White Pickup Covers? Anyone?

[bassnyc1]

Nice photos! Do you guys play these things? They all look like new museum quality bass. Simply beautiful instruments...

Thanks (for complimenting mine, at least!)
My bass is a working instrument. It gets used a lot.

 

[GregT]

I searched high & low on the internet for 5-string white or vintage cream jazz pickup covers. To my knowledge, they simply don't exist. So I made my own set. I used several coatings of Krylon Fusion (Buttercream color) on the casings after removing the pickups. Sometimes glue-like adhesives are used inside the casings to hold the casings onto the pickups and so they can be stubborn to remove from their casings, some are easy.

Mods:

Fully copper shielded
Vintage Cloth insulated wire
Vintage Cream Pickup covers (Krylon Fusion)
Black MIM jazz pickguard
Fender jazz bass knobs
Fender jazz 6-position Varitone control plate
Hipshot A-style Bridge
Rolled fretboard edges
8-32 Steel threaded inserts in neck
1 1/2" machine screw neck screws
Dunlop strap locks

 

[GregT]

I searched high & low on the internet for 5-string white or vintage cream jazz pickup covers. To my knowledge, they simply don't exist. So I made my own set. I used several coatings of Krylon Fusion (Buttercream color) on the casings after removing the pickups. Sometimes glue-like adhesives are used inside the casings to hold the casings onto the pickups and so they can be stubborn to remove from their casings, some are easy.

Mods:

Fully copper shielded
Vintage Cloth insulated wire
Vintage Cream Pickup covers (Krylon Fusion)
Black MIM jazz pickguard
Fender jazz bass knobs
Fender jazz 6-position Varitone control plate
Hipshot A-style Bridge
Rolled fretboard edges
8-32 Steel threaded inserts in neck
1 1/2" machine screw neck screws
Dunlop strap locks

I am in the same position. I need white pickup covers for a 5 string Jazz. How have these held up for you if you still have it? I might consider doing the same thing.

 

[stingray69]

I am in the same position. I need white pickup covers for a 5 string Jazz. How have these held up for you if you still have it? I might consider doing the same thing.

Sorry for such a late reply - haven't signed in much in the last couple of weeks.

They've held up brilliantly actually - no chipping, cracking or anything. I did however, take my time doing them and applied multiple, light coats and built it up in thickness rather than trying to coat it on thick in 1 or 2 passes. I was trying to avoid runs in the paint. IIRC, I made about 6-8 light passes with some minimal drying time in between coats. It really is a piece of cake - the tricky part for this pair of pickups was the glue they used to hold the bobbin firmly inside the plastic covers. Other pickups I've removed, there has been no glue and no hassle removing the covers. Best of luck!

 

[Calexia13]

Here is bluesman vintage refinished in vintage white along with pickup covers and thumbrest.