5 string mudbucker

[blendermassacre]

Does it exist?

Its my favorite pickup ever, but a fiver would be nice

[knucklehead G]

Bump, because I've been looking for one of these too.

[Darkstrike]

MEC make them, but they make Darkstars look cheap by comparison.

[knucklehead G]

MECs Starbass pickups look like mudbuckers but they are single coils and about $500 a piece.

[Darkstrike]

Oh wait, they only sell 4 stringers aftermarket, it seems keeping the 5er Warwick exclusive.

[SGD Lutherie]

The MEC pickups are also single coils, or at least that's how they are listed. I doubt they sound like mudbuckers, they only look like them. Of course Darkstar's don't sound like mudbuckers either. They are much clearer sounding.

If you are going for the sound and not the look, it wouldn't be hard to make a mudbucker clone in an EMG style shell. That's been something I have been wanting to offer, and I have a 70's mudbucker to use for reverse engineering.

I would like to make one in a more traditional cover though, so I might pursue that at some point.

[knucklehead G]

I was looking for the sound and look for a five string Tele bass.

[Jazz Ad]

I'm pretty sure Curtis Novak would make one for you.

[Ric5]

It is very easy to convert a 4 string mudbucker into a 5 string mudbucker. Here is a photo of my conversion of a Rickenbacker guitar 6 string model into a 5 string pickup. I glued a square steel rod accross the 6 poles. This will also work for 4 poles. I have an Epiphone sg body that is waiting around for a future frankenstein project and maybe I should use a converted mudbucker in the neck position.

[walterw]

neat!

for that matter, wouldn't just about any dual coil soapbar with blade poles serve if jammed up by the neck in mudbucker territory?

(i can't imagine that sounding very good for a 5-string, but that's beating a dark horse of another color.)

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by Jazz Ad

I'm pretty sure Curtis Novak would make one for you.

Novak is buying the parts for his EB-0 pickup. Probably the same parts as used in the Artec and others.

He could modify the keeper to hold five pole screws, but then you would need a custom cover.

So it's likely that wont happen.

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by walterw

neat!

for that matter, wouldn't just about any dual coil soapbar with blade poles serve if jammed up by the neck in mudbucker territory?

It wouldn't be hard to make a soapbar mudbucker. It's not the location, it's the way they are wound.

But the OP is looking for something that looks like one too.

Also he wanted the Tele bass version, which is a different animal from the Gibson.

[Ric5]

I have an epiphone eb0 body laying around. I should get a new and a mudbucker and make another 5 string frankensteined monster.