Re: Pickups...
Posted: 21 Oct 2019, 11:13
Thanks, Rob. I didn’t mean the jag pole was pushed down after manufacture , but just set lower. Whether a shorter pole was used or the standard G pole just installed lower, I’m not concluding. (There is a photo though in the earlier thread that shows the pole protruding from the bottom bobbin, but that may be an after-manufacture fix. As you’ve seen flush bobbins, you must be right.)
BTW, Fender explained the bevelling was done to focus the magnetic field. Your explanation is probably the unglamorous truth.
I also did not think 34346 was specially made as in today’s custom shop, but just wondered why Leo Fender, who was very conscious of the effects of stagger, would have such pickups made in 1958-59. For what reason?
I think you are suggesting the short G slug was not a deliberate design, but just a stop-gap manufacturing solution to address a shortage of correct-height G poles. Which is maybe why Fender history hasn’t mentioned the hybrid stagger. They might prefer to forget the exigency that produced it! (Until Marvin fans cane along wanting to replicate it.)
Thanks for the patient explanations, Rob.
Andy
BTW, Fender explained the bevelling was done to focus the magnetic field. Your explanation is probably the unglamorous truth.
I also did not think 34346 was specially made as in today’s custom shop, but just wondered why Leo Fender, who was very conscious of the effects of stagger, would have such pickups made in 1958-59. For what reason?
I think you are suggesting the short G slug was not a deliberate design, but just a stop-gap manufacturing solution to address a shortage of correct-height G poles. Which is maybe why Fender history hasn’t mentioned the hybrid stagger. They might prefer to forget the exigency that produced it! (Until Marvin fans cane along wanting to replicate it.)
Thanks for the patient explanations, Rob.
Andy