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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on July 23, 2015 at 5:55am

Brass is generally considered to be a tone sucker, but that's with alnico magnets. The neodymium magnets used in flatpups are much more powerful, so the brass may not be an issue, or may be much less of an issue.

Materials such as wood, nickel silver, aluminum and plastic are considered to be tonally transparent for pickup covers.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 24, 2015 at 5:55am

THANKS 

I will drill 3 holes in line with the mag that should do it.

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on July 25, 2015 at 5:58am

Just for fun, if you have enough material, try one cover that's solid and one with holes drilled for the mags.

Let us know what happens!

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Permalink Reply by Bob Harrison on July 24, 2015 at 1:48pm

That's good information.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 27, 2015 at 7:13am

I've made the cover.

drilled 3 holes as stated work fine.

put another plate over the top and it still work fine .

makes no difference whether the f/pup is covered completely or not it still work.

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on July 28, 2015 at 6:36am

Thanks for reporting back - that's what I thought.

I believe the reason it works is that neos are so much more powerful than alnicos (about 5X). I've heard of people using steel for covers (such as putting a neo pickup underneath a license plate) and it worked fine. Normally, steel would block the magnetic field (when used as a cover).

So basically, whatever "rules" there are for alnicos don't necessarily apply to neos.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 28, 2015 at 1:04am

I was thinking that you had purchased ThinBuckers with covers on them, but I guess you got the bare model instead?

I have sold a lot of the ones with the brass cover on them, and have not had any complaints about loss of tone or other performance issues.

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Permalink Reply by Elmar Zeilhofer on July 28, 2015 at 2:39am

Agree to you Dan. I read about treble eating brass too but in practice I haven't noticed any difference with or without brass covers.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 28, 2015 at 5:15am

yeah I did Dan.

I wanted a bare one for my son's xmas guitar.

I had spare but wasn't sure what I was going to do with it till now.

all is ok.

just need gold string putting on when I get them

once sorted I'll post pictures of it up. and its a cracker my best one yet.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on July 28, 2015 at 6:17am

Cool!

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