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covers for 7 strings?
« on: September 26, 2006, 12:55:06 AM »
Can you get them? I've got 800 quid or so just now that I'm not supposed to be spending so I thought I might get a 7 string with custom pigs. Ideally I'd like gold covers but black with gold screws would also be cool. Uncovered they'd look a bit bland, though. Although maybe with gold allen bolts...
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2006, 03:11:18 AM »
Asked and answered a BUNCH of times, bro.  Short answer no.  Not BKP, not DiMarzio, not SD, not ANYONE.  No one MAKES the damn covers and the cost of the tooling to make your own is astronomical.  Unless you know someone in a machine shop that can make them FOR you, you are SOL.  Sorry.

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Jeff
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2006, 08:01:18 AM »
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Asked and answered a BUNCH of times, bro.

How would you know? you only just got here :drink: Someone's been doing his research (or just knows these things lol)

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Unless you know someone in a machine shop that can make them FOR you, you are SOL.


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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2006, 03:24:02 PM »
hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it?  :)

Well that and I've read like 6 month's worth of posts in nearly every forum here before I started posting.  I prefer not be a TOTAL noob when I join new forums, you know?  

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Jeff
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2006, 04:10:13 PM »
We really have to find a manufacturer for those, it would be great, the first ever covered 7 strings pickups :lol: and those would be BKPs
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2006, 04:21:36 PM »
I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2006, 04:22:45 PM »
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hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it?  :)

Yeah, except when it returns like 97 hits.  I usually start reading the earliest posts, but end up launching a new thread just before passing into a cataleptic state from which I might never recover...
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2006, 05:14:48 PM »
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hehehe.. the search engine is a beautiful thing, isn't it?  :)

Yeah, except when it returns like 97 hits.  I usually start reading the earliest posts, but end up launching a new thread just before passing into a cataleptic state from which I might never recover...


True, but the search engine on this site is a heckuva lot better than some other sites.  

Regs,
Jeff
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« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2006, 06:05:53 PM »
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I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!

 Economics. BK sell very few 7 string pickups and, as there are no commercially available 7 string covers, the unit cost of producing them would be huge.
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« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2006, 06:37:02 PM »
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Quote from: Crazy_Joe
I don't see the reason why not to do 7 string pickup covers anyways, why is it so impossible, or can they just not be arsed?!

 Economics. BK sell very few 7 string pickups and, as there are no commercially available 7 string covers, the unit cost of producing them would be huge.


That doesn't explain why pickup companies such as DiMarzio don't do them, DiMarzio sell a lot of 7 string pickups i would have thought.
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« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2006, 07:21:39 PM »
is the number 6 something magical? if it goes past it the costs goes to heavens
What's the problem? Doesn't seem very logical :?
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« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2006, 09:53:07 PM »
theyd prob have to make new molds and then somebody would have to melt and pour the liquid metal into those molds.... sorta like T2  :D Still though, your right. It doesnt seem like paying somebody to manufactur a few covers would cost that much. And even so it would probably pay off in the long run.
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« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2006, 10:03:51 PM »
well let's manufacture them - we've found a niche here on the BKP forum ¬¬ no competition for us!
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« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2006, 10:14:24 PM »
EMG does them!
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« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2006, 10:15:29 PM »
Actually they (EMG) use their bass pickup housings and just stick the 7 string guts inside.  That's how the 707 and 81-7 are done.  Also, IIRC, they are black plastic, not metal.

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