I'm planning to put together a Warmoth Strat clone with a superwide neck and vintage flat mount bridge, with STK-S4 pickups . The neck is 1 7/8 inches at the nut, and the bridge has 2 1/4 inch string spacing (according to Warmoth). The spec sheet for the STK-S4 shows that the outer pole pieces are spaced 2.07 inches center-to-center.
Is there a chance of an alignment problem between the strings and the pole pieces? The bridge pickup in particular concerns me, as the slant means that the effective center-to-center spacing of the pole pieces is some amount less than the spec says. The only person I've found who used the 1 7/8 inch neck had no problems, but he used a tremolo bridge with modern (narrow) string spacing.
My real problem is that I don't know how much tolerance there is for misalignment between the pole pieces and the strings. I'm a long time (and old) steel string and classical guitar player, and this will be only my second electric. I've been playing a Godin Progression for about eight months, but I haven't mucked with it any so I haven't yet gotten any experience with the technical end of these things.
Is there a chance of an alignment problem between the strings and the pole pieces? The bridge pickup in particular concerns me, as the slant means that the effective center-to-center spacing of the pole pieces is some amount less than the spec says. The only person I've found who used the 1 7/8 inch neck had no problems, but he used a tremolo bridge with modern (narrow) string spacing.
My real problem is that I don't know how much tolerance there is for misalignment between the pole pieces and the strings. I'm a long time (and old) steel string and classical guitar player, and this will be only my second electric. I've been playing a Godin Progression for about eight months, but I haven't mucked with it any so I haven't yet gotten any experience with the technical end of these things.
