cassius987 wrote:I measure and set up with the string "open" (no fretting). I started setting the pickups like this after I realized the Toaster being so close in the neck position could actually cause a false setup issue
I have never found this to be the case with a toaster. Lots of pickups can, and do, cause warbling, false tones, etc., but not a toaster. When I set pickup height, I always press the string down at the last fret and adjust the height from there. Even the Seymour Duncan humbucking pickups that were on my former ZON basses never created any problems, perhaps this is because they were not typical high output humbuckers (wired in parallel, they measured 1.2K). All Fender pickups do cause major issues, IME.