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Is there a problem with just having an empty pickup slot?


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I don't know why people are telling you to lower it down or modify your playing style - if you don't want it there, just take it out

Besides the obvious gapping hole, lowering the pup is the easiest way to achieve the objective while avoiding string removal, pickguard removal, and desoldering. On top of that IF he should want to resell the guitar as stock he'd have to reverse the same process.

 

The only complication I see is if he lowers the pickup too far and runs out of threads on the height adj screw.

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Leslie West, when he was with Mountain, removed the neck pup from his V. He said, then, that he used the empty slot as an ashtray.

 

 

I don't know about the ashtray bit, but yes sir he sure did. You can see him live playing the above mentioned V (you can see the empty neck slot around the 1:02 mark).

 

Mountain - Roll Over Beethoven - Beat Club 1972

 

[video=youtube;w1jy5JBbw0s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1jy5JBbw0s

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