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2006-07-14, 21:22
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painting over pickups?
okay, sounds like a bad idea but would it really hurt them, theyre emg hz's so the paint wouldnt be in direct contact and I would be using spray so its not gonna be super think
please serious responses only i know how dumb this may sound but keep it to yourself
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2006-07-14, 22:28
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I once spray painted my alnico pickups in my old explorer. no problems at all. they worked the same as they did before
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2006-07-15, 00:27
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Paint will not affect the magnitism between your strings and pickups.
The only thing that i would think might, is lead paint which i dont think is made anymore... thats just my guess anyways.
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2006-07-15, 01:00
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awesome,thanks guys 
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2006-07-15, 01:02
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on some custom guitars they paint the pickups so it matches the erst of the special paint on ther guitar, so i guess it should be ok 
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2006-07-15, 01:03
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Yeah, I definately heard something about this messing with your pickups, but if the other guys thing it'll be cool, then you can go for it.
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2006-07-15, 03:08
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Its fine,Jackson customs do it all the time.Though,I wouldnt be keen on doing it to open coils,but EMG's will be fine.
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2006-07-15, 04:05
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A lot of high end custom basses these days have matching wood covers over the pickups so paint would be perfectly fine. The only thing I would be concerned with is if you have the pickups up fairly high the strings could wear the paint off of them.
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2006-07-15, 09:29
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You can do it to open coils its just a matter of protecting the screws and slugs.
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2006-07-15, 13:40
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A lot of high end custom basses these days have matching wood covers over the pickups so paint would be perfectly fine. The only thing I would be concerned with is if you have the pickups up fairly high the strings could wear the paint off of them.
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your strings should NEVER touch your pickups.
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2006-07-16, 03:28
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not nesessarily,
i use the jazz pickup to hit a high c sharp on my g string
but anyway, someone else told me to use model paint...
it would be easier to apply and removable if I diddnt like it, but would it be too thick?
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2006-07-16, 23:53
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not nesessarily,
i use the jazz pickup to hit a high c sharp on my g string
but anyway, someone else told me to use model paint...
it would be easier to apply and removable if I diddnt like it, but would it be too thick?
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i guess u could thin the paint with thinner?? deopending wether the paint is waterbased or not, i doubt modelign paint will be waterbase though, usualy wall paint is waterbased (latex etc).
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2006-07-17, 00:37
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I mean the citadel paints, I think theyre latex
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