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Note that the extra windings are not accommodated by the stock bobbin aperture. In other words, the windings are sticking out of the sides of the bobbin and being crushed by the pickup cover!!  This is a good example of how not to wind a pickup.  What G&L should have done is increase the size of the bobbin aperture from .13-inches to something like .18-inches.  This is easily done as the knurled pole pieces are long enough to allow for this.  I don’t know if the pickups on this particular guitar are an anomaly, but let’s assume that they are all like this. 

Therefore, I strongly suggest that anyone with 20th Anniversary ASAT do not, under any circumstance, remove the pickup covers.  Doing so could easily break one of the windings and you’ll have a dead pickup (I was very lucky!).  Likewise, be very careful when adjusting pickup height.  I fear that a winding could spontaneously break with this sloppy construction.  Shame on you G&L.

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