how to make wood pickup covers?

I did my first set of covered pups with my last bass and I really like'em.

These were jazz pups so I removed the cover and measured them for digitizing. I tweaked the patterns for both the cover and it's matching cavity. I printed patterns from the computer and attached them. I used the paper patterns to make some router patterns. Then I routed the covers from the same stock used for the body. Thicker sides and a veneer thickness top. I've got a method for making them adjustable but I'm going to draw up an illustration ifor showing you - just thinking about how I would describe it makes my head spin.

I'll get another post up directly

 

Here's some drawings that illustrate what I did in the photo's

The first panel is what we are going after

The second is how the cover is shortened after it's first carved

The third panel shows how I made some captive nuts to hold the adjustment screws

The final panel is an exploded view of the entire system

 

Here's the second set of illustrations:

 

And here's some photo's of the solution in action:

 

So, you glue the "lower frames" in place, and stuff the void with foam to force the pu & cover agianst the bolt heads?

 

Yes

 

i learned something new today

 

hambone any chance of either posting those pictures again? or emailing them to me at funkybass69@hotmail.com. i am interested in making wenge pickup covers for bartolini soapbars sound possible?

and do i remove the casing of the pickup, and how do i do this?

any help woudl be great, thanks.

 

please re-post the photos..............t

 

Yeah, please do that!

 

Hi, new guy here

just writing to ask you to re post the pictures, please, your tutorial look very interesting and helpful

thanks!