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I’ve been trying out painting some pickup covers with flakes and candies. 
Here are some single coil Strat covers. 

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I’m having real trouble uploading pictures here tonight. Is anyone else experiencing that? 

 

 

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I’m having real trouble uploading pictures here tonight. Is anyone else experiencing that? 

Yes, I'm experiencing your trouble too, in the form of missing pictures.

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Yes, I'm experiencing your trouble too, in the form of missing pictures.

@tv101 Very funny. 😜

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Clear coat over the flake.

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Feeling a little blue?

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Even more blue and clear.

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I’m still having internet issues today. It seems like pot luck that images will upload. Is anyone else having trouble uploading their images? 

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It does look fun @boo. 👍🎨 

🙂🎸🙏🎶

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Just for pure fun!!! 🤘😁🤘✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🎸

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Ooooohhhhhhh..... sparkly...... 🙂


   
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@boo

Does the metal flake conduct as in shielding

Some people call me a tool, others are less complimentary. Tools being useful things.


   
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@rocknroller I have no idea to be honest, I’ll go grab a magnet and see what happens. My expectation is that nothing will happen, it will be fine. The actual result could be different and will follow………. 

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@rocknroller912 Actual result is……… Nothing happens, there is no attraction between metal flake and a magnet, none what so ever. 

Here is a little video of how sparkly they are though. 🤣✨✨✨✨ 

I kept the sides in silver base coat and just the tops in flake, all with varying amounts of blue candy and a bit of trickery thrown in too. I need to clean these up now and get all the grubby fingerprints off them. 

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@boo

Thanks for checking, but it could still shield if it’s aluminium or copper flake which isn’t magnetic. It was an idea I had to create balanced line humbuckers by wiring both pick up leads as hot and connecting the cover to ground. Then use a stereo jack plug and socket. Should improve the signal/noise ratio.

The paint job is outstanding by the way.

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Thanks for checking, but it could still shield if it’s aluminium or copper flake which isn’t magnetic. It was an idea I had to create balanced line humbuckers by wiring both pick up leads as hot and connecting the cover to ground. Then use a stereo jack plug and socket. Should improve the signal/noise ratio.

The paint job is outstanding by the way.

@rocknroller912 Oh I see, it sounds plausible and I hope you can get it to work one day. 

I’m glad you like the paint, my job is to make things look good, I need to work on making things sound good though (especially with my guitar playing). 🤣👍

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