Flight959 Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 So, If you take the cover of a pup, what's left underneath.... Will it just look like an open coil? Regards Flight959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolff Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 I'm pretty sure it will. Those early guys like Clapton started doing that to get a slightly more raw tone I believe. All those vintage LPs you see with the zebra pups - I believe those all had covers at one time. There is that wax potting issue though that someone else may want to address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobv Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 There's a recent Steward MacDonald tips newsletter that shows how to remove the covers. Now, why, that's a different question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 Sorry guys, What iam asking is...If you take the covers off will they look like say Wolff's pickups??? Flight959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucy-guitar Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Yes, definitely they will look more or less like Wolff's PUs, either double black (like Wolff's), zebra (black&white) or double white, depending on the PUs you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolff Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Sorry guys' date=' What iam asking is...If you take the covers off will they look like say Wolff's pickups??? Flight959[/quote'] Well, like I said in my original post, yes. Although some pups are wax potted so you may have to deal with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepblue Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Arent all Gibson pups wax potted? I also believe that if your looking for zebra pups on old Gibsons its a crap shoot....some had em' some didnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolff Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 LOL - I'm not even sure what wax potting is..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobv Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Wax potting is when they dip the pickups in a vat of hot wax (not just melted, but really hot) so the liquid penetrates the windings of the coils. They leave it in there until the air stops bubbling out and the wax has seeped into everything. Whe it cools and hardens it is meant to keep the coils from vibrating. Without it, un-potted pickups have a tendency to get microphonic and squeal. The early pickups weren't potted so the Historics have un-potted Burstbucker 1 and 2 pickups, the rest I believe are wax potted. If you have any doubt, back out the screw polepieces a touch and you should see some wax peeking out from under the cover. I suppose if you removed the cover from a wax potted pickup, and you successfully avoided igniting the wax with your soldering iron while trying to get the blobs off the back of the cover, you would then have to scrape the wax off with something blunt but soft like a plastic scraper, leaving the wax in the coils but not on the outside of the tape and the top of the bobbins - anybody tried this?? C'mon, sombody admit they Jimmy Page'd their bridge pickup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunsNRoses23 Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 yes.. well at least on my les p once i put some covers on.. BUT I REGRET THATT! haha :P but when i took them off it was the same open coils as my les p always hass.. so i guess its gonna stay like that unless the thing that they said of something.. you know.. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolff Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 bobv, once again I thank you for sharing your detailed knowledge. :-) I JPd my LP Classic by adding a PU cover to the neck pup. That was actually a nice guitar and in some ways the plaintop was just as nice as the flame on the Standard. I just couldn't handle those 'aged' neck inlays. >_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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