I don't know if anybody will remember the Alden TV Cruiser I put up for sale a fair bit back when I first joined this site... there was a string alignment problem on that. Having imported it from Germany, and myself being somewhat shall we say... 'inexperienced' at the time, I thought that it was a construction problem. Knowing what I know now, it turns out that the problem is simpler than that. The design was a mishmash of Fender and Gibson ideas, being a telecaster style appearance but with the pickups of an EB-3. Big mudbucker at the neck and a mini humbucker near the bridge. Middle two strings were fine, but the outer strings missed the pole pieces by a fair few mm on each side, obviously being much worse at the bridge. Result = incredible difference in volume on outer strings.
Anyways, the problem is that the pickups have been produced to Gibson specs, which use a slightly reduced string spacing on their bridges as far as I can tell. The Alden, however, is fitted with a Fender-style high mass, meaning that the string spread is too wide for the pickups.
Anyways, nobody wanted it, I thought for a while about modding it in a few ways and keeping it but then eventually decided I want rid of it as I don't play it, it's always in my way and I'm building a new project anyway. I'm currently gathering the bits - it'll soon have a '51 P pickup in the neck position and if I can track one down hopefully, a blade magnet mini humbucker in the bridge. Then it'll probably be making another appearance in the 'For Sale' board!