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No that's typical although that one looks particularly pronounced. The neck pickups aren't always correctly angled on Casinos.

 

However, if you were to turn it around you would lose the reverse polarity hum cancelling effect when the switch is in the middle position.

 

PS, are those flowers for me? You shouldn't have...

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I bought this nice peerless casino used a few weeks ago and just realized that the neck pickup might be installed backwards. Here's a pic, any thoughts?

 

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thanks

Cal

 

Hi Cal,

 

My Casino has the same set up,.. so,... one vote for proper pick-up installation. [thumbup]

 

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No that's typical although that one looks particularly pronounced. The neck pickups aren't always correctly angled on Casinos.

 

However, if you were to turn it around you would lose the reverse polarity hum cancelling effect when the switch is in the middle position.

 

PS, are those flowers for me? You shouldn't have...

 

Thanks...it seemed kind of severe. Yes, the flowers are for you... waddya say fair trade for a genesis?

-C

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I bought this nice peerless casino used a few weeks ago and just realized that the neck pickup might be installed backwards. Here's a pic, any thoughts?

 

2012-02-14191403.jpg

 

thanks

Cal

Ya, yours looks a little more extreme in the angle than most, but that's right.

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No that's typical although that one looks particularly pronounced.

 

The pickup looks pretty normal to me. Got a similar one on my Elitist Casino. However on my Casino the top of the pickup is almost parallel to the strings.

So whether the neck angle of this guitar is significantly different from my Elitist Casino, or the view angle of the photo makes it look worse than it really is.

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Just for discussion sake, are you guys sure that rotating the pickup 180 degrees will eliminate the hum canceling effect in the middle switch position? I know that reversing the pickup leads will (I have done it), and I believe flipping the magnets will, but I don't think rotating the pickup has any effect because nothing is changing electrically or magnetically.

 

I do agree the pickup is installed correctly.

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