Covers and magnets

[beaubrummels]

Something I noticed haphazardly with my Duncans is that all my gold-covered pickups seem to be a touch brighter than uncovered or straight chrome/nickel covered of the exact same model. I've observed this with the Jazz set, 59s and Seths at least.

[Adieu]

If the cover is open, the effect is a lot smaller. Eddy currents move in perpendicular circles, so they will still form around the outside of the cover, but of course there are none above the pickup, where the metal has been removed, where the eddy currents would be the most substantial.

That's probably why Filter'trons have that "H" hole pattern on top; it breaks up the circular paths of the eddy currents. I'm not sure if that's what Ray Butts was thinking, but that's the outcome that was achieved.

Hmm... so eddies or no eddies?

[beaubrummels]

Hmm... so eddies or no eddies?

Looks like you've got some Eddie's, Zakk's and Slash's.

[Adieu]

Looks like you've got some Eddie's, Zakk's and Slash's.

Pretty much

Bridge Super 70, neck EMG 81, and some way outside the sandbox wiring concocted god knows how while under the influence.... but somehow it works.