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I hope we are on the same page - it's not phase flip, it's literally just the place the split HB is sensing the string vibrations from. It makes no difference in full HB mode
It might make a difference.

The slug coils sound stronger to me than the screw coils in the same pickup. It's probably the difference between having a screw as the polepiece and a solid steel slug.

I've been forced into doing some close listening while trying to figure out what's going on with the rotary switch on my '95 CE22, compared to my '97 CE22 which i think is working as it should.
 
It might make a difference.

The slug coils sound stronger to me than the screw coils in the same pickup. It's probably the difference between having a screw as the polepiece and a solid steel slug.

I've been forced into doing some close listening while trying to figure out what's going on with the rotary switch on my '95 CE22, compared to my '97 CE22 which i think is working as it should.
It wont. In PRS pickups only one, dedicated coil is splitable (the screw coil). The only difference is the tone in a split mode. In full humbucker mode, both coils are forming one circuit, they are both connected in series. Flipping them 180 won't change a thing.
 
It wont. In PRS pickups only one, dedicated coil is splitable (the screw coil). The only difference is the tone in a split mode. In full humbucker mode, both coils are forming one circuit, they are both connected in series. Flipping them 180 won't change a thing.
Over the last 70 years a lot of guys have found they can change the tone of their guitar by mounting the neck pickup reversed.

Wes Montgomery for one. Peter Green too.

Look closely at the pickup in Wes's Gibson L5.

 
Over the last 70 years a lot of guys have found they can change the tone of their guitar by mounting the neck pickup reversed.

Wes Montgomery for one. Peter Green too.

Look closely at the pickup in Wes's Gibson L5.

I know nothing about Wes Montgomery, but with Peter Green, it's a bit more complicated. His neck pickup was rewired and assembled with a flipped magnet by mistake.

I'm not a self-proclaimed pickup specialist but I did my share of digging into the subject. One of the very first things I did with my 35th anniversary was flipping a pickup the correct way. I may have no Montgomery's ears, but I still have ears. It did zero difference in full HB mode

You say tomato, I say potato, let's agree on that.
 
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I know nothing about Wes Montgomery, but with Peter Green, it's a bit more complicated. His neck pickup was rewired and assembled with a flipped magnet by mistake.

I'm not a self-proclaimed pickup specialist but I did my share of digging into the subject. One of the very first things I did with my 35th anniversary was flipping a pickup the correct way. I may have no Montgomery's ears, but I still have ears. It did zero difference in full HB mode

You say tomato, I say potato, let's agree on that.

Let's agree
Sure. I actually do hear a difference. But if you don't that's cool.

Might be my Asperger's acting up again...
 
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