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Post by Phil (aka Phil) on Feb 23, 2007 5:41:18 GMT -7
In my quest to find a pickup for my Kramer Baretta (in another thread) I noticed something. The pickup mounting ring is "slanted", or wedge shaped. I've been playing that guitar since 1986 and never noticed that before! I can see how this makes since on guitars with a curve to them, but the Kramer is flat, thus making the pickup angled, with the coil closest to the bridge much closer to the strings than the "neck" coil. I quickly checked my other "flat bodied" humbucking guitar, and sure enough, both mounting rings are wedge shaped! I even looked at a guitar mag lying in front of me with Paul Gilbert, and his Ibanez' body is flat but the mounting rings are wedge shaped! And good luck finding "flat" rings; the closest thing I could find are metal ones at Stew-Mac. The Schaller pickups that used to come in the Baretta had two sets of mounting screws so you could make the pickup match the string angle. That makes sense.
Anyone else notice this?
PDW primarily a single coil player!
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Post by mystic on Feb 23, 2007 23:30:59 GMT -7
If you look you will see that the neck is angled too. If it was parallel to the body, there would be no room for the bridge.
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