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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on October 3, 2015 at 11:57pm

1. Putting the pickup in line will not work well. The idea is to pick up the movment of all of the strings to give that full sound. You will be lining up all of the screws under one or two strings. The outer strings will be somewhat dead.

2. If I understand you correctly, there is is single insulated wire inside the insulation cover but that nsulated is wire covered with a braided wire sheath. If so, that braided wire sheath doubles as both sheild and ground. The inside wire is the hot wire.

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Permalink Reply by Cliff Kent on October 4, 2015 at 1:44am

Hi
Thanks for the reply I did think it would not work well in line with the strings it's no problem I can mount it in the correct orientation it just would have looked neater.

Yes correct the wire has a braided sheath I assumed this would be the ground with the centre wire the hot wire, thanks for the confirmation

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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on October 4, 2015 at 8:11am

You can try going across the neck at various angles, trying to get the screws to cover all of the strings. I am thinking it is a six string pickup and you have less than six strings. You can adjust the srews up and down to even out the irregularities. The purpose of the screws is to extend the magnetic field, up closer to the strings, if one or more strings seems to be underperforming.

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Permalink Reply by Cliff Kent on October 5, 2015 at 11:10am

Thanks for the reply, yes the pickup is a six string type (6screws) and I will have 3 strings another option would be to fit a 3 string single coil pick up I suppose.

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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on October 5, 2015 at 11:45am

See if you have room to do a slant mount with two screws per string. That could be an awesome sound.

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