So I've been building guitars and experimenting with a lot of things... there was this single coil seven pole pickup at the music store I frequent that had been sitting there forever! So the wheels began turning... Now I know the idea is to have a string under every pole piece, but SEVEN pole pieces gave me that NIGEL TUFNEL moment,... mine would have SEVEN! So I theorized that if I angled the pickup like a TELE, the pole pieces would be irrelevant because at a certain angle there would be nothing but pole piece coverage for the length of the pickup... and IT WORKED... but the problem was, there seemed to be a phase cancellation between the pole pieces... meaning whatever GAIN was achieved, was cancelled out by the pole pieces being on either side of the string... so the string would vibrate one direction and the phase of the other pickup cancelled it out !
Just as a first concept... WHAT if you were to make the pole pieces like that of a JAZZ BASS... I have heard and seen a few things that make me think it's the case... that the pole pieces of a jazz bass, which are basically set on either side of the string, are actually REVERSE phase... meaning, one north, one south, per string, That way when the string vibrates one direction, the other pole piece doesn't cancel that out... has any one ever tried to experiment with a PUSH PULL design pickup? Was the information I got on the Jazz bass incorrect? I only ask because I saw a video on youtube and it seemed like the guy was changing the direction of the Dyminium magnets for each pole, as he was charging them with a Dyminium magnet... I'll have to look it up again... but I was wondering if it could be done, so that my DREAM neck pickup could have 12 poles or I think I could get away with 11, technically speaking.... in a push pull, alternating layout. It seems like it should work...
