Quote Originally Posted by Andyxlh View Post
Gary Moore's famous les Paul had the pickups in the wrong way around, either one or both I'm not sure, and apparently that was the source of the fantastic tone that came out of it. I'm a sceptic, I'd say it was more to do with the talent in the man's fingers...
The neck pickup was reversed when re-installed after being rewound, but that was not the reason for the out-of-phase sound. That was because when re-assembling the pickup,the two magnets in the base had been flipped over, which meant that the pickup was now anti-phase with the bridge pickup.