I play upside down, can I reverse the pickups in my Strat or pole pieces?
The standard cavity routing in Stratocasters won t allow for you to reverse the pickups in your instrument. You need to have a custom pickup builder make pickups with a reverse magnet pattern. The way you play is similar to what Jimi Hendrix did playing a right handed guitar left handed. He got the benefit of having a different pole pattern on his upper strings that helped contribute to his unique sound and experimental feedback. Trying to remove the polepieces in a bobbin made from vulcanized fibre will likely destroy your coil. I ve reversed magnet Alnico rod polepieces in Fender pickups where the bobbin is molded out of nylon. The magnets are insulated by a thin wall of plastic that keeps the coil from being in direct contact with the magnet.
