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will having my pickups to close together cause me any problems.

I don't think so.
Might depend on the pickup.

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you've got those single coil rings upside down! (i know it doesn't really matter, but to me it looks odd)

No but I would rout the pickups traditionally rather than reversed in your pic. That way you can get the neck pup closer to the fretboard. The further away from the bridge that neck-pup is will give you more tonal variety because the string moves in a larger orbit and excites the magnetic field differently to the bridge pup. I'm not saying it's crucial...it may not even be noticeable over that distance but I believe that's the theory behind having multiple pickups.

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Everything said above is true, although I'll add that it's your guitar, and you should do whatever the heck you want with it. You designed it. You built it. None of us did.

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I guess i never thought about it being upside down. I was just going by look and thats the way i liked it. but from what Dekka said I will turn them around just incase there is a difference. Thanks for the help.

Where did you ger the single coil rings?

stewmac
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Hardware,_p ... =3&xsr=413

I'll see your Stewmac and raise you a GFS!

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Five dollars cheaper X3 = $15.00 .....more money for beer.

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Some strat type pickups have graduated height poles and this would make a difference for them, but not for blade or flat top pickups.

Now where the pickups sample the string relative to the vibrating nodes and where the other pickups see the string is another difference. There have been a lot of studies, papers, forum threads on this. The bottom line is that since we play all over the neck these relationships change. It is this relative pickup position that gives us the between-positions Strat "quack." Not critical but something you can spend forever experimenting and researching and still throw your hands in the air and bolt them down where they look right.

Whatever difference the pole height makes was agreeable with Hendrix.
Since we each decide what sounds or looks right...go with what works for you Tayser.