Sire Bass Club!

[cflat]

We can't say it, but yet we have an emoji for it:

ohhh,,,hahaa

 

[Plutonium244]

I love how this forum takes perfectly acceptable words like s+++t and makes us sound like a 2 year old.

I recommend the spacing technique, at least until they catch on: c r a p p y.

 

[cflat]

I recommend the spacing technique, at least until they catch on: c r a p p y.

Oh good one.

 

[Glazenn]

In this jazz video from Thailand, the bassist plays a Sire MM V7.
And his Jazz Bass tone is absolutely wonderful. This one has an alder body.



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[IsleyBros]

Does anyone happen to know if the pickup coil wire is wound directly around the pole pieces or if they are encased in a plastic bobbin? Talking about the V7

 

[cflat]

Does anyone happen to know if the pickup coil wire is wound directly around the pole pieces or if they are encased in a plastic bobbin? Talking about the V7

Don't know, but these are some great sounding pickups.

 

[IsleyBros]

Don't know, but these are some great sounding pickups.

Yes sure. Reason i'm asking is because i want to push the pole pieces to match the fretboard radius but i don't think i'm going to do it if the wire is wound directly around the poles. Seems too risky

 

[Plutonium244]

Yes sure. Reason i'm asking is because i want to push the pole pieces to match the fretboard radius but i don't think i'm going to do it if the wire is wound directly around the poles. Seems too risky

Maybe you can pull the cover off of one of the pickups and see. If you do, let us know, please.

 

[chinjazz]

Maybe you can pull the cover off of one of the pickups and see. If you do, let us know, please.

Luckily, I've got a 5 string set out:

 

[IsleyBros]

Maybe you can pull the cover off of one of the pickups and see. If you do, let us know, please.

I've done that but there's no way to tell just by looking at the pickup

 

[Plutonium244]

I've done that but there's no way to tell just by looking at the pickup

Well I am only guessing here, so consult someone else before running with this, but I think most basses made today have a bobbin; it would, IMO, be rare to find one wound directly around the pole pieces in mainstream production basses. One reason is that bobbins are more cost-effective for assembly; pole pieces can simply be inserted into a wound bobbin during build. Since Sire is all about cost-savings in their design, I'd think that would be the way they do it.

Might not be worth the risk, but if there's any way to check the top or bottom edge of the wind, maybe with some tool to ever-so-slightly pull away or poke through, and see if there's any plastic/etc behind it at that extreme edge, that would tell you. Not at all sure I'd poke around in my windings though.

If anyone here on TB has a DEAD pickup that they've replaced, maybe an autopsy could be done...

But I'd say odds are good there's a bobbin. This aint no custom shop build.

 

[chinjazz]

Well I am only guessing here, so consult someone else before running with this, but I think most basses made today have a bobbin; it would, IMO, be rare to find one wound directly around the pole pieces in mainstream production basses. One reason is that bobbins are more cost-effective for assembly; pole pieces can simply be inserted into a wound bobbin during build. Since Sire is all about cost-savings in their design, I'd think that would be the way they do it.

Might not be worth the risk, but if there's any way to check the top or bottom edge of the wind, maybe with some tool to ever-so-slightly pull away or poke through, and see if there's any plastic/etc behind it at that extreme edge, that would tell you. Not at all sure I'd poke around in my windings though.

If anyone here on TB has a DEAD pickup that they've replaced, maybe an autopsy could be done...

But I'd say odds are good there's a bobbin. This aint to custom shop build.

The effort involved may be greater in time, (with no guaranteed result) than getting a different set of pickups
to your liking.

 

[cflat]

Yes sure. Reason i'm asking is because i want to push the pole pieces to match the fretboard radius but i don't think i'm going to do it if the wire is wound directly around the poles. Seems too risky

Do you have a weak sounding string to feel the need to mess with the polepieces?

 

[Glazenn]

Does anyone happen to know if the pickup coil wire is wound directly around the pole pieces or if they are encased in a plastic bobbin? Talking about the V7

Yes sure. Reason i'm asking is because i want to push the pole pieces to match the fretboard radius but i don't think i'm going to do it if the wire is wound directly around the poles. Seems too risky

I see it like a problem to a solution...

 

[chinjazz]

Whenever I felt the string to string output wasn't what I thought it should be, I usually lowered the string height, yet keeping consistent with the fretboard radius. That adjustment along with slight truss rod turns usually got me there...

You may have done some of that though.

 

[scazbass]

My son suggested swapping the pick guards on my V7 and V7 Vintage. Very happy with the results

 

[ursus]

I did the same on my 5-strings, but I have the black VV7

 

[ursus]

Regarding your change scazbass, did the pickguards fit? One is the see through ash/maple made in China the other black alder/maple is made in Indonesia. Strange enough none of the pickguards fit at the metal plate, slightly oversized

 

[scazbass]

Regarding your change scazbass, did the pickguards fit? One is the see through ash/maple made in China the other black alder/maple is made in Indonesia. Strange enough none of the pickguards fit at the metal plate, slightly oversized

Hi Ursus. Both of my basses are Indonesian and pickguards swapped easy enough. There were minor differences but managed to swap them over without filing or cutting.

 

[Aweiss96]

New bridge - HipshotView attachment 1112442

Did you change the knobs?