Tilting a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB on a Guitar With Straight Humbuckers

[Rad Punk Dude]

I have a Kurt Cobain Jaguar with two straight DiMarzio pickups. I'm thinking I want to switch them out with Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB pickups and tilt the bridge pickup. Its similar to what Billie Joe did on his guitar "Blue" except he already had a tilted bridge pickup that was a single-coil. Since I would be replacing a straight pickup I would have to cover up the old cavity by gluing some wood in it and then make a new cavity for the tilted humbucker. Would doing this with the bridge pickup cavity affect the tonal quality badly or do anything else negative?

 

[punx77]

Re: Tilting a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB on a Guitar With Straight Humbuckers

Don't do it. It's not worth the trouble. He did it because there was a reason to. Find your own style instead.

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Tilting a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB on a Guitar With Straight Humbuckers

Yeah. Good chance you'll ruin your guitar in the process.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Tilting a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB on a Guitar With Straight Humbuckers

Why not just bend the legs of the PU to tilt it? I use pliers to do this to bridge PU's on SG's that have the big batwing pickguards; otherwise the PU is level and the strings are angled and the pole pieces are too far under the strings.

 

[Gibson 1964]

Re: Tilting a Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB on a Guitar With Straight Humbuckers

Why not just bend the legs of the PU to tilt it? I use pliers to do this to bridge PU's on SG's that have the big batwing pickguards; otherwise the PU is level and the strings are angled and the pole pieces are too far under the strings.

I am pretty sure that is not the dimension he is meaning. I think he is meaning more like an old kramer or like the strat bridge single coil.