Wood pickup covers

[Chaddycakes]

Anybody know if I can buy exotic wood, slip over pickup covers? I'm trying to spiff up my Ken Smith with some walnut pickup covers to replace the black ones. It has 5 strings and jazz pickups.

[line6man]

Wood covers need to be thicker than plastic, so replacing covers without rerouting the pickup cavities is rarely possible.

[Smilodon]

You could get some veneer and just glue it on the pickups.

It won't look like a massive block of wood though as you won't have any end grain on any of the sides.

[Chaddycakes]

Originally Posted by line6man

Wood covers need to be thicker than plastic, so replacing covers without rerouting the pickup cavities is rarely possible.

Oh well. The bass is beautiful anyways.

[Arial Bender]

Covers can be made, I just don't have all the tools I need right now.My neighbor wants covers for his old Ibanez custom with P/J config. Just contact a good woodworker and have them designed to be put on with double sided tape so you don't have to alter anything .

[96tbird]

Originally Posted by Arial Bender

Covers can be made, I just don't have all the tools I need right now.My neighbor wants covers for his old Ibanez custom with P/J config. Just contact a good woodworker and have them designed to be put on with double sided tape so you don't have to alter anything .

Those routes are pretty tight in that bass. I can't see room for the sides to fit in the route unless the plastic covers are removed. Not impossible but generally a bass is routed for wood cover pickups as part of the design process, no?

[Arial Bender]

You just make covers that sit on top of body. you have to have the pickups where you want them, measure from body to top of pu. With a good router/ milling machine setup you can cut top very thin or route all the way through and veneer the top. I would route so that it stepped down over mounting tabs, drill through cover and screw through cover, through pickups to mount.Damn , I miss Auto cad. I already thought this through for my neighbors bass. I may have to invest in a small mill if there's a big enough demand. John

[96tbird]

Yeah, all you need is a mill. :roll eyes:

[smithplyr]

Give David King a shout,at dkbasses.com,He is great at making knobs and covers,He may be able to figure something out for you,and a great guy!