Show me some thumbrests!

[THORRR]

JI used to work with a guy who played a Gibson EBO and kept his fingers wrapped under the guitar in the hollow of the knee-rest and picked like crazy with his thumb!

It looked weird but he got the job done!

 

[ZolkoW]

something like this - but I found those to bee too thick. I'd like something that is the same height as my pup . . .

do you find the height obtrusive? the string hitting and clacking? just curious . . .

you can sand it down to the right height, just do it from the bottom I did it that way, and it works perfectly!

 

[butterfingers1]

 

[Thornton Davis]

Doubles!

TD

 

[bassclef112]

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Here's a custom one I put on an AMB-2 for a customer. This is my favorite design for a thumb rest; a straight bar, parallel to the E-string, a little lower than the E-string, rounded off on top. Shaped and polished ebony.

 

[fourstringbliss]

Here are mine:

Both are wood and attached with double-sided tape or clear adhesive.

 

[blackthorn85]

Here’s my ‘79 P with a rest in the far-more-useful ‘70s upper position:

As an aside, is there anyone out there who makes a replacement Fender rest from a solid chunk of plastic? It seems odd to me that the official ones are a very cheap feeling hollow piece - I always assumed this was a modern thing but even the legit vintage ones I’ve seen are the same (with the exception of those painted wooden single-screw ones on very early Precisions). Unless there’s some (non-cost related) reason for doing them this way?

 

[butterfingers1]

I just ordered thumb rests to put on all my three bass guitars, in the standard spot at an angle just behind the neck. After over 40 years anchored on pickups I find plucking strings closer to the neck gives a fuller tone, in particular the G string which always tends to sound anaemic otherwise.