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POLE POSITION

“Dear , I wonder if you could share some thoughts on pickup polepieces? I was seriously tempted to drop some cash on a secondhand guitar in immaculate condition, but I was put off when I noticed some of the strings were pretty far off their respective pickup polepieces. The online forums suggested this is ‘a thing’ with this model and that it shipped from the factory with a bridge that was the wrong size for the pickups, and they suggested some possible replacement bridges to remedy the

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