Can it be solved?

[LtKojak]

You can also try getting a small steel washer with a hole large enough to fit over the magnet, which will increase the surface area on that pole.

I think that's the most feasible thing to try... I don't care if it looks funny, I play with my ears, not with my eyes!

Mind you, I use both hands as well!

[shane1b4u]

Hmmm

Why not just buy the wider saddles, as opposed to the whole bridge?

[Possum]

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Why are you obsessing on such a small thing? Vintage strats were like this too, I don't remember Jimi complaining about it

[spud1950]

Why not just buy the wider saddles, as opposed to the whole bridge?

It's the holes in the trem block that determine the string spacing.Putting wider saddles on,beside the fact that they won't fit,will do nothing to change the string spacing.

[FunkyKikuchiyo]

I don't know, I've seen much worse for pole spacing. I think incorrect heights tends to do more damage than incorrect spacing, but that's just me.

I've never had trouble popping ceramic magnets off before... super glue and the stuff some other companies use that kinda looks like hot glue doesn't hold all that well. Typically a quick blow knocks it loose....... tactfully tapping it on the side or something and it should move all around. There are solvents that can be used, but they also like to melt plastic (a show of hands of everyone who has learned that the hard way!)

If it is really bugging you, you might consider shopping for a new bridge. It might mean plugging the mounting holes and redrilling, but getting a higher quality bridge could be a double win. The Paul Reed Samicks (sic) are great little rockers, but tend to have pretty light weight hardware.

[David Schwab]

I don't know, I've seen much worse for pole spacing. I think incorrect heights tends to do more damage than incorrect spacing, but that's just me.

Doesn't look so bad to me either.

I've never had trouble popping ceramic magnets off before... super glue and the stuff some other companies use that kinda looks like hot glue doesn't hold all that well. Typically a quick blow knocks it loose....... tactfully tapping it on the side or something and it should move all around. There are solvents that can be used, but they also like to melt plastic (a show of hands of everyone who has learned that the hard way!)

If you read through the thread, you will see those are Lace Holy Grail pickups. They don't have a ceramic magnet on the bottom.

I'd get a new bridge myself.

[EtLa]

so the first string is so off that it has about only half of the volume of the other strings. The original p'ups didn't have this problem...

maybe your pickups are too close to the first string.

[LtKojak]

To close this thread...

I don't know why this thread came to the surface, anyway I've solved the problem installing a set of StewMac's Golden Age Single coil on the PRS and moved the Holy Grails to my Squire Strat.

The Golden Age polepieces fall better under the strings in the PRS and so do the Holy Grails on the Squier... now I have two much better sounding guitars, so I can part with the Squier, as I like the PRS better (I just don't get along with the 25.5" scale... so it seems!) and the Golden Age hot set sound marvelously in that guitar. In the Squier they sound like cardboard!

Also the Holy Grails sounded thin and characterless in the PRS, now on the Squier sound great and no more problems with the first string either.

This is just another proof of not any p'up will work well in any guitar... they're finnicky little critters!

HTH,