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ShredHead

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« 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.
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« Reply #1 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)
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tech33

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« Reply #2 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!
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« Reply #3 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!
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« Reply #4 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!
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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2005, 01:08:17 PM »
wow, you really want to get your point across.
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« Reply #6 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.
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« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2005, 05:38:54 PM »
I don't really like the wood covers...
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2005, 06:27:37 PM »
Jaydee basses too
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« Reply #9 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.
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« Reply #10 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.
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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2005, 08:32:47 AM »
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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:
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Joe Dorcia

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« Reply #12 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
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« Reply #13 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!!
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« Reply #14 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?
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