Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: DaveyHoran on February 07, 2012, 10:14:21 AM
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A friend offered me a 50mm spaced riff raff for my SG bridge... As far as I know the SG bridge is 53mm...
Is there anything to worry about, loss of tone or volume etc?
Thanks
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usually, you won't hear any difference
BUT, I had problems with this in a couple les paul copies, cause the bridge was a bit out of place, so the high E was almost out of the pickup coil (in the other guitar, the low E was out)
you can always sand the bridge saddles to match the pickup spacing
that's a quick and easy adjust
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A friend offered me a 50mm spaced riff raff for my SG bridge... As far as I know the SG bridge is 53mm...
Is there anything to worry about, loss of tone or volume etc?
Thanks
It will sound tighter ;-) :lol:
(as in cramped).
You won't hear a difference. Lots of pickups don't really match up. EMGs, for one, just you can't see it, because of the solid black cover.
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I agree with Eric - normally the volume differences are so slight that they can be adjusted by raising the E strings pole pieces and/or lowering the other pole pieces.
Cheers Stephan
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Eric - Are you talking about filing another grove under the strings on the bridge so both E strings are closer together?
Stephen - I read that pole piece adjustment was to do with bass/treble response and not volume?
Bare in mind I'm the type of person that could cut himself with a spoon.
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The spacing at your SG's bridge is probably around 52-53mm, as you say (depends how they notched the saddles at the factory).
But if you measure the actual spacing between the E strings directly above the bridge pickup, it's probably about 51mm.
The 50mm polepiece spacing is centre-to-centre of the two outer poles, so strings spaced at 51mm should still fall well within the full "range" of the polepieces.
In other words, don't worry about it. :wink:
The only time this is really an issue is if you have a guitar with a Floyd or a vintage-style Fender bridge - then the spacing at the bridge can be as much as 56mm and you really can "lose" your E strings.
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Cheers Philly - Very Reassuring!!! Looks like I'm getting myself a riff raff bridge for my SG Standard...
And a mule for the neck....
Also just upgrated the wiring to 500K cts pots and jenson caps .022 and .015 :-)
Looking forward to this install :D
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Eric - Are you talking about filing another grove under the strings on the bridge so both E strings are closer together?
Stephen - I read that pole piece adjustment was to do with bass/treble response and not volume?
Bare in mind I'm the type of person that could cut himself with a spoon.
:lol:
you would have to sand all the saddles to align each string with each pole and keep the same distance between strings
it's not difficult with a proper tool and won't take more than 10 minutes