f-spaced pickups?????

explain to me :confused:......you wizards ;)

I prefer to be called a warlock...

oh wait...

I have no clue what it is...

I guess I'm a newt then...

A long time ago (in the 20th century, actually) the electric guitar world was divided between Gibson and Fender designs. One of the differences between the two was string spacing. In general, Gibson chose a narrower string spacing at the bridge than Fender, and therefore the polepieces on Gibson humbuckers were closer together than the magnets on Fender pickups. When guitar shops started installing humbuckers in the bridge position of Strats, it was obvious that the strings didn’t line up with the polepieces, and if the E strings were too far outside, the sound could suffer. Our first humbuckers followed the original Gibson spacing, and we call them standard-spaced. When we released our first humbuckers with wider spacing, Floyd Rose bridges were very popular. Floyd string-spacing is the same as Fender spacing, so we naturally called the new pickups F-spaced.


How do I know which spacing to use?

F-spaced pickups measure 2.01" (51 mm) center-to-center from the first polepiece to the sixth. Standard-spaced pickups measure 1.90" (48 mm). Although some players believe that F-spaced pickups are only for the bridge position of tremolo bridge guitars, many guitars with fixed bridges (including late 1990s Gibson Les Pauls and Epiphone LPs) should have F-spaced pickups in the bridge position. Most tremolo equipped guitars that have a nut width of 1-11/16” (43mm) or more should also use an F-spaced pickup in the neck position. If you’re replacing a bridge-position pickup and you're not sure what your string-spacing is, it's usually better to get an F-spaced model. It is not necessary for the strings to pass exactly over the center of the polepieces for best performance, but it is wise to avoid a situation where the E strings are sitting completely outside of the outer polepieces.

From DiMArzios Website.

thank you...gandalf...you rock

Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsI prefer to be called a warlock...

oh wait...

I have no clue what it is...

I guess I'm a newt then...

You're really trying to take a run at 1,000, aren't you? ;)

Originally Posted by: iamthe_eggmanYou're really trying to take a run at 1,000, aren't you? ;)

shoot, someone caught me!

but I'm soo close

only a few more....

Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrsbut I'm soo close

Not if I start deleting them... :cool:

Originally Posted by: iamthe_eggmanNot if I start deleting them... :cool:

hey now, (and for this post, i'm really not just posting for the number) I was just messin around because you said that, I usually don't post three times in 2 minutes... so, I'm sorry, but please don't delete my posts, I've put alot of time into them... well, ok, you can delete the ones from this thread if you HAVE to, because they were pointless. but please don't delete my other ones..

Originally Posted by: 6strngs_2hmbkrshey now, (and for this post, i'm really not just posting for the number) I was just messin around because you said that, I usually don't post three times in 2 minutes... so, I'm sorry, but please don't delete my posts, I've put alot of time into them... well, ok, you can delete the ones from this thread if you HAVE to, because they were pointless. but please don't delete my other ones..

MUAHAHAHAHHAHA... I love it when they start begging.... :o