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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: keavin on May 24, 2007, 11:17:03 AM

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: keavin on May 24, 2007, 11:17:03 AM

mica is it possible to still somehow order some old rings for these older style pups?I knoticed the holes are there where there was once rings.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/40231.jpg)

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: 2400wattman on May 24, 2007, 11:21:32 AM

That's so cool, a hand hammered brass control plate.

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: mica on May 24, 2007, 12:04:27 PM

Your pickups look fairly typical for the trapezoid style with a brass bar under the pickup for mounting. I'm not seeing the holes - can you point me to them?
 
Also, with the thumbrest there, even if we made a ring for the pickups, it would be pretty skinny.

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: keavin on May 24, 2007, 12:08:54 PM

the holes are right under the E string & the other holes are right under the G string,I'll load up another pic from another angle.

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: mica on May 24, 2007, 12:18:10 PM

I think I see them, on the edge of the neck pickup on the fingerboard side only. Maybe it was a truss rod cover?

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: keavin on May 24, 2007, 12:38:56 PM

Ive placed tooth pics in the holes where the rings once were.http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture015mb6.jpg (http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture015mb6.jpg)

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: dela217 on May 24, 2007, 02:34:41 PM

I had an old bass with the trapezoidal pickups and the rings.  The rings were made out of walnut and oil finished.  The bass was not an Alembic, but an Alembic modified Guild.
 
I also had an Alembic from 1975 that had brass rings.  They were quite ornate looking like these brackets on the adjustment sides of the pickups:
 
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I wish I had pics of that bass.  It was quite cool.

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: mica on May 24, 2007, 03:06:06 PM

To make rings for this bass, we'd need the instrument to be here for fitting, otherwise the chances that it would fit are slim.  
 
I don't know what the original rings were made of on this bass, or if there were there from the beginning or added later. To not interfere with the function of the pickups, they need to be non-conductive (like wood).

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: keavin on May 24, 2007, 04:36:25 PM

Cool!!!...when i come back to san francisco this summer to visit my family I'll make sure to bring the Bass!.......thanks!

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: lbpesq on May 25, 2007, 07:21:32 AM

Keavin:
 
If you're going to be in the Bay Area, please give us a head's up.  If possible, I'd love to see Old No. 12 in the flesh (in the wood?).  Maybe a quick meet & greet in Santa Rosa?
 
Bill, tgo

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: keavin on May 25, 2007, 04:17:09 PM

Will do, I'll post here.

Title: Pickup Rings.
Post by: dadabass2001 on May 28, 2007, 11:26:45 AM

Kevin,  
Cool pic on Imageshack ... it looks like an anti-slapper spike array to keep untrained hands offa your baby.
 
 
Mike