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Sergio, the labor is no problem, anything that you love is worth putting the time into it!

I already flipped the magnet and reversed the polarity on the treble pickup so the bass is hum cancelling when both pickups are on, so taking the pickups apart again won't be a problem.

My main worry was ...

Sergio, I checked the radius of the strings and it matches that of the fingerboard. So what is the safe fix?

I'm glad I checked in here before I went ahead and broke the pickups!

Thanks to all for the help.

Hi all, this is my first post to the forum. I have an 81 4001 and the A and D polepieces are higher than the E and G on both the bridge and neck pickups. The E string is much lower in output than the A and D (the G isn't that bad). After seeing the toaster conversion pictures here on the forum, I ...