The rear or bridge position pickup is wound "top coming" and with a South polarity. The front pickup is wound "top going" and the magnets are oriented for North polarity. The pickups are wound for the lap steel sound, but the difference is in how the magnets are oriented and how the windings are installed. (Rule of thumb: Distance between top of pickup magnets and string bottoms is the thickness of two quarter dollars.) The pickups maybe raised or lowered for proper tone balance between the treble and bass strings. Elevating screws are located at the ends of the pickups. The design of the pickups is very innovative and takes advantage of electrical phase differences between them to cancel hum. The most outstanding feature of the Stringmaster® guitars is the pair of counterbalanced pickups mounted on each neck which provide a wide range of sound choices not available from just one pickup and, at the same time, which eliminate hum and noise from external sources such as fluorescent lights, motor sparking, strong radio frequency fields, etc. (NOTE: The single neck lap style guitar with Stringmaster® features was called the Deluxe 6®or Deluxe 8®) This family of guitars set a standard for tone, design and workmanship that endures to this day. Stringmaster® guitars were made from 1953 through about 1980 in two, three, and four neck models ( quads were not made after 1968). The Fender Stringmaster® steel guitar presented to steel guitar players the first major changes in design and improvement in (primarily multineck) Hawaiian steel guitars, since guitars were first electrified in about 1932. Leo Fender took tremendous pride in designing instruments that were both innovative and would stand the test of time and would be accepted by the individual player and music universe.
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