Making a Pickup Ring

[you_never_know]

I'm making a pickup ring for my Yamaha BB1200 so I can use standard P-bass pickups. I made one out of 1/8" acrylic, but I also have a piece of Delron that I can use if the acrylic doesn't look that good.

Cutting the outside to size and shape is of course trivial. What do you recommend for cutting the inside? Given the size of the piece, I didn't really want to freehand it on the router table. I could Dremel it, or saw and file it, but that might not look all that clean.

On the other hand, I guess I could make a template and do it on the router table. And then I could make a dozen or so and sell them on eBay.

What do you think?

 

[Beej]

For a one off, I'd drill a hole, saw it out by hand and clean up the edges with a file. Time consuming, but at least you'll have perfection. I don't know how much of a market there is for these things...

 

[you_never_know]

Well, the point of selling them would be just to avoid totally wasting the template. I think there's probably about a dozen or so people out there who might want them, eventually. ;-)

Yeah, I've been fooling around with it through the afternoon, and I'm beginning to think a one-off is the answer. My smallest flush-trim bit is 1/2", and that leaves enough filing work so that there's almost no advantage to the router table.

 

[BeatlePete]

Hi,

Did you ever complete this project, and by any chance, do you still have the original BB1200 pickup ring, and if so, would you be willing to part with it? I got my '78 without the ring, and have had no luck locating a replacement.