Trembucker Pole Spacing on a Classic Stack Plus Neck PU? That seems odd ...

[Charlie Boo]

I just received a new Classic Stack Plus neck pickup that I ordered and the pole spacing is the exact same as my trembucker spaced bridge pickup. As a result, even though I have a strat trem spacing of 2 1/8 at the bridge, the 1 and 6 strings fall inside the outer pole pieces on the Classic Stack Plus by the time they get to the neck. Before I wire it up, does anyone have this pickup in the neck that can confirm that this is normal/intended? If so, have you had any issues? This pickup has a symmetrical pole stagger that matches up well with the compound radius neck I have, but the outside pole pieces are the lowest and now are pretty much outside the sting spacing at the neck. Thoughts/concerns? Or should I just shut up and wire it up? Lol. Thanks!

 

[GilmourD]

Re: Trembucker Pole Spacing on a Classic Stack Plus Neck PU? That seems odd ...

What's important to you is that as long as they are inside you're fine.

The pole spread on the stack is the same as a vintage Strat.

 

[Charlie Boo]

Re: Trembucker Pole Spacing on a Classic Stack Plus Neck PU? That seems odd ...

That's what I was hoping - as long as the strings are in the inside of the "magnet field" it should be fine. It seems odd that they would make the spacing as wide as the extreme vintage string spacing on a pickup with non-vintage staggering, but as long as it works and the signal from the strings get "picked up", that's all I care about. Thanks.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Trembucker Pole Spacing on a Classic Stack Plus Neck PU? That seems odd ...

This should be fine. That pickup is strong enough to 'hear' just outside the poles anyway.

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Trembucker Pole Spacing on a Classic Stack Plus Neck PU? That seems odd ...

The poles dont line up with the strings on Mexican Fender Strats. The low E on mine had a weird out of phase sound, even when I lowered it (suspected stratitis but was not the isue)

The rest of the strings sounded great though. Love the wooly sound on the D string...you can hear the windings obthe string, if you kNow what .i mean.

If they made em in Mexi spacing and without the tacky@$$ logo, they would be the greatest pickups ever. Hey can we make that the next forum pickup?