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If so, they are held to the base plate by small screws and can be easily tightened (obviously you need to get under the scratchplate to do this).
Typically, the side of each bobbin above the bar magnet is prevented from moving any further towards the baseplate. Hence, over-tightening pulls the outermost edge of each bobbin in an arc, away from the centre line of the pickup.
In all frankness, once you are in there, the temptation will be to *solve* the MIM pickup problem by upgrading them.
I asked if they were loose - clearly if they’re not - tightening the screws isn’t the solution.
How very unhelpful of me to suggest this.
So long as the bobbins are not loose I'd just leave it.
However if you want it fixed I'd be happy to do it for the price of postage ... it's only a 90p shim!
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Okay ... from this you can see that if the output lead and keeper bar or the shim are thinner than the magnet ... as you tighten the bobbin screws ... the bobbins will lean outwards.
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Yep there are two screws on each side ... easy to over tighten them and strip out the inside of the holes in the bobbins. The lean on your bobbins is very extreme, so it looks like they may have left out the shim completely!
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EDIT: Actually, some Fender in-house humbuckers, intended to fit into a Stratocaster, use a flat fibreboard baseplate rather than the conventional stamped metal item. e.g. Some examples of the Tex-Mex humbucker.
Yes. In the photograph, you should see eight holes through the baseplate per bobbin. Holes two and seven are for the bobbin fastening screws.
@TheGuitarWeasel Everything looks neat and tidy in the photograph with the long smooth bar magnet. How would you adapt the spacers to cope with an uneven sand cast magnet?
Flat fibre baseplates use shims too ... I use flat fibre for quite a few of my HBs ... especially 7 string ones ... and they get the same spacers/shims as metal baseplates :-)
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Your photograph of a conventional stamped metal humbucker baseplate might not match what nonesuch can see on a Fender MIM humbucker.