String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

[jalguitarman]

Hi All. I have a PRS SE Zach Myers that I seriously thinking might be a good candidate for a set of Seymours Antiquity Humbucker (or a set of the BKP Abraxas). I could not kind it on the Duncan site but what is the standard pole piece spacing of them? If I go this route I would really need trembuclker spacing as the strings are spaced wider than a a typical Les Paul. Thank you.

 

[jeremy]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

antiquities are only available in std spacing as far as i know. great pups but quite different than the abraxas

 

[jalguitarman]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

antiquities are only available in std spacing as far as i know. great pups but quite different than the abraxas

Bummer. And yes those are very different sets. I am debating as which one I will like the best.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

The neck pickup is ridiculously good, but the bridge is thin anyways. So you might like only the neck.

 

[AJK1]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

Hi All. I have a PRS SE Zach Myers that I seriously thinking might be a good candidate for a set of Seymours Antiquity Humbucker (or a set of the BKP Abraxas). I could not kind it on the Duncan site but what is the standard pole piece spacing of them? If I go this route I would really need trembuclker spacing as the strings are spaced wider than a a typical Les Paul. Thank you.

It's not hard to work out that all his 6 string bridge pickups are standard spacing unless it says trembucker....

 

[jalguitarman]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

It's not hard to work out that all his 6 string bridge pickups are standard spacing unless it says trembucker....

i am not exactly certain what that is exactly, 49.2 or 50mm? Only know that it's not F Spaced.

 

[Clint 55]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

It sez Duncan humbuckers have 49mm string spacing and trembuckers have 52.6mm.

https://www.seymourduncan.com/faqs/what-does-trembucker-mean-and-how-is-it-different-from-humbucker

 

[Discharged]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

Hi All. I have a PRS SE Zach Myers the strings are spaced wider than a a typical Les Paul. Thank you.

That's not the case. Measure the string spacing, it should be around 52.5mm, which is exactly the spacing on a LP, or any guitar with a TOM bridge, for that matter.

You don't "need" a trembucker, unless you suffer of OCD.

/Peter

 

[jalguitarman]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

That's not the case. Measure the string spacing, it should be around 52.5mm, which is exactly the spacing on a LP, or any guitar with a TOM bridge, for that matter.

You don't "need" a trembucker, unless you suffer of OCD.

/Peter

But the pickup spacing is narrower than the string spacing. I have heard that this is not always a good thing. OCD? Isn't there a reason they make pickups with pole spacing to accommodate the wider spacing? You are correct that modern Tune o magic bridges are spaced at that width ( I forgot about that), but has this always been the case? I thought this spacing was something that has occurred somewhere in the last 15 years. Which to me would make no real sense for Gibson to do that and yet keep the same traditional spacing on their pickups, not that it would be a shock if they did.

 

[AlexR]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

You don't need to match.

Magnetic fields operate far beyond the poles, which is why in most cases it is only OCD issues that cause people to want wider spaced pickups. Even 52mm places the string barely 2mm wider.......and unless you've done zero thinking about the issue you can easily imagine that is still within the diameter of the pole, and of course wider than that is the winding of the pickup - the actual part which is generating the signal.

 

[jalguitarman]

Re: String spacing on Antiquity Humbuckers.

You don't need to match.

Magnetic fields operate far beyond the poles, which is why in most cases it is only OCD issues that cause people to want wider spaced pickups. Even 52mm places the string barely 2mm wider.......and unless you've done zero thinking about the issue you can easily imagine that is still within the diameter of the pole, and of course wider than that is the winding of the pickup - the actual part which is generating the signal.

Understood, I suppose I just like to make sure there is no room for anything to be off. So yes maybe a little OCD but, if it's really not that big a thing them ok. I guess I will be getting some therapy now! j/k