely won’t believe you.
If the stickers say “SH-2/4”, no they’re not. If the stickers said “TB-2/4” then they would be.
It’s referring to the spacing of the pole pieces. F=Fender spaced, which is slightly wider. TB= Trembucker, which is Duncan’s name for F spacing.
You can tell the potential buyer that it’s purely aesthetic, which is true, but they likely won’t believe you.
TinPan
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Re: F spacing?
Im guessing that I measure from the center of each poll, if so then these are 50mm, if measuring from the edge of the polls then they are 53mm.
Im guessing that I measure from the center of each poll, if so then these are 50mm, if measuring from the edge of the polls then they are 53mm.
TinPan
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Re: F spacing?
I no longer have the box's for them but the stickers on the underside of pups themselves say this: 121DY SH-2N Neck and 121DY SH-4. It might help if he told me what guitar it's going in.... I can find out
I no longer have the box's for them but the stickers on the underside of pups themselves say this: 121DY SH-2N Neck and 121DY SH-4. It might help if he told me what guitar it's going in.... I can find out
Gtrjunior
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Re: F spacing?
Measure from where the string would be centerd over the pole.
What guitar did this come out of?
Also I think somebody above mentions the stickers on the base plate.
If the pickup model # has an SH designation it’s standard (50mm)
If it has a TB, it is F spaced.
Measure from where the string would be centerd over the pole.
What guitar did this come out of?
Also I think somebody above mentions the stickers on the base plate.
If the pickup model # has an SH designation it’s standard (50mm)
If it has a TB, it is F spaced.
Gtrjunior
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TinPan
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Ascension
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Re: F spacing?
Not purely for the looks only. Was a hair band guy running Super Strats and a Floyd back in the day so know why this was done in the first place. If you were running a Super Strat with a high gain amp doing a lot of bends and using the trem aggressively you lost some signal with your E strings at times because they were off the poll pieces. I was running a couple Carvins back in teh day with thier M22 SD mine didn't have the issue others running conventioanl pickups dis so Duncan and Dimarzio gave us the wider F and trembucker poll spacings ( at least those 2 were the first I saw who did) as a solution.
Not purely for the looks only. Was a hair band guy running Super Strats and a Floyd back in the day so know why this was done in the first place. If you were running a Super Strat with a high gain amp doing a lot of bends and using the trem aggressively you lost some signal with your E strings at times because they were off the poll pieces. I was running a couple Carvins back in teh day with thier M22 SD mine didn't have the issue others running conventioanl pickups dis so Duncan and Dimarzio gave us the wider F and trembucker poll spacings ( at least those 2 were the first I saw who did) as a solution.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: F spacing?
It’s interesting that some people heard signal loss in that instance, when no one has any issues with bending and misalignment.
It’s interesting that some people heard signal loss in that instance, when no one has any issues with bending and misalignment.
Hsb
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Re: F spacing?
Ive had two guitars, one with a floyd and another with a trem spaced TOM, both of them have had standard spaced SD Distortions in them and I have not heard the first bit of loss. Granted the one with Floyd was stolen years ago, so memory is a bit fuzzy on that one but my Iceman has the wider spaced TOM bridge with a standard Distortion, I hear absolutely no loss.
Ive had two guitars, one with a floyd and another with a trem spaced TOM, both of them have had standard spaced SD Distortions in them and I have not heard the first bit of loss. Granted the one with Floyd was stolen years ago, so memory is a bit fuzzy on that one but my Iceman has the wider spaced TOM bridge with a standard Distortion, I hear absolutely no loss.
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