Download Chrome Vs Nickel Pickup Covers Background. Chrome appeared on covers, stopbars etc, in mid 60'si believe. Duncan does indeed sell chrome covered pickups.

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The advantage would be in areas difficult to apply hard chrome. Covered pickups also have the befit of covering and protecting your pickups from dirt, sweat, and can humbucker covers fit any pickup? If you are looking to replace your current silver nickel cover.

Electroless nickel can be baked and the result is a hardness near hard chrome.

Nickel is more vintage, chrome for more modern look. If i'm convinced to remove the nickel cover, am i going to have a pickup covered in a wax mess?? A wide variety of chrome pickup covers options are available to you, such as year, car fitment, and model. Putting a metal cover on a pickup adds a good dose of shielding, as long as the cover is connected to ground.