Can you put single coil pickup covers with no holes on regular pickups?

axisus

Can you put single coil pickup covers with no holes on regular pickups?

I'm after that look, but I can't stretch to EMGs or Lace Sensors right now.

Sarge

I wouldn't suggest it on top of staggered poles, but I don't see why not on non staggered, aren't covered pickups just that? 

ICBM

Sarge said:

I wouldn't suggest it on top of staggered poles, but I don't see why not on non staggered, aren't covered pickups just that? 

No, covered pickups have the polepieces flush with the top of the bobbins. It does make a difference - the pickup coil is then further from the strings - but not that much.

If the pickups are Fender US Standard types with plastic bobbins, you can push the polepieces down until they're flush though...

Funkfingers

axisus said:

Can you put single coil pickup covers with no holes on regular pickups?

Yes … on Fender Mustang pickups and the Seymour Duncan SSL-4 Quarter Pound.

I have two black single coil covers of this type. They slip over some bobbins more easily than others.