How do you take off a pickup cover?? - Guitar Site

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May 18, 2005 at 4:18 am #21874

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does anyone know how to take the pickup cover off a humbucker? like the chrome covers that come on most humbuckers like on les paul standards? anyone know how to take those off?
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- May 20, 2005 at 8:53 pm #67357
  
  lee_UK
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  i have seen this on projectguitar.com, may be of interest.
  http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/barmagswap.htm
  discribes how to remove the cover from a seymour duncan, i would think it is very similar to your pup.
  good luck.
- May 19, 2005 at 1:09 am #67369
  
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  are you about the screws? because i have seen humbuckers upside down without a cover and they still had those screws
- May 19, 2005 at 12:26 am #67378
  
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  take the humbuckers out, turn them upside down, you should have 2-4 screws (small crossheads) on the underside, unscrew these, then you should have a blob of solder holding the cover on, desolder this ‘blob’ and bobs your uncle, job done..
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