Installed pickup covers

[pskorz]

Se Zach Myers. I’ve wanted chrome pickups since I got it. The zebras look pretty good, but to me it’s just begging for the look of chrome covers. I was going to go with Seth Lovers or Mojotone 59 clones, but I’m quite pleased with the G&B 245S set stock.
so I already had a pair of Duncan pickup covers on hand, a full pack of smokes, and just enough coffee/cola induced insomnia….

I just took them out of the rings, raised up the screw slugs a tad and gave them a test fit. Perfect fit - I’m pretty sure these were the regular-spaced covers, not the trembucker spaced.

fine-sanded the wax off a section of the inside of the cover side and a bit of the baseplates. There was just a fine coat of wax on each. Here’s where I made a choice on a very controversial subject: I used just a piece of double-sided scotch tape and clamped the down. No wax nor silicon. Why? In assuming that I’ll have to take them off, I figured this would be the cleanest route.

Then a quick touch of the soldering iron, a nick flow of a bead, and voilà.

since it’s 1 am I could only test at pretty low volume, but even tapping my pick against them I didn’t get any feedback or noise yet. We’ll see what tomorrow holds…

 

[pskorz]

Can’t seem to edit the post. I meant a “nice” flow of solder, not nick.

 

[Mincer]

Sorry, there has been issues with editing a post since the upgrade. Sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't.

 

[pskorz]

Sorry, there has been issues with editing a post since the upgrade. Sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't.

Ha ha. Fortunately my typos weren’t too unforgivable.

 

[pskorz]

This morning I had the amp up pretty high. When I tap a pick on the pickups it makes a louder click than before, but that’s it. No difference from my other guitars with factory covers vs open bobbins.
No extraneous noise or feedback. I didn’t make any recordings but I don’t notice any major sound difference, or high end attenuation.
or maybe I do-but in a good way. Just tiny or slight, but I think my ears perceive it more like mellowing them out, not cutting high end.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Double-stick tape works great. Regular masking tape or electrical tape can work just fine too, as long as the cover is clamped tightly while you're attaching it.