Took a guitar to the doctor today and neck pickup doesn't seem to lay parallel

[Matt300ZXT]

I took my Warrior to a local luthier the other day to have him level some frets to get rid of dying notes and he said he could see a dip around the 14th fret. Anyways, I get it back today and it feels great. He adjusted the truss rod, leveled the frets, recrowned and polished them and it plays great. He put my new strings on in E (even though I told him Eb and he wrote it down) and mentioned he had to remove the neck pickup and bezel to get good access to the higher frets. I'm playing it tonight and I notice that the edge of the neck pickup closest to the bridge dips a decent bit lower than the part closest to the fretboard and when I tried to adjust it with the screws, the fretboard end would raise up more than the lower edge of it so tried to run it the other way to lower it. The bridge edge of it lowers in just a little and then the screw pops out of the pickup leg and won't raise back up, so I have to take off these brand new damn strings and put the springs and screws back in place.

Now that I've got it back together and it raises/lowers, the neck pickup still doesn't lay "flat or parallel" like the bridge pickup does. It tilts lower towards the bridge side but not nearly as bad as it was before. This guitar never had this issue that I can recall before I took it in. Sure, the fretboard plays better and no dying notes anymore, but I'm kind of pissed I had to waste the $10 set of strings that didn't last a day, plus put a new set on tomorrow when I paid for the guitar to work right out of the box.

Is there any way to get the neck pickup to raise/lower evenly like every other humbucker I can recall ever having adjusted?

 

[MadAsAHatter]

A couple of things come to mind.

1. The pickup legs are slightly bent. I highly doubt this is the case.
2. The springs my not be sitting flush with either the pickup legs or underside of the pickup ring. Sometimes this happens if the springs were excessively long and clipped shorter. The side that was clipped may not sit level enough. If they were clipped try flipping the springs 180 degrees.
3. The pickup's lead wire may be bunched up under the pickup. I'm thinking this is the most likely case. Remove the pickup and take off the control cavity cover. Then put the pickup back in. As you put it in, take the slack out of the wire by gently pulling it from the control cavity side. Just don't pull too taut, only enough to keep it from bunching up.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

To add to MadAsAHatter, Sometimes I've had this issue with pickups rings being a little off seated or put in backwards from the way they were.

I have a few ERGs that are made specifically this way, too (tilted pickups, something about magnet pull/that djent bouncy twang). Not saying yours is suppose to be, it's just interesting that I've seen people comment about it here and there as poor QC, but they're actually suppose to be that way on many of those types of guitars if any of y'all ever come across it.