| Author | Message | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1185 Registered: 12-2002 |
mica is it possible to still somehow order some old rings for these older style pups?I knoticed the holes are there where there was once rings.  | ||
| 2400wattman
Advanced Member Username: 2400wattman Post Number: 384 Registered: 11-2005 |
That's so cool, a hand hammered brass control plate. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 4591 Registered: 6-2000 |
Your pickups look fairly typical for the trapezoid style with a brass bar under the pickup for mounting. I'm not seeing the holes - can you point me to them? Also, with the thumbrest there, even if we made a ring for the pickups, it would be pretty skinny. | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1186 Registered: 12-2002 |
the holes are right under the E string & the other holes are right under the G string,I'll load up another pic from another angle. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 4592 Registered: 6-2000 |
I think I see them, on the edge of the neck pickup on the fingerboard side only. Maybe it was a truss rod cover? | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1187 Registered: 12-2002 |
Ive placed tooth pics in the holes where the rings once were.http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture015mb6.jpg | ||
| dela217
Senior Member Username: dela217 Post Number: 803 Registered: 6-2002 |
I had an old bass with the trapezoidal pickups and the rings. The rings were made out of walnut and oil finished. The bass was not an Alembic, but an Alembic modified Guild. I also had an Alembic from 1975 that had brass rings. They were quite ornate looking like these brackets on the adjustment sides of the pickups: { } I wish I had pics of that bass. It was quite cool. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 4593 Registered: 6-2000 |
To make rings for this bass, we'd need the instrument to be here for fitting, otherwise the chances that it would fit are slim. I don't know what the original rings were made of on this bass, or if there were there from the beginning or added later. To not interfere with the function of the pickups, they need to be non-conductive (like wood). | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1188 Registered: 12-2002 |
Cool!!!...when i come back to san francisco this summer to visit my family I'll make sure to bring the Bass!.......thanks! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2395 Registered: 7-2004 |
Keavin: If you're going to be in the Bay Area, please give us a head's up. If possible, I'd love to see Old No. 12 in the flesh (in the wood?). Maybe a quick meet & greet in Santa Rosa? Bill, tgo | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 1191 Registered: 12-2002 |
Will do, I'll post here. | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 781 Registered: 6-2002 |
Kevin, Cool pic on Imageshack ... it looks like an "anti-slapper spike array" to keep untrained hands offa your baby.  Mike |
