Adjustable pole pieces.

ICBM

LastMantra said:

Question...seems like it's not a good idea to try and move set poles on a vintage stagger strat pickup, what about grinding them down? Mine are fender texmex. Looking closely they're not totally smooth you can see file marks.

If you do that you'll demagnetise them.

p90fool

brucegill said:

p90fool said:

Adjustable pole pieces? Throw 'em in the bin, dammit!

Wtf? What pickups are they? P90 under a humbuckers cover? 

There's a Mojo Goldfoil at the neck and an old underwound Kent Armstrong Firebird pickup at the neck, hidden under humbucker covers. 
It's a great combination.

LastMantra

ICBM said:

LastMantra said:

Question...seems like it's not a good idea to try and move set poles on a vintage stagger strat pickup, what about grinding them down? Mine are fender texmex. Looking closely they're not totally smooth you can see file marks.

If you do that you'll demagnetise them.

Yeah that's what I was wondering. Ah well not to worry. Thanks anyway. 

brucegill

p90fool said:

brucegill said:

p90fool said:

Adjustable pole pieces? Throw 'em in the bin, dammit!

Wtf? What pickups are they? P90 under a humbuckers cover? 

There's a Mojo Goldfoil at the neck and an old underwound Kent Armstrong Firebird pickup at the neck, hidden under humbucker covers. 
It's a great combination.

Nice! Like the plain top too

p90fool

Thanks, it was a gold top but that mostly fell off.

LastMantra

p90fool said:

Thanks, it was a gold top but that mostly fell off.

Cool guitar. Looks like a nice bit of wood considering it was covered up. What did you refinish it with?

p90fool

LastMantra said:

p90fool said:

Thanks, it was a gold top but that mostly fell off.

Cool guitar. Looks like a nice bit of wood considering it was covered up. What did you refinish it with?

Northwest guitars nitro. I was planning to do a blacktop or something tbh, I didn't expect a 2012 Goldtop to have a nice, 2-piece centre-joined top with a hint of flame, I was fully expecting to have to cover up a load of joins and knots.

LastMantra

p90fool said:

LastMantra said:

p90fool said:

Thanks, it was a gold top but that mostly fell off.

Cool guitar. Looks like a nice bit of wood considering it was covered up. What did you refinish it with?

Northwest guitars nitro. I was planning to do a blacktop or something tbh, I didn't expect a 2012 Goldtop to have a nice, 2-piece centre-joined top with a hint of flame, I was fully expecting to have to cover up a load of joins and knots.

Looks cool. You just don't know what you'll find with Gibson! 

clarkefan

It used to be internet gospel that 50s humbucker Gibsons came with the polepieces set up in a zigzag pattern.

SteveRobinson

clarkefan said:

It used to be internet gospel that 50s humbucker Gibsons came with the polepieces set up in a zigzag pattern.

There was a Dan Erlewine article where he does that. 

ICBM

SteveRobinson said:

There was a Dan Erlewine article where he does that. 

Strange, he doesn’t strike me as the sort of man to go for that sort of mystical bullshit...