Wolfram
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Hello!
I'm David from the UK, and I've just joined the forum, though I've been reading many of the tremendously informative and helpful posts for a few months now while I've been researching and looking to acquire a core PRS (I've owned an early SE Singlecut for many years) as I've started playing electric again after some 15 years playing acoustic guitar almost exclusively.
The dream came true back in February when I scored a used-but-practically-untouched one-piece quilted Wood Library Custom 24 in Burnt Maple Leaf. It's stunning in every way. So stunning, that I decided to try to scratch the 513 itch - I'd always been intrigued by these guitars but had never had the opportunity to try one.
So last week I acquired a 25th Anniversary 513 via reverb. Unfortunately, it's not the plain sailing I had with the
Custom 24: it was extremely poorly setup - 9-gauge strings fitted without rebalancing the trem, pickup heights all over the place, unfeasibly low action with lots of buzz.
I'm pretty adept at doing my own setups, so it's now wearing a set of NYXL 10's, action and truss rod are as I like them and it plays wonderfully. I'm less experienced setting pickup height, but I've dialled it in so it sounds great (bridge pickup is probably still a little high). Looking closer from the side, though, it seems to me that the two double pickups are slanted in the direction of the strings (i.e. lower at the fingerboard side than the bridge side), but my middle pickup is slanted in the opposite direction (i.e. lower at the bridge side).
I'm thinking the pickup may have been removed at some stage and put back in the wrong way round. Could anyone confirm whether the 513 pickups are indeed slanted? I noticed it might be an issue because I was continually hitting the front of the middle pickup with my pick, something I rarely do on other guitars with middle pickups.
Thanks in advance for the help, and I look forward to hanging out and contributing here.
Cheers,
David
I'm David from the UK, and I've just joined the forum, though I've been reading many of the tremendously informative and helpful posts for a few months now while I've been researching and looking to acquire a core PRS (I've owned an early SE Singlecut for many years) as I've started playing electric again after some 15 years playing acoustic guitar almost exclusively.
The dream came true back in February when I scored a used-but-practically-untouched one-piece quilted Wood Library Custom 24 in Burnt Maple Leaf. It's stunning in every way. So stunning, that I decided to try to scratch the 513 itch - I'd always been intrigued by these guitars but had never had the opportunity to try one.
So last week I acquired a 25th Anniversary 513 via reverb. Unfortunately, it's not the plain sailing I had with the
Custom 24: it was extremely poorly setup - 9-gauge strings fitted without rebalancing the trem, pickup heights all over the place, unfeasibly low action with lots of buzz.
I'm pretty adept at doing my own setups, so it's now wearing a set of NYXL 10's, action and truss rod are as I like them and it plays wonderfully. I'm less experienced setting pickup height, but I've dialled it in so it sounds great (bridge pickup is probably still a little high). Looking closer from the side, though, it seems to me that the two double pickups are slanted in the direction of the strings (i.e. lower at the fingerboard side than the bridge side), but my middle pickup is slanted in the opposite direction (i.e. lower at the bridge side).

I'm thinking the pickup may have been removed at some stage and put back in the wrong way round. Could anyone confirm whether the 513 pickups are indeed slanted? I noticed it might be an issue because I was continually hitting the front of the middle pickup with my pick, something I rarely do on other guitars with middle pickups.
Thanks in advance for the help, and I look forward to hanging out and contributing here.
Cheers,
David