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Bridge pickup pole pieces don't line up well on JP15

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Makesexnotwar

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Hello everyone!
So about a year ago I bought Music Man JP15 7 string. It sounds great, feels and plays like a dream but few days ago when I put new strings on it I found strange pole pieces misalignment if we compare them to strings spacing. As you can see on attached pic 7th string is lined perfectly about pickup pole pieces but then spacing staring to decrease and because of that 1st string isn't about 1st pole piece of the pickup. Hard to say why I haven't seen it earlier. I'm the first owner of this guitar and haven't done any modifications to it besides setup and some fret levelling(done by local guitar tech).
Have you seen such issues on JP15s ? Should I be worried about this? Is there a way to fix it some how?

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Nothing to worry about- the strings don't need to be fully centered above the poles. Likely the neck has shifted slightly in the pocket, so the alignment is off. You can loosen the neck screws and move the neck a bit, but it won't make any difference.
 
I thought about the neck too but I don't see any unusual gaps at the edges of the fretboard. Also it's looks like strings and pole pieces spacing is different. Maybe it worth to check if neck and bridge are not mixed up? Should both pickups have same pole pieces spacing?
 
There's a bit of an angle on the picture so it's hard to know for sure. But if you're concerned you can drop the customer service team a note and ask (the link is in my signature). See what they say.
 
The strings look aligned correctly on the fretboard. It actually looks like the pickups themselves are definitely closer to the bass side of the routing, by a few mm.
 
Have you checked to see if the correct pickup is the bridge? I had a new build with 2 neck pickups installed! Sometimes it happens, and EBMM CS corrected it quickly.
 
Hard to tell from the Picture, but that looks like the Bridge Pickup isn‘t F-Spaced, maybe it‘s like Ventanaman said, and they installed a Neck Pickup instead of a Bridge Pickup
 
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