pissypants
Well-Known Member
Hi guitar whizzes, looking for some advice on this:
My brother bought a Deluxe online, with a 7 day no conditional return policy.
He's kind of a bit miffed at how the strings aren't really sitting directly over the "screws" on the pickups, and he's thinking of returning it. See pic:
The question is: How much does this matter? What kind of distance starts to cause a problem? Even adjusting the height of the pickup, or using the adjustments on the bridge, it seems to be physically impossible to actually draw a straight line between the rivule where the string comes through the face of the guitar and the screws on the two rows of pickups.
Obviously it's a difficult question to ask without actually hearing / playing the guitar - but shouldn't these actually line up? They do on the 2 guitars that I own, and although I've seen some variance in allignment on other guitars I've seen / played, the ones on his seem to be quite extreme...
What do youse think?
My brother bought a Deluxe online, with a 7 day no conditional return policy.
He's kind of a bit miffed at how the strings aren't really sitting directly over the "screws" on the pickups, and he's thinking of returning it. See pic:
The question is: How much does this matter? What kind of distance starts to cause a problem? Even adjusting the height of the pickup, or using the adjustments on the bridge, it seems to be physically impossible to actually draw a straight line between the rivule where the string comes through the face of the guitar and the screws on the two rows of pickups.
Obviously it's a difficult question to ask without actually hearing / playing the guitar - but shouldn't these actually line up? They do on the 2 guitars that I own, and although I've seen some variance in allignment on other guitars I've seen / played, the ones on his seem to be quite extreme...
What do youse think?
