Description
12 hole chrome metal humbucker cover 52mm hole spacing. Generally this is a bridge cover.
This replacement metal pickup cover can be fitted to a variety of open bobbin pickups to give a sleek finish look to match the overall scheme of your instrument.
Adding covers to pickups can, as well as changing the look of them, alter the tone of the pickup by reducing some of the top end.
Replacement covers need to be soldered onto the baseplate of the pickup. A small area of the inside plating will need to be sanded / filed /scraped back to bare metal in the location you will be soldering to get a good electrical connection between the casing and the earth circuit of the instrument. A minimum 40 watt , though preferably higher wattage, soldering iron will be needed for this as you need to quickly make the joint without dissipating too much heat throughout the rest of the pickup.
