Many players remove pickup covers from their pickups. I own a Les Paul with Mini Humbuckers, can I remove the covers from them?
During the summer of 1967 I was hanging out at night club in New York City called the Steve Paul Scene. There I was watching a guitarist by the name of Glen Schwartz who was playing with his group The James Gang before Joe Walsh Joined the band. Glen later joined the group Pacific Gas & Electric . Glen was playing an Epiphone Riviera or Sheraton guitar with Epiphone mini humbuckers (each pickup had a row of 6 adjustable pole pieces) without covers. I looked at it closely and it looked like he used tape and glued the bobbins to the bottom plate. The bobbins, magnet and all the goodies inside the pickup are held in place by the cover. If you remove the cover everything will eventually get loose and dangle from the bottom plate. Mini humbuckers that have adjustable pole pieces stay more secure to the bottom plate than a Gibson Firebird pickup. The Firebird doesn t have adjustable poles for the bobbin to wrap around. The traditional Gibson (Patent Applied For) Humbuckers designed by Seth L
