The problem is that Fender designed the pickups for a wider string spacing than Gibson. You're not going to get a balanced tone across all those polepieces. Why does that matter? It matters because you're now limiting your pickup's effective signal output. I would expect that about ~10% of each pickup's magnetic field is not in the right distance of the strings on your SG. A custom wound pickup set would be the solution.
I was originally going to get some fralin blade pickups to avoid the potential problem, but I didn't want to initially spend that much on pickups. The bridge pickup pole piece spacing is pretty well aligned. It gets off more as you go towards the neck. The biggest issue I noticed at first is that it is difficult to get the necessary height out of the bridge pickup to match the volume of the others. I removed the rubber tubing off the screws, maxed out the height, and adjusted the pole piece height. It is now reasonably close.
Bro... The string is always vibrating while you're playing. The pole position is not so critical. Also magnets don't have laser focus attraction/magnetism.
@@pablo.l Pickup position matters greatly to the tone of the pickup. This is especially true for single coil pickups like the stratocaster's design. If you've ever adjusted the pickup heights of a strat, you would know that.
@@middle_pickup that's a different thing. Pickup height affects the whole magnetic cloud proximity to the strings vibration. That's important. Pole positions not so much.
@@pablo.l The pole piece is the magnet in a strat pickup. It's literally the center of the magnetic field. You're not utilizing the full sensitivity of the pickup if you don't match the strings to that pole piece.
I adore how cleanly you routed it, great work!!
It's really fun doing stuff to guitars and screwing around them. Also fun to watch other people do that too. Thanks for making this video and sharing.
Excellent solutions to your conversion problems. Great job!
Outstanding job Sir.
Frank Marino uses this config. Sounds good..nice job.
The SG sounds great.
I snagged a Gibson CM black SG, in 2016. Dirty fingers and FXR FR. I'll take top dollar in 2 more years !
You planed out a good StratSg and it worked well.
Thanks!
very cool, modding cheap guitars is fun
The problem is that Fender designed the pickups for a wider string spacing than Gibson. You're not going to get a balanced tone across all those polepieces. Why does that matter? It matters because you're now limiting your pickup's effective signal output. I would expect that about ~10% of each pickup's magnetic field is not in the right distance of the strings on your SG. A custom wound pickup set would be the solution.
I was originally going to get some fralin blade pickups to avoid the potential problem, but I didn't want to initially spend that much on pickups. The bridge pickup pole piece spacing is pretty well aligned. It gets off more as you go towards the neck.
The biggest issue I noticed at first is that it is difficult to get the necessary height out of the bridge pickup to match the volume of the others. I removed the rubber tubing off the screws, maxed out the height, and adjusted the pole piece height. It is now reasonably close.
Bro... The string is always vibrating while you're playing. The pole position is not so critical. Also magnets don't have laser focus attraction/magnetism.
@@pablo.l Pickup position matters greatly to the tone of the pickup. This is especially true for single coil pickups like the stratocaster's design. If you've ever adjusted the pickup heights of a strat, you would know that.
@@middle_pickup that's a different thing. Pickup height affects the whole magnetic cloud proximity to the strings vibration. That's important. Pole positions not so much.
@@pablo.l The pole piece is the magnet in a strat pickup. It's literally the center of the magnetic field. You're not utilizing the full sensitivity of the pickup if you don't match the strings to that pole piece.