Fender thumbrests

[Henry D]

How high are they? Do they go closer to the strings than a pickup?

I'm looking to be able to plant my thumb on something around the same distant away from the strings as a pickup, so I can easily slide it onto the E-string when I'm done playing on it.

 

[johnnyflats]

Get a piece of cellotape or any kind of stickytape for that matter to temporarily fix the rest to the bass and keep moving it until you feel comfortable with its position.
Its simple but effective and at least you wont have holes all over the place

 

[SneakyT]

They are too tall to fit under the strings without shaving it down. Although shaving it down from the backside would be very easy.

 

[DeliriumTremens]

if you can't transition to the E string from the pickup a finger rest isn't going to help. Work on your technique

 

[SneakyT]

if you can't transition to the E string from the pickup a finger rest isn't going to help. Work on your technique

Work on your etiquette man. Bet you wouldn't have told Gary Willis the same thing when he built a ramp to keep from digging in. If the guy thinks a thumb rest will help him who are you to say he's wrong. Jeez.

 

[RBrownBass]

if you can't transition to the E string from the pickup a finger rest isn't going to help. Work on your technique

Not a bad suggestion. Someone gave me similar advice almost 20 years ago, and I'm glad they did.

Work on your etiquette man. Bet you wouldn't have told Gary Willis the same thing when he built a ramp to keep from digging in. If the guy thinks a thumb rest will help him who are you to say he's wrong. Jeez.

Dude's post was blunt, but didn't seem rude. Unless he gets one of those Mark Egan-style thumbrests instead of a Fender one, he's going to have to take his thumb off the rest every time he needs to play closer to the bridge or the fingerboard. A little work with floating thumb or even anchoring on the E string itself until it's time to pluck that string will probably do him good. Back in the early 90s, I was one of those guys who put his thumb on the neck pickup. My tonal range was severely limited until I started anchoring my thmb on the E string (when not floating)and using the whole plucking area between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge.

Oh, and while a lot of us don't know who anyone else really is here and could run the risk of insulting a Gary Willis by mistake, I doubt that a bassist of Willis' talent would start an online message board thread asking about the correct thumbrest height to match a pickup so he could slide to the rest from the E string.