Long leg or short leg?

rlw

What is the difference  between long and short leg HB pickups?  I have a set where the legs measure 1/2" from the bottom edge of the body of the pickup which, I assume, are long leg.

Am I right?

OilCityPickups

rlw said:

What is the difference  between long and short leg HB pickups?  I have a set where the legs measure 1/2" from the bottom edge of the body of the pickup which, I assume, are long leg.

Am I right?

You are ... generally I say long legs for Gibsons ... short legs for everything else.

ICBM

Long legs if there’s enough height for them, since they wobble less. Short if there isn’t.

guitars4you

rlw said:

What is the difference  between long and short leg

And I thought you wanted to know the difference in cricket fielding positions 

elstoof

OilCityPickups said:

You are ... generally I say 

Foghorn Leghorn?

OilCityPickups

ICBM said:

Long legs if there’s enough height for them, since they wobble less. Short if there isn’t.

Generally the tendency these days is for pickup routs to get shallower - Ibanez and PRS to name but two companies who are not allowing space for longer legs, or even full length pole screws ... and in the case of some newer Ibanez instruments, no crank at all is allowed for on the baseplate. With the correct length springs and proper fitting there should be no more 'wobble' in short leg pickups than in long ones. If you buy short leg pickups they will be usable on a wider range of instruments, plus it's actually very difficult to get 52mm spaced pickups in long leg. 

Funkfingers

guitars4you said:

rlw said:

What is the difference  between long and short leg

And I thought you wanted to know the difference in cricket fielding positions 

Ex-military servicemen will be relieved that the thread question was not about short arms.

Philly_Q

OilCityPickups said:

rlw said:

What is the difference  between long and short leg HB pickups?  I have a set where the legs measure 1/2" from the bottom edge of the body of the pickup which, I assume, are long leg.

Am I right?

You are ... generally I say long legs for Gibsons ... short legs for everything else.

Especially if it's something like an SG or Flying V with a scratchplate-mounted bridge pickup.  If you use a short-leg pickup in that situation the height adjustment springs may be squished to the point that they won't squish any more.

OilCityPickups

Philly_Q said:

OilCityPickups said:

rlw said:

What is the difference  between long and short leg HB pickups?  I have a set where the legs measure 1/2" from the bottom edge of the body of the pickup which, I assume, are long leg.

Am I right?

You are ... generally I say long legs for Gibsons ... short legs for everything else.

Especially if it's something like an SG or Flying V with a scratchplate-mounted bridge pickup.  If you use a short-leg pickup in that situation the height adjustment springs may be squished to the point that they won't squish any more.

Absolutely ... 

Funkfingers

Depending on the neck pitch angle, some SG and Flying Vee bridge pickups need to stick out a long way from the mounting surround. Short lugs will not reach. It takes long lugs and short springs.

Philly_Q

Funkfingers said:

Depending on the neck pitch angle, some SG and Flying Vee bridge pickups need to stick out a long way from the mounting surround. Short lugs will not reach. It takes long lugs and short springs.

I think I said that.  In different words of course. 

Funkfingers

Sorry. I left the Discussion to answer a PM about Charvel spare parts. Your comments were displaced from what is left of my short term memory.

Philly_Q

Funkfingers said:

Sorry. I left the Discussion to answer a PM about Charvel spare parts. Your comments were displaced from what is left of my short term memory.

Probably for the best.