Pickup Covers?

[Wooftag]

I just wanted to know why the earlier Fender Jazz basses had covers over the pickups/bridge. are there any disadvantages or advantages in having the metal plates over the pickups? or were there just placed there for appearance?

 

[Snaxster]

I just wanted to know why the earlier Fender Jazz basses had covers over the pickups/bridge. are there any disadvantages or advantages in having the metal plates over the pickups? or were there just placed there for appearance?

Hello. Lots of discussion of that is here:

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