Gibson Logo pickup covers

[skilpadda]

I have a 91 red LP Classic Plus that I think would look good with Gibson logo pickup covers(like the mid seventies Gibsons).

Does anybody make such covers today or will I have to source used originals from the seventies?

 

[DonP]

They were not popular at all.

I'd be very surprise if someone was making them.

Shop ebay. 1972 was the hayday of those covers.

Since not many were made, they might be considered rare and $$$$

 

[Stevedenver]

i thought it was 1971-my 72 custom did not have the logos-but my 71 did

never liked the look
they re-appeared on the lp signature in mid 70s-plastic creme covers
i think too some of the recrding guitars had logos but i might be wrong-mine doesnt

 

[Kap'n]

They were not popular at all.

One of the issues was that there were separate neck and bridge covers, so the logos faced the same way.

Gibson was ahead of their time. Dopey designer logos didn't come into vogue for another five or six years. :hmm

 

[TM1]

The problem with those covers is the embossed Gibson name created an air pocket under the covers which caused high pitched feedback(microphonics..). Unless the cover is snug against the top of the bobbins, you'll get this. Most new covers are arched. Original PAF and early `60's covers are flat on top. DMC is the only one I know of that has flat-topped covers.
BTW, we all hated the Gibson logo stamped on the covers in the early `70's...those T-Tops sounded good/o.k., but looked Fugly.

 

[skilpadda]

Would not some wax take care of the feedback problem?
I think they look good on some les pauls and not so good on others.
(Bruce Watson of Big Country uses one on the Berlin `89 DVD)

 

[tuberide]

Here's a set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Humbucke...78?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Guitar&hash=item1e5d65e726

 

[Diablo1]

BTW, we all hated the Gibson logo stamped on the covers in the early `70's...those T-Tops sounded good/o.k., but looked Fugly.

Who's we? The LP Deluxe from 1971/72 also used the Gibson logo embossed in the covers on the mini humbuckers. No one I know complained about the looks or sound.

 

[TM1]

The "We" is just about every guitar player I knew and played with in those days(`71/`72). We all thought they were ugly and hated the fact that Gibson was doing this to all the pickup covers. T-Top's were going for $18.00 each then, so we'd buy those and put them in our guitars as the stamped covers only came on production guitars and not on aftermarket Gibson parts.

 

[Zemaitis]

the stamped covers only came on production guitars and not on aftermarket Gibson parts.

Sorry, but they did sell them as aftermarket. A store here was blowing them out at $5.00 apiece back in '73, unused and in boxes. A friend of mine bought a pair and chiseled out his Mustang and put them in. Also saw a Melody Maker in the same store with a set of gold ones installed in it.

 

[Jim Sloves]

They sound amazing in my ES335

 

[Ryan Givhan]

im so glad that this was a quickly passing fad at gibson.