It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
There is almost zero margin for trimming the vulcanised fibreboard bobbin plates of a P or J pickup without severing the copper coil. Plastic bobbins might be slightly more workable because the cutting should be less jerky.
A dual-coil, noise-cancelling J type pickup would fit. Two single coils, placed side by side should also fit under the stock pickup cover but the polepieces are unlikely to align with anything. Something with bar or blade polepieces would be your best bet.
I have a weird pseudo goldfoil humbucker that would fit your brief but nobody else's.
My solution would be an EMG-35 P4, -DC or -DCTW pickup.
I was looking at a Westone Spectrum ST bass for a friend. Pickup totally dead (physically knackered).
https://i.imgur.com/e5Z6yud.jpg
With huge thanks to @prowla, I obtained a P-bass pickup and heavily modified it (dismembered, shaved the bobbins down, etc).
The result? Polepieces aligned perfectly with the original housing, everything fitted nicely and it’s all back together.
https://i.imgur.com/u9Bzl1h.jpg
Sounds good, too! Very pleased.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/