Moderated by Bob Gollihur , rumpelstiltskin. Drums and Percussion Hit It! General NEW! Songwriting and Composition Let's Hear It! Virtual Music - Online Collabor Powered by UBB. Forums Calendar Active Threads. Previous Thread. Next Thread. Print Thread. Gotta have that funk. Copy Link to Clipboard. Share Post on Facebook. Share Post on Twitter. Joined: Jan Posts: 5, Likes: 87 ennui, az. Quote: Originally posted by dcr I am having this same problem at the moment on my jazz bass.
It is bearable for now in that I have found a good placement, but I know I'll need to "refoam" soon. That Fender brand weatherstrip in the link 09 posted is interesting, hilarious, and expensive.
I think I'll go to the hardware store Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Switch to Threaded Mode. Show Likes. View Profile. Private Message. On a P-bass pickup set you have two leads — typically black and white. Place them into the bass with the wires running nicely into the preamp cavity. Now we are going to put the pickup screws in by hand. Yes, you have that powerful electric screw driver that saves you tons of time and is a kick to use.
Now get your soldering iron warmed up and good to go. When soldering remember that it is important have good tin on the tip of your soldering iron. Our black wire from the pickups goes to ground, which on the back of the potentiometer. It helps to have a good amount of heat because it tend to take a little more heat from your iron when connecting to potentiometers. Plug it in and see how it works. If everything is good, replace the pickup guard, find those screws you put aside, and install the pickguard back to the bass.
Your hand was covering the pot and wires when you were soldering the wire. Could not see just where you were connecting the wire to the pot. Strange Guitarworks. Spotting a fake guitar. Katrina guitar rescue. Jan 15 Sometimes a seemingly simple job becomes wildly complex in an instant.
This week I was presented with a normally simple task: installing a Music Man Stingray pickup. Easy, right? Not so fast…. Whoever had installed the pickup had screwed it down as low as it would go, and yet it was still pretty close to the strings.
Apparently the original Music Man pickup is very thin top to bottom, and only a direct replacement with the same dimensions would fit properly. I was going to have to deepen the pickup cavity to fit the EMG in there — so much for the quick win! You can see here that the EMG pickup is sitting way too high out of the cavity — almost 2cm. The strings would have been resting right on top of the pickup!
To prepare for routing, I had to take the entire instrument apart: neck, bridge, pickguard, electronics — everything that could possibly get in the way of the router. Now all I had to do was simply route the pickup cavity deeper and drop the new pickup in, right? Music Man installed threaded brass inserts into the body, instead of just using wood screws for the pickup height adjustment screws:.
These would have to come out before the router went anywhere near this bass. This was going to be tricky. The trouble was that the pickup bolts were very small — too small for my bushing puller to grab on to:. I needed a large washer with a tiny hole, which would fit under the bolt head and give the bushing puller something to grab on to. After scratching my head for a bit and casting around the shop for a suitable piece of metal, I came up with my solution: do something illegal.
I opted to drill a hole through a penny. I know, I know — defacing currency is against the law. I used double stick tape to secure the penny on to a scrap of wood, set it on my drill press, and punched through the dead center of the Lincoln Memorial.
With my illegal activities complete, I threaded the pickup bolt through the penny, and then lifted the threaded inserts out of the bass with the puller:.
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