This is only a problem if you run two pickups at once. If you combine this pickup (typically installed in the bridge position) with a neck pickup or any other pickup in any position and you use both at once in combination half of the strings will be in phase and half will be out of phase.
HOWEVER this DOES present a problem if you install this pickup into a guitar with more than one pickup. In order for the pickup to work correctly and get good volume balance between the strings the coils are out of phase with each other-if we arranged the magnets so the coils were in phase with each other the pickup would give you bad string volume balance- some strings would be much louder than others so it’s the nature of the design that it works best with the coils out of phase with each other but because each coil senses different strings their phase doesn’t matter. The coils are wound so they dramatically reduce 60 cycle hum (humbucking) however the pickup still sounds like a single coil. This pickup has two coils-one under the bottom three strings and one under the top three. FOR SALE Vintage SUPRO Lap Steel from 1958.In very good condition does not appear to have been. The pickup is meant to mount like any other typical guitar pickup rather than being part of the bridge and tailpiece like the originals are. SUPRO LAP STEEL 1958 Black MOTS Lap Steel Guitar - 331.00. I have made the pickup the exact same size as the original with the exception of its bottom plate which I have made smaller so it will fit on a variety of guitars and the bridge is not built into the pickup like the originals. See more ideas about lap steel guitar, lap steel, steel guitar. This pickup is unusually clear and detailed in tone for how much output it has. Explore GuitarSpaces board 'Lap Steel Guitars', followed by 2,643 people on Pinterest.