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billydlight wrote:I disagree. I think the flat poles sound great!
apossibleworld wrote:Interesting. What I'm really curious about is the change that occurred in the mid 60s, when they made the poles shorter on the underside of the neck pickup, so that they don't have to route the body in a weak point. That's why some of the earlier 60s guitars have bad neck angles, because of that structural weakness -- they've collapsed over time. And yet the earlier pickups supposedly sound better, which is what the original post was asking about. Anybody know exactly when that change occurred?
billydlight wrote:I disagree. I think the flat poles sound great!
jps wrote:billydlight wrote:I disagree. I think the flat poles sound great!
+10000000000000!
sys700 wrote:I recently sold a late 66 short pole pickup 12-string for this very reason. The long pole pickups sound more aggressive and louder.
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