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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: ztevie on March 31, 2006, 05:35:11 PM

Title: Covers?
Post by: ztevie on March 31, 2006, 05:35:11 PM: Alright guys... Time to talk me into which cover to get!
I'm buying a MiracleMan calibrated set for a custom guitar a luthier is gonna build for me...

It will be a ESP Horizon shaped body, deep see-thru-blue with chrome hardware, ebony fretboard and ebony pickup-rings.

I'm thinking chrome covers with allen bolts, and also engraved? Any thoughts?
Or will it look sleeker without the engraving?

Tell me what to get!
Title: Covers?
Post by: Jonesy on March 31, 2006, 08:42:13 PM: You can get burnt chrome covers now...they might look sooo cool on ur guitar! 8) Check them out on th epickup pictures bit of the forum.
Title: Covers?
Post by: ztevie on March 31, 2006, 10:22:49 PM: Quote from: Jonesy
You can get burnt chrome covers now...they might look sooo cool on ur guitar! 8) Check them out on th epickup pictures bit of the forum.

Yeah, I've checked them out too...
I agree they would be pretty cool looking with that blue shade that appears on them. I'm not as sure about the red strokes in them though? Is it possible to choose how the burning will appear? That is, more of the blue, none of the red/orange?
Title: Covers?
Post by: Jonesy on April 01, 2006, 11:17:25 AM: Im having the same thoughts (also deciding whether to get chrome or burnt chrome)...I doubt they can totaly determain how the turn out :( ... E mail tim and ask...then let me no :P
Title: Covers?
Post by: sambo on April 01, 2006, 11:19:40 AM: nah i think jonesy is right- they probably cant really determine how they turn out..

but i should think they could get MORE of the blue.... but part from that i dunno
Title: Covers?
Post by: Jonesy on April 01, 2006, 11:21:35 AM: Ye, maybe you could also ask them not to burn the cover so much...so its more subttle?
Title: Covers?
Post by: Ratrod on April 01, 2006, 11:26:25 AM: If you don't burn them too hot, you should get something with more blue and yellow. Like a chrome exhaust pipe on a motorbike.
Title: Covers?
Post by: ztevie on April 01, 2006, 11:27:29 AM: Yeah, it would be great to just have a slight burn on them so there's just a hint of the blue color in them...
Title: Covers?
Post by: Kilby on April 01, 2006, 12:59:11 PM: I was thinking that gun blue would be a good finish, perhaps a future option.

Rob...
Title: Covers?
Post by: sambo on April 01, 2006, 01:13:09 PM: since when is 'gun blue' a colour
Title: Covers?
Post by: Kilby on April 01, 2006, 01:34:49 PM: Quote from: sambo
since when is 'gun blue' a colour

In ye olde days before the very black you see on modern firearms the metal parts where treated to prevent corrosion and stop light reflecting from the metal parts, this was referred to as bluing because it had a bluish cast to the colour.

Some finishes are blacker than others. Shotguns with Damascus barrels have a wonderful grain effect under the bluing.

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/techside/blue_0515/

Or the centre shotgun in this image http://www.gunshop.com/francotte/fran3.jpg is a good example

Or this revolver http://www.armchairgunshow.com/images/triple-lady.jpg

Rob...
Title: Covers?
Post by: sambo on April 01, 2006, 01:58:51 PM: ahhhh i see.... 'ntresting indeed

never knew that
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Post by: Kilby on April 01, 2006, 02:18:03 PM: It's just a real pretty colour and it's tough too.

Just perfect for a pickup cover.

Rob...
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Post by: sambo on April 01, 2006, 02:22:08 PM: mmm not a bad idea that
Title: Covers?
Post by: downrodeo on April 08, 2006, 02:12:27 AM: I was thinking of getting burnt chrome covers but then decided against it. The guitar the pickups will be going into has gold hardware and has a see-thru amber maple quilt-top. I don't even know if I should go for covers because I feel like (at least with my JB/Jazz set) that they sacrifice power and bite for reduced highs and smoother mids and bass. But, I don't know. Maybe a set of NB's would still have a lot of bite with covers.
Title: Covers?
Post by: ztevie on April 08, 2006, 08:32:28 AM: Quote from: downrodeo
I was thinking of getting burnt chrome covers but then decided against it. The guitar the pickups will be going into has gold hardware and has a see-thru amber maple quilt-top. I don't even know if I should go for covers because I feel like (at least with my JB/Jazz set) that they sacrifice power and bite for reduced highs and smoother mids and bass. But, I don't know. Maybe a set of NB's would still have a lot of bite with covers.

Will covers really make such a big difference? I ordered them already so I won't change my mind, but if it's that much difference as you say I will be very disappointed...
It's almost as if it would sound like a completely different pickup?
Title: Covers?
Post by: Johnny Mac on April 08, 2006, 01:41:30 PM: Blueing is just heating steel and dipping it in crude oil so you could try that.
Title: Covers?
Post by: downrodeo on April 08, 2006, 04:37:12 PM: Quote
Will covers really make such a big difference? I ordered them already so I won't change my mind, but if it's that much difference as you say I will be very disappointed...
It's almost as if it would sound like a completely different pickup?

I wouldn't worry about covered BKP's and their sound quality. My bad experience was with Duncans, which I hate, not BKP's which I'm sure to love. So, don't get worried man. Tim gives his covered pups extra winding to compensate for the covers, so the covers only make a very slight difference. VERY SLIGHT is what I hear from the guys, and there haven't been any complaints I don't think about the effect of covers in BKP's.