| You could cover the top of the pickup with some wood or pearloid (it'd add a boutique touch), but I have not yet found a stock-replacement pickup cover that will cover the exposed polepieces. I could be wrong, but I do not think they exist. Most pickups without exposed polepieces are designed that way from the beginning, and I think it would be unwise to try to modify exposed polepieces so they can be covered.
You could swap pickups for something that has flush polepieces and thus is easier to cover (Ultra Jazzes, Quarter Pounders, SD Stack models), or you could swap for pickups without polepieces (Carvin H50S, Bartolini, EMG Select).
Before you plop down money for new pickups though, try a few things:
* Hitting the pickups is generally a sign of the pickups being too high or of you playing too aggressively. Lower the pickups by a few millimeters and see if that helps.
* It may also be a sign of a downward plucking technique, which is bad. You say it only happens when you slap, which is as downward as it gets. Try a lighter slapping technique (a slightly lower action will help this), or slapping closer to the heel of the neck than to the neck pickup.
* Clear nail polish. Paint the polepieces with a few thin-to-moderate coats of it. This will dull the metal-on-metal click sound. Don't make each coat very thick or it will take ages to dry, and don't put too many coats on; even one coat between string and polepiece is usually enough.
Last edited by Liko : 09-11-2007 at 01:01 PM.
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