If you have a Fender Strat you may have noticed that the metallic rods or polepieces on your pickups are at varying heights. Not all Strats have the staggered heights, but those that do are compensating for not having adjustable polepieces. But really this is just getting us to the question of why you would want to have staggered or adjustable polepieces. Fender explains:
“staggered polepieces help bring the volume of each individual string into balance so that one string or a couple strings aren’t disproportionally loud compared to the other strings. This is a sonic phenomenon that can and does happen, and depending on your ear for tone it can range from mildly noticeable to outright maddening”
To read more about this concept check out the article
. I adapted the photo above from hyperbros to highlight the polepieces with my super high tech green arrows.
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>Oh Fender for heavens sake, why not just tilt the internal mechanism in the pickup? I always hated those little buggers when playing up the neck and catching every now and again!