Re: Seymour Duncan SLS- 1 Lipstick Tube Pickup
The wire is wrapped directly around the magnet, which acts as a bar polepiece. The onew in my Danelectro measure circa 3.5k. The cover is what physically holds the pickups together, and no, it is not magnetized. As far as gold tubes, all that is doe is that the tubes are gold plated prior to assembly.