Panterachat

someone fill me in on what that is. it has to do with pickups. my guess was floyd spacing, but im probably wrong. so what does this mean?

its only for the bridge pickup, simply put its spacing in the pickup for floating tremolos so the actual pick up lines with the string. if you got a floyd and you dont get your bridge pick up f spaced its not gonna sound as good

thanks for the info. the bridge pickup im getting doesnt have an F space option

I thought you get the X2N for the bridge? The blades work with every spacing.

Simply put; if you have a Floyd Rose, you need F-spaced pickups. For this reason you can think of "F" as standing for "Floyd".

Your pickups will generally sound normal if they aren't F-spaced, however it is recommended you get them.

Pickups with rails like the X2N and the Bill Lawrence XL500 dont need to be F-spaced, since the rails span the width of the pickup and not individual strings.

F spacing is Fender spacing. It has to do with their tremolo's saddle spacing. It was different then the normal Gibson bridge spacing.
It all started when EVH stuck a Gibson PAF in his Strat knock off and the pole pieces didn't line up with the strings.
As Disembodied said, a blade style doesn't need "F spacing" since the whole blade is the pole. The same deal goes for EMGs.

Sheldon wrote:F spacing is Fender spacing. It has to do with their tremolo's saddle spacing. It was different then the normal Gibson bridge spacing.
It all started when EVH stuck a Gibson PAF in his Strat knock off and the pole pieces didn't line up with the strings.
As Disembodied said, a blade style doesn't need "F spacing" since the whole blade is the pole. The same deal goes for EMGs.

Hmm, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. I was just told by someone at Musicians Friend about the whole "F is for Floyd" thing.