David Eaton
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This is my 2012 P22, purchased as a NOS guitar in 2014:
In the summer of 2015 I noticed that the bridge pickup was offset, it was not this way when I purchased the guitar. It looked basically like this:
You can see the pickup has shifted towards the treble strings, and you can see there's no damage to the top, so it wasn't from an impact. I pulled the pickups and found that the "ears" were bent at odd angles:
I used a pair of needle nose pliers to straighten the "ears" and put the pickup back in the guitar.
About three months later, the same thing happened. I don't play the guitar much, so I didn't mess with it again until this weekend. All the pics except the bottom two were taken this weekend. The bottom two were post-repair job pics from summer of 2015.
I've never had this happen where the pickups would move side to side as the ears bent. Even more puzzling is that the guitar was built 4/2012, I took delivery 4/2014, and it was another 15 months before anything happened. Then, three months before the problem reappeared.
I bought the guitar for a pretty specific use, and I'm not doing that anymore, though I do like the guitar, so it hasn't been a huge problem but I'd love to know if i) anyone has an idea what might be causing this and ii) whether there is a better fix than using pliers to straighten the pickup mounts. I hope it doesn't happen anymore, but, man, it's got me puzzled.
Thanks in advance.
In the summer of 2015 I noticed that the bridge pickup was offset, it was not this way when I purchased the guitar. It looked basically like this:
You can see the pickup has shifted towards the treble strings, and you can see there's no damage to the top, so it wasn't from an impact. I pulled the pickups and found that the "ears" were bent at odd angles:
I used a pair of needle nose pliers to straighten the "ears" and put the pickup back in the guitar.
About three months later, the same thing happened. I don't play the guitar much, so I didn't mess with it again until this weekend. All the pics except the bottom two were taken this weekend. The bottom two were post-repair job pics from summer of 2015.
I've never had this happen where the pickups would move side to side as the ears bent. Even more puzzling is that the guitar was built 4/2012, I took delivery 4/2014, and it was another 15 months before anything happened. Then, three months before the problem reappeared.
I bought the guitar for a pretty specific use, and I'm not doing that anymore, though I do like the guitar, so it hasn't been a huge problem but I'd love to know if i) anyone has an idea what might be causing this and ii) whether there is a better fix than using pliers to straighten the pickup mounts. I hope it doesn't happen anymore, but, man, it's got me puzzled.
Thanks in advance.