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Would this work with regular routes? I have some BKPS in my carvin and id love to do this.
it really depends on the magnetic field strength of your pickups, if you've got a big ceramic magnet and efficient polepieces it may not effect things too much.
Given that the cases are probably only about 1mm thick, you'd just have to bring the pickups about 1mm close the usual so that the poles of the pickup are at the same distance with respect to the strings with the cover both on and off.
first off, major props to Mesh (djpharaoah) for finding a place where you can order EMG-style bass pickup plastic covers to retrofit an EMG808 (www.guitarjonesusa.com)
BEFORE:
AFTER:
so, here's how the covers look like. pretty much exact the same dimensions as the EMG808s (EMG40 housing), but hollow (duh?). the pickups that are going into these are a set of BKP Coldsweats
since the pickup's baseplate is too thick to fit directly into the covers, i ended up sawing off the lower 5mm of the housing to get a tight fit:
here's the result:
cheers