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  1. If you're worried about your strings not lining up exactly with your pickup pole pieces, it means you've got far too much time on your hands, you muppet!

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    2. SpondonBassed

      SpondonBassed

      @Marc S

      Sorry you missed that.

      It was the one where Peter Purvis was stringing up the prototype uBass that he had just knocked up from washing up liquid bottles and crepe paper.  He was using Valerie's old 0.130" gauge knicker elastic.

      As he was doing so John Noakes surprised a whole generation of impressionable youth by pulling off Shep on live telly!  'That dog was always humping on someone's leg or other if it wasn't getting enough airtime', Mr Noakes confided after the court case.  He's a good pup really.

    3. Kevsy71

      Kevsy71

      @discreet I had the same on my '64 P:  E and A were directly over the middle of a pole piece, G and D between pole pieces. Seems to have been the done thing from what I can see...

    4. discreet

      discreet

      @Kevsy71 I read here and elsewhere that it's just not an issue. This hasn't stopped hundreds of posts about it on TB, mainly OCD-related. Some people even resorted to fitting plain pickup covers because of it...

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