Can someone please answer this question once and for all? (The internet is full of contradictions)
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F spaced (Fender has a wider string spacing at the bridge than Gibson) and designed for use with trem equipped guitars.
No Tele in that description!
No Tele in that description!
Trembuckers vs Humbuckers: Guitar String Spacing Explained
The terms trembucker and humbucker describe the spacing of pole pieces on the pickup. Find out which pickup is right for your guitar.
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Telecasters can also have the wider spacing.
If your e strings look like they might fall off the edges of the fretboard, you probably have a wider spaced bridge.
Well right, F spaced is Fender spaced and Fender makes the Tele but Trembucker doesn't mean "spaced for Telecaster".
Trembucker isn't even specifically Fender, where F spaced is but still is for all guitars with a trem, not all guitars made by Fender.
Where the OP asked about internet info being confusing, I tried to answer the meaning of the SD brand term, not what all guitars it fit.
But maybe that's what he was asking!!!
all you need to know is..
if it's around 50mm e-e then buy the normal spacing, if it's around 52mm e-e spacing then buy the trembucker..
alternatively, don't worry about it unless you absolutely must have your string passing exactly over the centre of the pole screws.
if it's around 50mm e-e then buy the normal spacing, if it's around 52mm e-e spacing then buy the trembucker..
alternatively, don't worry about it unless you absolutely must have your string passing exactly over the centre of the pole screws.
That was what I thought it meant. So many sources out there saying so many different things. Thanks for the input.
Thanks!Trembuckers vs Humbuckers: Guitar String Spacing Explained
The terms trembucker and humbucker describe the spacing of pole pieces on the pickup. Find out which pickup is right for your guitar.
You're welcome.
Flip G
Tele-Afflicted
Spacing + Trembucker + Telecaster =
My question should have read "Does trembucker mean the same as F-spaced"...ha ha...that's what I meant.
I just re-read what I typed. Been monkeying around on the web all day, which I'm not used to doing. I guess I have monitor fatigue.
Anyway, thanks for the valuable input. Very helpful. That's one reason why I love this forum.
I just re-read what I typed. Been monkeying around on the web all day, which I'm not used to doing. I guess I have monitor fatigue.
Anyway, thanks for the valuable input. Very helpful. That's one reason why I love this forum.
In general, but not always, Fender style and succeeding guitars with trems, even Floyd Rose trems, and surface mounted fixed bridges like Teles and hardtail Strats, have string spacing at the bridge that measures a little over 2" or 52 to 53 mm. This "F spacing" even varies a little with different models, years of guitars and US vs imported. Gibson style and succeeding guitars with "post mounted" Tune-o-matic and wraparound style bridges are a hair under 2" or approx 50 mm. Again this varies a bit with the different TOM (tune-o-matic) bridges like the Nashville TOM and the vintage style ABR-1 TOM. Since the humbucker was originally designed to fit Gibson guitars, the polepieces on these pickups were spaced to lie centered under the strings of TOM and wraparound bridges. So a couple of the bigger aftermarket replacement pickup makers, Seymour Duncan and Dimarzio, in addition to regular Gibson spaced humbuckers, started making wider spaced "Trembucker" and "F spaced" bridge pickups so the polepieces would be centered more precisely under the strings of F style and succeeding guitars.
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Blues Twanger
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Not exactly. A Seymour Duncan's Trembucker humbucker is wider spaced at 52.6mm/2.07" than Dimarzio's F-Spaced humbucker at 51mm/2" for example. What it really comes down to is knowing the spacing the different pickup manufacturers use for their humbucker pickups and matching it to the bridge in question. Commonly one can find the above plus 1 7/8", 1 15/16", 50mm, and 52mm options depending on make and style.My question should have read "Does trembucker mean the same as F-spaced"...ha ha...that's what I meant.
I just re-read what I typed. Been monkeying around on the web all day, which I'm not used to doing. I guess I have monitor fatigue.
Anyway, thanks for the valuable input. Very helpful. That's one reason why I love this forum.
Fender bridges themselves vary so you really need to know what's on the particular guitar in question but with Telecasters it is usually easier than Stratocasters but it never hurts to measure. That being said a millimeter or so either side of perfect is fine in most cases.
The final rub is that most of the above humbuckers from the usual suspects will have the same overall width, as in 'normal' bobbins, but the Trembucker uses longer bobbins and needs a wider cavity/mount as well.
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NWinther
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Where is the socalled "tremolo" on the guitar??
Anyways was dat ole pickups not just made for gitars with dat Floyd Rosy ding.....
Anyways was dat ole pickups not just made for gitars with dat Floyd Rosy ding.....
when the volume gets to a certain level the audience trembles and buckles at the knees.....
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Fiend of Leo's
Where is the socalled "tremolo" on the guitar??
Anyways was dat ole pickups not just made for gitars with dat Floyd Rosy ding.....
Right. I'm stuck with that stupid vibrato that's built into all of my Strats.
NWinther
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