Slanting Humbucker

[gemil]

Hi Room

Does anyone here Slant there Humbuckers?

Or do they leave them level for the Bass / Treble Sides?

If so which end do you slant?

Thanks

Lee

 

[gianniboy]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

Hi, most of the older guitars had slanted buckers at the bridge because the bridge was a trem, the bucker was slanted because the trem bridge has different spacing alittle wider then a normal bridge, therefore they slanted it to line up the the strings with the pole pieces of the pickup......now they make trem spaced pickups (with slighty wider spacing),so you dont have to slant the pickup.
Having said that, if your building a guitar you could slant the bucker, if you are using a tremolo bridge, you can get a pickup designed for that type of bridge, seymour duncan has them, they are called trembuckers.
sound wise....if you get the wrong pickup, it might sound weak and thin.
I got a kramer barretta, its got a slanted bucker.....it rocks

 

[SpiderVenom]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

+1 to what he said.

The only use for slanting humbuckers these days, (excepting appearance) is if you have a bridge pickup that just doesn't come in trem-spacing.

 

[Davey]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

having a trem spaced pup or not makes no diference what so ever, especialy if you have a higher output pickup

but the original poster wasnt asking about that i think. he was asking if the height of the pickup is the same on the bass and treble side (pickup is level) or if any side is higer than the other.


i got it level and slightly adjust the individual pole pieces of the pickup.

 

[SpiderVenom]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

but the original poster wasnt asking about that i think. he was asking if the height of the pickup is the same on the bass and treble side (pickup is level) or if any side is higer than the other.

On revision, it seems to me like he's asking which end, bass or treble, people slant towards the headstock...

 

[Davey]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

well.. it's impossible to tell from that post to be honest

 

[SpiderVenom]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

well.. it's impossible to tell from that post to be honest

Hmm, now I'm starting to see what you mean, about height slanting... :smack:

 

[ErikH]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

He's talking about height, not the other slant.

I like mine to be level with the strings.

 

[shredaholic]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

it depends on the pickup really, especially with scatter wound ones - every pickup has it's own custom uniquness so you have to play with the height gradually until your ears find the magic...

if you're talking about slanting the pickup so one side is closer to the bridge, then I do actually do that with my bridge pickup so it's closer to the bridge at the treble side. my pickups on my custom Warmoth are:

Humbucker, x, Angled Humbucker

looks really cool and unique as I've never seen anyone do that before, but it's more than perfect for me

 

[ErikH]

Re: Slanting Humbucker

it depends on the pickup really, especially with scatter wound ones - every pickup has it's own custom uniquness so you have to play with the height gradually until your ears find the magic...

if you're talking about slanting the pickup so one side is closer to the bridge, then I do actually do that with my bridge pickup so it's closer to the bridge at the treble side. my pickups on my custom Warmoth are:

Humbucker, x, Angled Humbucker

looks really cool and unique as I've never seen anyone do that before, but it's more than perfect for me

Kramer did that on one of the Aerostar models in the '80's. They were part of the cheapo Korean line. Other than that, you're right, I don't recall any others that had dual humbuckers with a slanted bridge bucker.