$67 Glarry P-Bass

[Ronzo]

There it is. The P-Bass with a MusicLilly pickguard. Just like the one I bought that doesn't fit. Please tell me how you did it.

PS: Greasy Groove will make one for $55. Hard to justify on a $98 bass.

I couldn’t justify it either. What I did was:

• Use 14mm Bourns pots. 24mm CTS pots wouldn’t fit the Glarry’s route.
  
• Trim the bass side of the pickguard’s neck pocket carefully with an x-acto knife to allow it to be rotated clockwise. GO SLOW.
  
• Test fit until the pots and jack drop into the control route.

Mine isn’t perfect. But it’s “good enough for government work”. It helped that mine was the sunburst model; the neck pocket where I overtrimmed is black in that area. Good luck!

 

[BarbaricBass]

I couldn’t justify it either. What I did was:

• Use 14mm Bourns pots. 24mm CTS pots wouldn’t fit the Glarry’s route.
  
• Trim the bass side of the pickguard’s neck pocket carefully with an x-acto knife to allow it to be rotated clockwise. GO SLOW.
  
• Test fit until the pots and jack drop into the control route.

Mine isn’t perfect. But it’s “good enough for government work”. It helped that mine was the sunburst model; the neck pocket where I overtrimmed is black in that area. Good luck!

Thanks for all that. I bought a wiring kit from "The Art of Tone". The CTS pots do fit inside the control cavity. There is a tab of wood near a screwhole that prevents one of the pots entering the cavity. I thought about grinding that down with a Dremel tool. The whole pickguard seems to be under a lot of tension that normally wouldn't be there.

If I could get Greasy Groove to agree, I'd go for the $55 pickguard, if they then made that available to Glarry P-Bass owners as an "off the shelf" product, no longer a custom made item. Lots of Glarry owners would want one, and I'd be a hero!

 

[BarbaricBass]

I couldn’t justify it either. What I did was:

• Use 14mm Bourns pots. 24mm CTS pots wouldn’t fit the Glarry’s route.
  
• Trim the bass side of the pickguard’s neck pocket carefully with an x-acto knife to allow it to be rotated clockwise. GO SLOW.
  
• Test fit until the pots and jack drop into the control route.

Mine isn’t perfect. But it’s “good enough for government work”. It helped that mine was the sunburst model; the neck pocket where I overtrimmed is black in that area. Good luck!

I haven't found any Bourns pots smaller than 16MM. I'm looking at Amplified Parts presently.

 

[Ronzo]

I’m probably off on the Bourns pots dimensions. Sorry, man.

 

[Ronzo]

Thanks for all that. I bought a wiring kit from "The Art of Tone". The CTS pots do fit inside the control cavity. There is a tab of wood near a screwhole that prevents one of the pots entering the cavity. I thought about grinding that down with a Dremel tool. The whole pickguard seems to be under a lot of tension that normally wouldn't be there.

If I could get Greasy Groove to agree, I'd go for the $55 pickguard, if they then made that available to Glarry P-Bass owners as an "off the shelf" product, no longer a custom made item. Lots of Glarry owners would want one, and I'd be a hero!

I agree about the tab of wood. I don’t have the tools nor the hand steadiness to attempt to remove it.

You surely would be a hero! It would be even better to have your vendor offer that pickguard shape in a variety of colors. I suspect that once the die is created, they could stamp them out in a wider variety and reach a larger market. Go for it!