If you need to readjust the pickup height � Installation Procedure N Screw
If the pickup height needs to be re-adjusted,Screw installation has several advantages over
remove the strings and carefully pry the pickuptape installation: screw installation is more secure,
from the guitar by sliding a thin, flat object (e.g. athe height of the pickup can be more precisely
small knife blade) under the sixth-string end of theadjusted, and pickup height can be easily re-
pickup N between the pickup and top spacer Nadjusted as required without having to remove and
and gently lifting the pickup away from the spacer.reattach double-sided tape.
NOTES
Y Screw installation requires at least a 13 millimeter
(1/2�) space between the guitar top and strings.
1. Mark the optimum position for
installation.
The pickup should be located between the
bridge pickup and bridge (see ONOTES� below).
The cable end of the pickup should be oriented
The double-sided tape can then be Orolled� offtoward the sixth string (low E). One pair of the
the bottom of the pickup as shown in the illustra-pickupOs magnetic yokes should be under each
tion.string. String spacing varies somewhat on different
guitars, and the pickup will function properly as
long as each string passes over part of the corre-
sponding yokes (not necessarily the exact center).
Bridge pickupBridge
Readjust the height as required by adding or
removing spacers:
Y To add a new spacer in order to raise the
pickup, remove any used double-sided tape
from the existing spacer, then attach the new
spacer to the top of the existing spacer after
removing its backing.
No more than
20 millimeters
Pickup
Y When removing a spacer to lower the pickup,
(3/4")
be sure to remove both the spacer and its
backing tape.
OKOKNG
Finally, attach fresh double-sided tape to the
bottom of the pickup, remove the backing, care-
fully attach the pickup to the uppermost spacer,
String
then re-string and tune the guitar.Pickups magnetic yokes
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