I recently finished a 2 string slider. I took apart a Gitty gold Foil pickup and mounted the coil in the lid. The coil is only a 1/4" thick and fit nicely in the lid, and sandwiched it between 2 pieces of a cut up sesame oil can from work. There was a bit of feedback at first so I took it apart and put a strip of electrical tape on both sides of the coil, that cut out most of the feedback. It is some what microphonic but not to bad. I grounded the pieces of can, very quite no string buzz. The box is 1 1/4'' thick. More pictures and video at http://bscbg.com/for-sale
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Okay, I didn't see it in the pic. Was just letting you know if you weren't aware. Grounding them probably helped a lot too.
Paul, I cut a hole thru the cover, over the magnet, below the strings. You can't see it in these pictures
Good work Jeff!
Those pickups are supposed to be microphonic. What kind of can covers did you use? The metal can covers over and under the pickup will interfere with the pickup's magnetic field and make it sound weak or strange unless you use a non-magnetic metal like aluminum, copper or brass. You can get away with it if there is more tin content to the regular cans, but most modern day cans have more steel content.