KeeperOS
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Re: Ideas to de-metal-ify my Jack'o
If I were you, I'd put double zebra but with the cream bobbin towards the neck on BOTH pickups and put chrome knobs, like so:
If you're fine with the pickups then just use some bobbin toppers
on your current pickups. FWIW, that's a bobbin topper on the bridge pu, the neck SD being zebra itself.
As for a chrome pu-ring, I actually like them BUT I've found a cool trick over at Warmoth.com, put a THIN chrome ring OVER the black one for a look that doesn't get tacky.
You can kinda see it at the neck pu:
Chrome hardware usually breaks the dark and mean look and gives it a bit of class but personally I wouldn't change a perfectly good Floyd or tuners just for the look.
If, on the other hand, you're looking to make an upgrade as well then go over at floydupgrades.com and get some stainless steel parts for your Floyd which will of course be in chrome or even better, get a chrome Schaller Floyd (the only one that is a drop-in replacement for your Jakcson OEM one).
If I were you, I'd put double zebra but with the cream bobbin towards the neck on BOTH pickups and put chrome knobs, like so:
If you're fine with the pickups then just use some bobbin toppers
on your current pickups. FWIW, that's a bobbin topper on the bridge pu, the neck SD being zebra itself.
As for a chrome pu-ring, I actually like them BUT I've found a cool trick over at Warmoth.com, put a THIN chrome ring OVER the black one for a look that doesn't get tacky.
You can kinda see it at the neck pu:
Chrome hardware usually breaks the dark and mean look and gives it a bit of class but personally I wouldn't change a perfectly good Floyd or tuners just for the look.
If, on the other hand, you're looking to make an upgrade as well then go over at floydupgrades.com and get some stainless steel parts for your Floyd which will of course be in chrome or even better, get a chrome Schaller Floyd (the only one that is a drop-in replacement for your Jakcson OEM one).
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