Staggered

Staggered-Pole unwound Stratocaster pickup. Check some awesome staggered pole pickups right here! The difference between a flat pole and staggered pole guitar pickups goes far beyond cosmetic and can drastically affect tone – which means your playing style. Read on and find out exactly how pole positioning changes a pickups sound and which one is right for you. On...

Our friends over at Fender answered a few questions recently about staggered pole pieces for us. Heres what they had to say. Fender's customer service department gets asked all the time why some Stratocaster® guitar pickups have staggered polepieces. The answer: because it balances the output across the strings. OK, well, what does that mean? It simply means that staggered...