FGJ Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 This may have been discussed elsewhere, so I apologize if it has been done already. But can anyone explain why the late 90's Dimarzio pups (at least the one on my '89 Cali) are not F spaced (assuming I have the terminology correct). Why didn't Hamer ask Dimarzio to place the pole pieces under the strings? Or why didn't Hamer slant the pickup like other Floyd-equipped-EVH-guitar-clones so that the poles are somewhat closer to the strings? And do the out-of-line poles affect the tone adversely? (I've never swapped pups to do a comparison.) Anyone do much pup swapping on Cali's or other Floyd-equipped guitars? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Diablo? Inquiring minds wanna know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 F spaced or non F spaced I can’t tell the difference after 33 years of guitar playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff R Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 I was going to say, the Hamer gang is a pretty sharp collaborative and they too very likely deduced that F spacing is nice but far, far from necessary. I can't hear a damn bit of difference either - I actually wrote a blog about this for my shop's website. http://www.thefretshack.com/blog/polespacing I give Dimarzio and Seymour's Marketing 101 efforts an A+++ on the whole F spaced things. I'd love to know how many purely ignorant and OCD-riddled players out there they got to scrap their perfectly good pickups and invest their money in the same exact thing that looked a little "better." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubs_42 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Maybe it is just OCD, but I do like my poles directly under the string. But like Jeff said, its far from necessary and I'll play them any way they come in a guitar. Now do we want to discuss Poles Pieces compared to Rails? LOL Lets not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 I picked up a strat a while back with a set of these that tackle the problem in a different way. Six coils arranged as three humbucking pairs. I'm far from being a strat purist, but I really like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FGJ Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 7 hours ago, Jeff R said: I was going to say, the Hamer gang is a pretty sharp collaborative and they too very likely deduced that F spacing is nice but far, far from necessary. I can't hear a damn bit of difference either - I actually wrote a blog about this for my shop's website. http://www.thefretshack.com/blog/polespacing I give Dimarzio and Seymour's Marketing 101 efforts an A+++ on the whole F spaced things. I'd love to know how many purely ignorant and OCD-riddled players out there they got to scrap their perfectly good pickups and invest their money in the same exact thing that looked a little "better." Thanks for the link. The article made perfect sense. Frankly, I could care less about the looks, so if the spacing is irrelevant to the tone, that's good enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ting Ho Dung Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 9 hours ago, FGJ said: This may have been discussed elsewhere, so I apologize if it has been done already. But can anyone explain why the late 90's Dimarzio pups (at least the one on my '89 Cali) are not F spaced (assuming I have the terminology correct). Why didn't Hamer ask Dimarzio to place the pole pieces under the strings? Or why didn't Hamer slant the pickup like other Floyd-equipped-EVH-guitar-clones so that the poles are somewhat closer to the strings? And do the out-of-line poles affect the tone adversely? (I've never swapped pups to do a comparison.) Anyone do much pup swapping on Cali's or other Floyd-equipped guitars? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Diablo? Inquiring minds wanna know. I believe it's just cosmetics. Some people are anal that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubs_42 Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 2 hours ago, cynic said: I picked up a strat a while back with a set of these that tackle the problem in a different way. Six coils arranged as three humbucking pairs. I'm far from being a strat purist, but I really like them. Z Coils are cool, very labor intensive. I played a Strat down in Nashville that was loaded with them and they sound like strat pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 F-Spacing is a solution to an imaginary problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottcald Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 On 6/17/2018 at 5:10 PM, Armitage said: F-Spacing is a solution to an imaginary problem. The problem was how to get people to buy something you already sold them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 On 6/17/2018 at 10:55 AM, bubs_42 said: Maybe it is just OCD, but I do like my poles directly under the string. But like Jeff said, its far from necessary and I'll play them any way they come in a guitar. Now do we want to discuss Poles Pieces compared to Rails? LOL Lets not! I do! I've got both L90 and L500 pickups from Wilde and they're awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BubbaVO Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 On 6/21/2018 at 9:56 AM, sixesandsevens said: I do! I've got both L90 and L500 pickups from Wilde and they're awesome. Would love to buy more of their products, but the communication with them is less than ideal. So I'm reluctant to throw sheckels their way, even if they are significantly less than I would throw to SD or DiMarzio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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