"cheater" toasters....

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue May 06, 2014 12:44 am

I LOVE the look of toaster pick-ups..... there's the dilemma: the Mrs brought home some silver duck tape (brand name, hence the spelling) and I have been VERY tempted to snip off a couple little strips and "toaster-fy" the pickups on my 650C.. Am I insane??? has anyone else here ever cheated to get the look of toasters?!?!?!?! fess up .. we won't judge

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Tue May 06, 2014 9:31 am

not sure if serious

If serious, this would be a mess. The goo would get all over everywhere. I put black electrical tape over some bat wing inlays on a very cheap doubleneck I was using and it was all I could do to keep the corners down. I can only imagine tape under a right-hand-action area like the pickups would quickly become a hot mess.

loverickbass · Post by **loverickbass** » Wed May 07, 2014 7:32 pm

I have put toaster covers on my higains.

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Wed May 07, 2014 8:15 pm

loverickbass wrote:I have put toaster covers on my higains.

I believe there are several threads about Toaster covers installations on High Gains and HB1s
Using duck tape sounds like a quacky idea to me ....

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu May 08, 2014 6:03 pm

I guess I'm a little confused about why it would be bad .... I mean there was a sticker on my pickups when I bought the guitar....

jps · Post by **jps** » Thu May 08, 2014 6:27 pm

fluffy wrote:I guess I'm a little confused about why it would be bad .... I mean there was a sticker on my pickups when I bought the guitar....

It would be pretty redneck looking.

And I don't mean the limited edition instrument..............

edski · Post by **edski** » Thu May 08, 2014 7:01 pm

fluffy wrote:I guess I'm a little confused about why it would be bad .... I mean there was a sticker on my pickups when I bought the guitar....

I didn't like the residue from that, either. I agree with Jason, it would be a sticky mess. But some like that...

Personally I like the idea of putting a toaster cover over the PUP.

kennyhowes · Post by **kennyhowes** » Fri May 09, 2014 8:55 am

...or you could put toaster pickups on your 650.

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Fri May 09, 2014 9:18 am

You know, on second thought, go for it.

*popcorn*

BILLYC58 · Post by **BILLYC58** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:05 pm

I did the toaster cover mod over my high gains and it came out great it took me about 8hrs but it was worth it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun May 11, 2014 2:28 am

kennyhowes wrote:...or you could put toaster pickups on your 650.

should several $100.00 bills mysteriously appear in my life I would absolutely do that

manta · Post by **manta** » Sun May 11, 2014 6:43 am

You're just talking about one strip of thin, shiny silver tape across the center each one of the humbuckers, yes? I see no real reason why it wouldn't work and from a fairly short distance away would appear to be toasters. Try it on one and see how it works and report back or sends us a photo. It's not much tape at all.

What can happen???

manta · Post by **manta** » Tue May 13, 2014 9:57 pm

Whaddya think Craig? You gonna try it?

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:48 pm

Come on, do it, Craig!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon May 19, 2014 10:17 pm

eh, I've held off on the idea of any "drastic modification" as I'm wrestling with the idea of selling it ... unless anybody has a Les Paul they'd want to swap for it. I'm really pining for a LP and the only way I see that happening is selling or swapping my 650C cos it sure ain't gonna be my 360/12 or my 4003!! is such a thought sacrilege? am I going to get cyber- stoned to death now?!?!?

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