I recently worked a little barter deal with Mudcat to trade a pedal build for a set of Gibson 498T/490R humbuckers he had laying around. Put them into that used Epi G-400 SG I bought on eBay a couple of weeks back, and they sound great. The 498T is noticeably smoother than the stock HotCH Epi bridge p'up, with a sweet, singing top-end. And the 490R has it all over the Epi '57CH neck p'up, which I found rather dull and lacking character. So it's a big tonal upgrade! Thanks, Mud!! : :

However, the appearance needs some work. First of all, they have the gold finish covers and don't match the rest of the hardware. Secondly, Mud obviously put a fair amount of mileage on them, because the covers (mostly the bridge) are pretty worn and some of the pole screws are quite rusty/corroded. None of these things affect the tone, but I'm like a little old lady with my gear. No "relic" stuff for me--I work hard to keep my gear looking as new as possible. The rest of this SG is in very good shape and I want the p'ups to match that look. So I have a couple of chromed humbucker covers coming from StewMac, along with two sets of screw pole pieces.

Looks to me like swapping the new ones for the old should be straightforward enough, but since I haven't done this before, thought I'd just float it out here for comments advice. Y'all got any??