f spaced

[johnboy30230]

just wanna verify that if im ordering pickups for a hard tail guitar i want standard and not f spaced

[elcid]

I think that's right, but it may depend on if it's a Les Paul style bridge or Fender type hard tail.

[TAorama]

Found this quote on the Petrucci forum:

"F-spaced pickups measure 2.01" (51 mm) center-to-center from the first polepiece to the sixth. Standard-spaced pickups measure 1.90" (48 mm). Although some players believe that F-spaced pickups are only for the bridge position of tremolo bridge guitars, many guitars with fixed bridges (including late 1990s Gibson Les Pauls and Epiphone LPs) should have F-spaced pickups in the bridge position. Most tremolo equipped guitars that have a nut width of 1-11/16? (43mm) or more should also use an F-spaced pickup in the neck position. If you?re replacing a bridge-position pickup and you're not sure what your string-spacing is, it's usually better to get an F-spaced model. It is not necessary for the strings to pass exactly over the center of the polepieces for best performance, but it is wise to avoid a situation where the E strings are sitting completely outside of the outer polepieces."

Which fixed bridge model are you putting this in?

[johnboy30230]

it would go with a hardtail like weiner has on his guitars only 6-stings though