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Comment by Uncle John on November 2, 2021 at 1:58am

Good info, thanks.  I like to tell the story of my fire fighter son who use to head up a fund raiser where a local brewery made fire house ale for a short season and a portion of sales went to the fund raising cause.   And they also had a sampler of 6 or so un labeled beers that people voted on which they liked best.   PBR is kind of low brow to some folks, but PBR won the taste test a couple of years in a row.

Comment by Lynn Hagans on November 1, 2021 at 2:46pm

Thanks!  It is part of a PBR can.  I don't have photos, but I made a couple of wooden forms kind of like a mold that sandwich the aluminum, then press or hammer a wood block that forms the aluminum into the shape of a flat pup cover.  The beer can metal is a lot thinner though and it ends up wrinkling the edges at the corners, so you have to use some sort of trim ring to hide that.  I had cut out a Padron box for a paint can lid resonator and I thought the cut out piece would make a different looking trim ring.  The pickup works great.  I ended up using some bondo and putting that in the beer can cover, pressing in the pup and slathering on more bondo.  

Comment by Uncle John on October 31, 2021 at 6:35am

Love it. Did you cut a PBR can for a pickup cover? If so, does the pickup still work okay? Nice box, f holes and controls.