This is why Leo put pickup covers on...

[Dave Vader]

Decided to swap my old pickups out for the wizards that were in my fretless P, which is probably going to get sold. As I got under the pickguard I discovered the problem with gigging it for years and years with big sweaty hands, playing right over the pickup. After managing to get the rusted to crap screws out, the accumulated finger gunk in the gaps round the pickup, looked like this.



Wish I'd put big ashtrays over it to stop me doing this now.

[gary mac]

That is pretty ming Dave

[discreet]

Eww, gross!!

Edited April 12, 2014 by discreet

[Dave Vader]

(it didn't look much nicer around the wizards on the fretless if I'm honest, but didn't take photos of that)

[Dingus]

Crikey, if that's the crud on your pickups then I can only imagine the state of your underwear !

Edited April 12, 2014 by Dingus

[discreet]

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1397327053' post='2422906']
I can only imagine the state of your underwear !
[/quote]

Please don't... blooargh!

Edited April 12, 2014 by discreet

[BassBus]

Inthink that's what Dave Reaume describes as DNA

[discreet]

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1397327855' post='2422915']
Inthink that's what Dave Reaume describes as DNA
[/quote]

Or what Dave DNA describes as 'Reaume'.

[redstriper]

The funk's in the gunk

[Dandelion]

I can see a spiders web. .

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1397334821' post='2423014']
I can see a spiders web. .
[/quote]

Aye. Brown spider

[Oopsdabassist]

Origin of the Brown note then, haha cracked it!

[lojo]

Now thats what I call road worn

[Skol303]

Looks more like the corrosive effects of... oh I dunno... cider maybe??

[xgsjx]

Now I know why some players wear silk gloves!

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1397503098' post='2424605']
Looks more like the corrosive effects of... oh I dunno... cider maybe??
[/quote]

There may be a bit of cider in there...

[Immo]

Dig deeper, the Ark of the Covenant gotta be somewhere near...

[leschirons]

Those p/ups have paid some serious dues. I think they're cool.

[discreet]

For the love of God, get the hoover on it then spray it with Dettol!!

[Dave Vader]

You know the worst thing about this?
I only refinished and fixed it all up about 5 years ago. Those pickups were brand new then.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1397638023' post='2425823']
You know the worst thing about this?
I only refinished and fixed it all up about 5 years ago. Those pickups were brand new then.

[/quote]

5 years..? That's not long enough. Put it back on the roof of the garden shed and wait another decade or two. Relicing is a game of patience, but just think of all that added value/mojo..!

[Dave Vader]

Surprising isn't it?
Forget relicing, if you want an aged look to your bass, just give us a lend of it for a year or so.
I can add mojo.

[keving]

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1397503102' post='2424606']
Now I know why some players wear silk gloves!
[/quote]

Silk gloves? I'd want a pair a marigolds before I played that bass

[Dave Vader]

[quote name='keving' timestamp='1397648498' post='2425980']
Silk gloves? I'd want a pair a marigolds before I played that bass
[/quote]

It didn't look so bad before I chewed up the rusty screwheads trying to get the pickups out, honest guv.

[Dave Vader]

here's the proof it was only 5 years ago I fixed it up...

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/rebuilding-a-p-bass-copy-step-by-step-and-fun-to-watch.558473/"]http://www.talkbass.com/threads/rebuilding-a-p-bass-copy-step-by-step-and-fun-to-watch.558473/[/url]