Calling all Super Sporters

[jazzbo jim]

Out of curiousity, how many of you have ever felt the need (or in have gone ahead) and raised or lowered your pickups (by shimming or routing)?
If so, which did you do and what were your impressions?
Thanks

 

[beej]

I bought Jon's SSPT - he had shimmed the pickups. I can't compare them to the stock setup (as I've never played a stock one through my rig), but I *love* the sound of this guitar the way it is now. So that's one vote for shimming.

 

[jazzbo jim]

Is that the one that can "dive bomb all day long" and still stay in tune

Has anyone else shimmed/lowered their pups?

 

[beej]

Is that the one that can "dive bomb all day long" and still stay in tune

That's the one alright! Yeah, it's pretty sweet for staying in tune.

 

[ripley]

my first one I left completly stock, but on my second one, I raised the neck pickup about 1/8 of an inch. made a marked difference in sound.

 

[Jimi D]

I've shimmed my neck to lower my pickups and shimmed the pickups to raise them; and the differences have been clearly audible, and the experiments fun, but all my guitars are back to "stock" set-up right now - the only way you're going to know if raising or lowering the pups works for you is to try it, but I would recommend shimming the neck (and raising the bridge) to get the effect of "lowering" the pickups rather than routing - it keeps the mod fully reversable if you do that, and you have to do a complete setup whenever you take the bridge off anyway...