I bought a used junk bass and I am working on getting it back to 100%. My first plan was to replace the pickup covers. I searched and searched. Not overly expensive somewhere between $10 and $20. Well, if anyone reading this knows, I am pretty cheap. So, I searched a little more. I found Pickup covers for $5 SHIPPED Anyway, here is the link for some great prices on "generic" parts - http://www.universaljems.com/
Oh, by the way, if you do not see what you want (he did not show the cream P-bass covers) ask him. He shot me an answer in about 1/2 hour and they take a week for him to get!!
Amen to that, brother! I have heard it said at my job (and I'm sure it applies to most all of life, not just to the IT industry): Your options are quick, inexpensive and quality. At any given time, you may only pick any combination of two from the options list. You can have fast service and high quality, but it'll be very expensive. You can have inexpensive fast service, but it will be of poor quality. You can have quality work at a reasonable price, but it will take a lot longer.
While I agree to an extent, sometimes, something does not have to be expensive to be quality. For example, my pickup covers that I just bought for $5 shipped. No different than the black Seymour Duncan Black covers I removed, except 1/2 the price. Also, Speaker Cables. Electrical extension cords (in many colors) are no different than regular speaker cables, except 1/4 the price! Early Hondo and Washburn basses were very inexpensive, but some were of the highest quality of any Fender or Gibson I have played. However, there is no mistaking the quality of my SWR or Modulus.
People think inexpensive means cheap, and this is not always the case, as with expensive equating to high end. Cost has become the trendy way of judging quality, but if you do your research, you can find equal or greater quality at less expense with time and research. Hipshot gold and chrome B model bridges come to mind. They still to this day have a problem with mill burn showing through their plating because the prep after milling is their weak spot. I won't use a Hipshot "B" anymore because of sending so many back. "A" models rarely have this because it's a single line mill instead of shape milling. Shawn....ummm Tim....ummm (SDB) has a great analogy^^^ and that pretty much says it all. There is affordable quality, sometimes it just takes time and research to find it.
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