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barnsleyboybarnsleyboy Frets: 41
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Anybody got a view on the sonic differences between plastic covers with holes or covers with no holes? I want to replace the buff coloured covers on my Harley Benton JA-60 for white ones - purely for aesthetic reasons but I don't want to change the rather splendid sound of them.

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 15277
    edited June 2023
    The rod magnet polepieces protrude beyond the upper fibreboard bobbin plate. These would cause an unsightly bulge in closed covers. 

    Polepiece spacing could be an issue. Measure before ordering replacements.

    Depending on the finish colour, it might be wiser to keep the cream plastic parts and change the pickguard to red torty.
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • WezVWezV Frets: 17500
    edited June 2023
    sonically, no difference as long as the magnets are the same distance from the strings

    to get around the bulge issue, cut some card to sit the same height as the magnets on top of the bobbin
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  • barnsleyboybarnsleyboy Frets: 41
    Funkfingers said:


    Depending on the finish colour, it might be wiser to keep the cream plastic parts and change the pickguard to red torty.
    It's a Lake Placid Blue, never been keen on torty + I like the mint green one that's on it.

    WezV said:
    sonically, do difference as long as the magnets are the same distance from the strings

    to get around the bulge issue, cut some card to sit the same height as the magnets on top of the bobbin
    I'll get my round ended safety scissors out!

    ... thanks chaps, solid covers it is then!
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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2676
    Funkfingers said:
    The rod magnet polepieces protrude beyond the upper fibreboard bobbin plate. These would cause an unsightly bulge in closed covers. 

    Polepiece spacing could be an issue. Measure before ordering replacements.

    Depending on the finish colour, it might be wiser to keep the cream plastic parts and change the pickguard to red torty.
    And nobody likes to see that!
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  • barnsleyboybarnsleyboy Frets: 41
    .... now then!
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 15277
    lovestrat74 said:
    Funkfingers said:
    an unsightly bulge
    And nobody likes to see that!
    Can ya tell what it is yit? ;)
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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