Placement of adjutable coil side

[miika]

Hi, I've noticed that the adjustable side of a humbucker (the coil with the screws) is usually turned towards the bridge for the brigde PU, and the neck for the neck PU. Is there any specific reason for this? I plan to coil split the HB's on my Gibson Explorer, would there be any specific reason to turn the PU's in any specific way? BR /miika

 

[Artie]

Re: Placement of adjutable coil side

Hi Miika; welcome to the forum. I'm gonna guess that it was done that way initially for purely aesthetic reasons. But if I wanted to make a good "tech" reason, I'd say that the stud coil has a slightly stronger signal than the screw coil, since the screws, extending out the bottom, tend to focus some of the magnetic field away from the strings. So, on the bridge, they place the stronger coil forward to get a better "bite" of the string vibration. Then they place the neck to be symetrically eye-pleasing.

Just a guess.

Artie

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Placement of adjutable coil side

Or maybe they place the neck to be a bit brighter (screws towards the neck) and the bridge gets flipped for aesthetic reasons

 

[miika]

Re: Placement of adjutable coil side

Thanks for the comments!