Putting on pickup cover?
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STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Putting on pickup cover?
You'll need a Duncan cover and the spacing of the screws needs to match..Here's how I do it...
Place a piece of masking tape over the flat slug poles on the bobbin...Carefully press the cover all the way onto the bobbins making sure it seats all the way over the screws...I Like to loosen the 6 bobbin screws out before I do this...Clamp the cover with something...I use a small plastic squeeze handle clamp I got from Home Depot...Put a bead of solder on both long sides of the pickup plate..The solder needs to flow shiny and land between the cover edge and the pickup base plate...I have a tutorial in the vault about replacing the magnet in a humbucker with pictures..
Cick here.. http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
zteleman said:
You'll need a Duncan cover and the spacing of the screws needs to match..Here's how I do it...
Place a piece of masking tape over the flat slug poles on the bobbin...Carefully press the cover all the way onto the bobbins making sure it seats all the way over the screws...I Like to loosen the 6 bobbin screws out before I do this...Clamp the cover with something...I use a small plastic squeeze handle clamp I got from Home Depot...Put a bead of solder on both long sides of the pickup plate..The solder needs to flow shiny and land between the cover edge and the pickup base plate...I have a tutorial in the vault about replacing the magnet in a humbucker with pictures..
Cick here.. http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
STRATDELUXER97
Stratoblaster Tone Meister
Re: Putting on pickup cover?
Well very cool...Glad the tutorial helped you out there brother... :dance:
Jeff_H said:
Well very cool...Glad the tutorial helped you out there brother... :dance:
Re: Putting on pickup cover?
Hey StratD., thanks for the link. It does look doable, although I'm not comfortable soldering anything (I would of course practice before attempting this). However, one thing you said got me curious; you stated that some people don't solder the cover back into place but you do to keep it from popping of, which makes sense to me. Would there be some other way that you can think of to hold the cover in place without soldering?
Hey StratD., thanks for the link. It does look doable, although I'm not comfortable soldering anything (I would of course practice before attempting this). However, one thing you said got me curious; you stated that some people don't solder the cover back into place but you do to keep it from popping of, which makes sense to me. Would there be some other way that you can think of to hold the cover in place without soldering?
