Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

[Adieu]

Guitar center, whatcha smoking????

https://www.guitarcenter.com/DiMarz...=item_page.rrt1|PersonalizedClickCPInCategory



Uhm, NO, kiddies, nut size is NOT how you determine whether you need F-spaced pickups.

 

[dave74]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Well I've caught Sweetwater on some goofy stuff too, like four 60w speakers = 300w total.
I get the feeling many of the ad writers are not gear junkies themselves lol.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

And which nut do we measure anyway? The one that hangs lower or the one that sits higher?

 

[dave74]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

And which nut do we measure anyway? The one that hangs lower or the one that sits higher?

They need to be mashed together to form an average.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

They need to be mashed together to form an average.

Right then, never mind the Petruccis... I think I can live with Distortion/Demon or 85X/81

 

[BriGuy1968]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Hmmmmm... I always assumed that pickup selection had to do with both nut length AND girth. It’s the whole reason why I’ve always felt that I needed to avoid mini humbuckers.

I guess you learn something new every day!

 

[Artie]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Don't DMZ's sound better when mounted up by the nut?

 

[Adieu]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Hmmmmm... I always assumed that pickup selection had to do with both nut length AND girth. It’s the whole reason why I’ve always felt that I needed to avoid mini humbuckers.

I guess you learn something new every day!

Yer all wrong, what really counts is the RADIUS

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Sounds like someone's just petty because they have a smaller nut size...

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Guitar center now carrying : Pickups...for 43mm ***NUT***

Technically, you can use string spacing at the nut, string spacing at the bridge, scale length, and the location of each pickup along that scale length to determine the ideal pole spacing for each pickup position.

And technically, the ideal pole spacing might change when string spacing changes, and all else is kept equal.

That said, why do the geometry equations when you can just use a ruler to measure E to E over each pickup?