Pole Piece Alignment

[dbrun002]

So I bought a Fender Tex Mex strat neck pickup to install in my tele. Only problem just by placing it in position is that the pickup's pole pieces seem to be more spaced out than the strings. Will this affect the volume and tone of the outside E's negatively?

[boris bubbanov]

Almost all Strat style pickups will be that way. The Seymour D SSL-1 on my modded Dlx MIM Nashville is like that. I've thought about canting the pickup so the pole pieces will better align but I DO NOT want part of the pickup under the "node" while the other portion is not.

Bill and Becky Lawrence "Keystones" Strat pups are actually different distances apart, the polepieces are closer together on the neck pickup than on the middle, middle closer together than the bridge.

I never found polepieces Outboard from where they belong hurt you too much. In board, that is real narrow spaced Gibson style buckers in the bridge of a Fender with vintage spacing can be a problem, yes.

[boris bubbanov]

But, see the way the neck pickup is slanted on a Squier 51, for example. Although this neck pickup is not universally loved (particularly by guys who would like two overpowering beefy humbuckers in this small guitar), they've canted a narrow, asian spacing single coil pup on this model and there's no issue. I may have to cant the next Strat pickup I put in the neck of a partscaster with a home brew pickguard

[dbrun002]

so then it's perfectly fine? I really don't wanna slant it because I'd have to do some routing and get a new pickguard. thanks for your help man