Method for providing a wrap-around shield for a magnetic recording transducer

A method for fabricating a magnetic transducer having a pole including a pole tip and a flared region, the pole tip having a bottom and a top wider than the bottom, the method comprising:

• providing a polydimethylglutarimide (PMGI) layer over the pole, the PMGI layer having a first thickness of at least ten nanometers and not more than sixty nanometers;
• providing a photoresist layer on the PMGI layer, the photoresist layer having a second thickness of at least one micrometer;
• exposing a portion of the photoresist layer above the pole tip to light;
• exposing the photoresist layer and the PMGI layer to a developer, the PMGI layer being soluble in the developer such that the portion of the photoresist layer and a portion of the PMGI layer under the portion of the photoresist layer is removed;
• depositing a write gap;
• and
• providing a wrap-around shield on the pole tip.