Why do people flip the polepieces around on Neck HBs???

[muttznmongrelz]

so that the Adjustable Pole are towards the bridge rather than the neck? What does this accomplish/change tonally?

[Funkfingers]

Because they are Green with envy.

[SlyFoxx]

I imagine the thought process is that you could make the pup brighter by flipping it and raising the poles or perhaps the opposite by lowering them.

[ericmeyer4]

I did it to mine because the bridge is double cream and the neck is zebra and flipping the neck made it so all the cream bobbins were next to each other. I didn't really notice a tonal change though.

[ImmortalSix]

Because people love f*cking around with guitars --- that's why this forum and the company that hosts it exist.

[Gunny47]

Because people love f*cking around with guitars --- that's why this forum and the company that hosts it exist.

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[muttznmongrelz]

Because people love f*cking around with guitars --- that's why this forum and the company that hosts it exist.

Well Hell...there you go then!!!

[ratherdashing]

Because people love f*cking around with guitars --- that's why this forum and the company that hosts it exist.

I'm gonna go ahead and call this Post of the Year. I know it's July 3, but I don't care. Post of the Year.

[d1dsj]

Mine is like that because it's a bridge pick up in the neck slot.

[constant mesh]

so that the Adjustable Pole are towards the bridge rather than the neck? What does this accomplish/change tonally?

They probably just love the verbal profanity and anger that arises when they flip and try to fit it back and find out that the conductor is now on the wrong side.

5% of guitarist don't know sh1t about gear and don't even bother.
5% actually know sh1t and how to do it properly
90% of them just have a set of allen wrenches and a screwdriver, go back and forth fiddling with their action and relief and advertise their deep, sophisticated, ego-driven guitar knowledge.

Sorry, I just had to say it, just met a guy at GC that was selling a Strat he equipped with super-vee and he was just all macho about it, but the guitar buzzed, the nut action was friggin 1mm, no ground on the bridge, second position was out of phase etc etc. Just love people like these

[lazyfinger]

Sorry, I just had to say it, just met a guy at GC that was selling a Strat he equipped with super-vee and he was just all macho about it, but the guitar buzzed, the nut action was friggin 1mm, no ground on the bridge, second position was out of phase etc etc. Just love people like these

Trial and error, guess he didn't get the memo about the error part.

[jeremy]

i did it on one of my main players to brighten up the neck pup sound on the low strings. i also clipped the low e pole piece. its a subtle difference but did push things in the right direction.

[Mr 9finger]

Sorry, I just had to say it, just met a guy at GC that was selling a Strat he equipped with super-vee and he was just all macho about it, but the guitar buzzed, the nut action was friggin 1mm, no ground on the bridge, second position was out of phase etc etc. Just love people like these

I love picking people like this apart. I like to let them get all the way on their high horse, then cut them off at the legs. I'm by no means super tech, but I've learned a lot from years of research and trial and error. From the looks of the Super Vee trem, it almost looks like child's play to install it. The Bladerunner even more so.

[tonello]

I'm gonna go ahead and call this Post of the Year. I know it's July 3, but I don't care. Post of the Year.

I think I'll start holding an annual post of the year contest, so start submitting your favorites now.

[idsnowdog]

Although with a traditional slug/screw humbucker both coils sense string movement the coil with the screws is predominantly the sensing coil since the screws are closer to the strings. By turning the pickup 180 degrees you are moving the sensing coil about 2 inches closer to the bridge. This brightens the tone and with the sensing coil towards the bridge you are actually closer to a harmonic node on the string for most scale lengths. I have the majority of my neck buckers turned 180 degrees. I also have radiused the poles and I have cut the poles off flush with the baseplate. This has given me better clarity and it is easier to get controllable harmonic feedback.

[ItsaBass]

Probably a mistake sometimes, copping Peter Green sometimes, and an experiment to see if it will brighten the pickup other times. I don't think it makes the pickup brighter in and of itself, but it does move the adjustable screws closer to the neck, which gives you the ability to adjust the pickup to be brighter.

[uOpt]

Well, to my knowledge nobody really measured yet whether the magnetic field around the pickups is large enough that they can "see" each other in sound-significant ways.

Same goes for RP middle Strat pickups. Nobody measured yet whether the magnetic field over the guitar changes in a meaningful way. If so then the RP pickup in the middle could make neck or bridge pickup sound differently even when the middle is off.

[Gearjoneser]

I love picking people like this apart. I like to let them get all the way on their high horse, then cut them off at the legs.

[verbotenco]

Because people love f*cking around with guitars --- that's why this forum and the company that hosts it exist.

Hush...you'll get infraction for saying that...

[Bfeeney]

i did it on one of my main players to brighten up the neck pup sound on the low strings.

Yeah, I heard that it basically moves the neck pup closer to the bridge position making it a little brighter.