Wooden pickup covers

[FELINEGUITARS]

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

[Brow]

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 :)

[Tim]

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:

[rinse_master]

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  :)

[willo]

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

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

[rinse_master]

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.

[Tim]

Ditto................stompers are for, well stomping on :lol:

[38thBeatle]

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.

[Minty]

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:



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

:lol: