Flat magnet poles or staggered magnets?
Flat poles are great for guitars with radii equal/greater than 9.5. Staggered magnets are great for the curved radius, 7.25. There is no reason to put a staggered pickup on a flat radius guitar except for aesthetic reasons, which is not wrong, however, those high D and G poles will make it a little difficult to make your Strat sound totally balanced. Of course, Tele players don’t have much to worry about as the stagger on Tele pickups is so slight, only on the D and G. But Strat players have to be a little more careful to select a pickup that suits their guitar. “Bevelled magnets, or non-bevelled?” I doubt if I was blind folded that I could ever hear a difference between the two. Bevelling may have an effect on how directional a magnet is upon the string, but that’s about it. I bevel and polish my magnets upon request mostly for aesthetic reasons. Fender used to bevel their magnets so they’d slide into the bobbins better and also to grind off any chips in the magnets. Those old Fender
