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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: ShredHead on September 07, 2005, 10:49:19 PM

Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: ShredHead on September 07, 2005, 10:49:19 PM
Hey tim i was just wondering if you have ever made pickups using wood as the tops. I've seen a few pickups doe that way and it looks awesome. Can you make them on special request? I still might go with gold topped pickups with GEO engraved into the top, but i was just wondering if you do it.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Steve-Mr Pig 2U on September 07, 2005, 10:56:36 PM
No, they are swineshead pickups. They are hand wound but use much cheaper wire and components (hence the price of them)
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: tech33 on September 08, 2005, 08:24:36 AM
pretty sure Kent Armstrong used to make a pickup with a wooden cover, think it was enclosed tho, so it looked a bit odd!
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: tech33 on September 08, 2005, 08:25:00 AM
pretty sure Kent Armstrong used to make a pickup with a wooden cover, think it was enclosed tho, so it looked a bit odd!
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: tech33 on September 08, 2005, 08:26:46 AM
pretty sure Kent Armstrong used to make a pickup with a wooden cover, think it was enclosed tho, so it looked a bit odd!
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: lepersmeesa on September 08, 2005, 01:08:17 PM
wow, you really want to get your point across.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Tim on September 08, 2005, 01:13:03 PM
Rio Grande also do wooden topped pickups.
I personally prefer the more traditional look of either open coils or classic covers myself.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Minty on September 08, 2005, 05:38:54 PM
I don't really like the wood covers...
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: HJM on September 08, 2005, 06:27:37 PM
Jaydee basses too
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Ratrod on September 08, 2005, 06:56:46 PM
A local guitar builder uses EMG's with wood covers. He makes a laminate from the piece of the top of the guitar that came out for the pickup holes and then sticks 'em on the pickups. This way the pickups match the grain.

Very nice if it's your taste.

There are more guitar builders who do this.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: 38thBeatle on September 08, 2005, 07:00:40 PM
A nice bit of formica I reckon. You can't buy class. That lovely tasteful 1970's stuff.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: tech33 on September 09, 2005, 08:32:47 AM
Quote from: tech33
pretty sure Kent Armstrong used to make a pickup with a wooden cover, think it was enclosed tho, so it looked a bit odd!


oops!!!!! :oops:
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Joe Dorcia on September 09, 2005, 10:46:47 AM
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http://www.bravewoodguitars.co.uk/gallery.html


Scroll down to the zebrano bass with matching cover. It looks a bit crazy, nice guitars on there though.

Hey kevin, i hope that was a quality assurance thing, make sure everything is checked 3 times. Hehe, make sure the customer gets their guitar back rite.

joe
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: R/2e on September 09, 2005, 01:01:54 PM
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A nice bit of formica I reckon. You can't buy class. That lovely tasteful 1970's stuff.


I have a piece of formica left over from making a Dan Armstrong Plexiglass  scratchplate 38th. I'll keep it for your next set of pickups and, if you like, you can have a retro fit on the Apaches!!
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Kemra on September 09, 2005, 10:45:40 PM
Go to www.projectguitar.com and the guitar of the month is a six string fretless bass with wooden pickup covers. I quite like the look myself. |If someone bought a swineshead pickup could BKP canabilize (spelling?) the wooden parts and wind a pickup using them?
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on September 09, 2005, 11:37:04 PM
Quote from: Ratrod
A local guitar builder uses EMG's with wood covers. He makes a laminate from the piece of the top of the guitar that came out for the pickup holes and then sticks 'em on the pickups. This way the pickups match the grain.

Very nice if it's your taste.

There are more guitar builders who do this.


Yeah but some of us take it too far
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Brow on September 10, 2005, 12:16:02 AM
Quote from: Kemra
Go to www.projectguitar.com and the guitar of the month is a six string fretless bass with wooden pickup covers. I quite like the look myself. |If someone bought a swineshead pickup could BKP canabilize (spelling?) the wooden parts and wind a pickup using them?


I PM'd Tim about this a few weeks ago and his answer was that BK can't wind pickups using the Swineshead wooden covers because the Swineshead pickups aren't made to a standard size and the cover wouldn't fit a standard sized BK pickup :)
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Tim on September 10, 2005, 08:40:45 AM
That's right, Jon at Swineshead makes a thinner bobbin out of plastic  but I also seem to remember that the wooden tops aren't just tops, I'm sure Jon told me they're complete bobbins.Either way they're a design that's particular to Swineshead so won't fit ontop regular PAF baseplates lile ours.
It is possible to get tops CNCed out very easily but I've avoided going down this route as so many other makers are doing it and also, I personally don't like the look. Gibson tried it years ago, covering everything in wood on a fancy LP and it never took off, it looked too much, literally like you were playing a coffee table :lol:
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: rinse_master on September 10, 2005, 09:47:42 AM
I remember that LP, it did look a bit OTT, might be OK hanging on a wall or something, but that's not where my guitars live  :)
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: willo on September 10, 2005, 10:58:17 AM
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Quote from: Ratrod
A local guitar builder uses EMG's with wood covers. He makes a laminate from the piece of the top of the guitar that came out for the pickup holes and then sticks 'em on the pickups. This way the pickups match the grain.

Very nice if it's your taste.

There are more guitar builders who do this.


Yeah but some of us take it too far


and more:

(http://www.robertkeeley.com/images/other/Side-KPS-1-black-bkgrnd.jpg)

Robert Keeley Private Stock. I guess all this dark wood is for people who drive E-type Jags or something.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: rinse_master on September 10, 2005, 01:18:04 PM
Quote from: willo
I guess all this dark wood is for people who drive E-type Jags or something.


LOL, yeah!

I would much rather have a scuffed up bit of steel with a few scratches, than a scuffed up bit of wood to stomp on.

It looks nice, but I wouldn't want to use it.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Tim on September 11, 2005, 09:00:11 AM
Ditto................stompers are for, well stomping on :lol:
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: 38thBeatle on September 11, 2005, 10:45:25 AM
they'd ( wooden stomp boxes) be ok for baroque music- maybe even heavy baroque. A whole new genre. Sorry lads, still a bit hungover from last night.
Title: Wooden pickup covers
Post by: Minty on September 11, 2005, 12:54:30 PM
Quote from: willo
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Quote from: Ratrod
A local guitar builder uses EMG's with wood covers. He makes a laminate from the piece of the top of the guitar that came out for the pickup holes and then sticks 'em on the pickups. This way the pickups match the grain.

Very nice if it's your taste.

There are more guitar builders who do this.


Yeah but some of us take it too far


and more:

(http://www.robertkeeley.com/images/other/Side-KPS-1-black-bkgrnd.jpg)

Robert Keeley Private Stock. I guess all this dark wood is for people who drive E-type Jags or something.


:lol: