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What Jeff said, and I add the pickup has its own shielding via the cable carrying the signal.

...as the largest mass of metal in the pickup assembly (i.e. the chrome cover) has been removed?

It's made of plastic not metal.

Ok..I'm an idiot. Or a guitarist with his first Rick Bass. When the pickup cover is removed, doesn't that leave you with a huge gaping cavity surrounding the pickup? What do you do about that?

It does leave some open space on either end of the pickup, but it's not terribly noticeable. It also give you a place to anchor your thumb, if (like me), that's where you prefer to pluck the strings. It would be nice if RIC made a surround kit for those that prefer the bridge pickup cover off, (I'm not holding my breath), but Pickguardian does make such a surround.

hi

I am gonna try this right now!


what I did when taking off the pickguard, in the past, I took a paper plate, drew the pickguard on the paper plate (no artist at all here, just a rough sketch) and then put the screws into the paper plate at the appprox places that they came from.

make a good "holder" and you dont lose any screws!



wish me luck!


al

Joeys Bass Notes is a great site for information and how to do it advice. I easily removed the cover and got it all back together thanks to his experience and knowledge. Thank you Joey!

Now if Joey could just show me where the little button is that makes you play all the right notes instead of the wrong ones(found that button on my own thank you) I would be eternally gratefull. LOL!!

Pickguardian makes some cool stuff. I ordered a piece from them that I thought fit in the cavity around the pickup and attached to the adjustment screw, thus covering the hole and letting you keep the cool chrome surround on the bass. Well, I got a completely new surround, so one of these years I will have to modify it to fit the way I want it to. It's about number 256 on the list of things I have to do at the moment.

Good luck with your project!

yup!

like it better without, really

will post pics later!


and, on the inside of my 88 jg/bt refin to mg, on the inside of the control cavity, it says "santos" written in pencil......hmmmmmm.....worker auth?


al

whojamfan wrote:Now if Joey could just show me where the little button is that makes you play all the right notes instead of the wrong ones(found that button on my own thank you) I would be eternally gratefull. LOL!!

Here's that little button, Mike!

I LOVE that button!

Joey, I checked the RIC boutique and did search of both forums, and can find no information on how to install this device of yours,so I was forced to drink it . The more I drank, the better I sounded!
Thanks again.

You got it, Mike! You don't install the button, you remove it. Then you transfer the contents into a nice mug, frosted if possible. Then cheers, down the hatch!

I visited the place where they make this special type of button, in Dublin's fair city. I saw thousands of them there. I'm going to experiment...