Custom pickups?

[Owen]

I have a bass which I love dearly, but fancy a change of pickups.

At the moment I have a pair of EMG 45TW in it, but fancy a more organic passive vibe.

(http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=29803)

The problem is that the pickups are 6 string size, but the bass is a 5 string. With EMGs it makes no odds because the magnet is a blade all the way across the pick up so spacing is not an issue. Unfortunately this means that I need a pickup the same size as a 45TW so I cannot drop any normal 45TW sized pickup in because the pole pieces will be in the wrong place.

Can anyone suggest a manufacturer who might be able to knock something up for me. Wizard do not do that size

TIA as ever.

[fullrangebass]

Villex pickups. They will give you the tone you are after, and then some

www.villex.com

[d-basser]

wizard will do a set any size if you ask them nicely

[ARGH]

Jim Fleeting will make a P/U to order

[warwickhunt]

Have you spoken to Andy at Wizard? Only reason I ask is that when I wanted pups to drop into my Warwick Infinette there wasn't a pup in the Wizard catalogue (JJ) that fitted, so I spoke to Andy and he quite literally made me one the correct size/shape (cut the lugs off the J pups and joined with a poly strip in the middle). It still ended up costing pretty much the same as if I'd just bought a pair of pups off the shelf.

[Rayman]

[quote name='fullrangebass' post='308897' date='Oct 17 2008, 08:24 PM']Villex pickups. They will give you the tone you are after, and then some

www.villex.com[/quote]

Enough said.

[Owen]

Thanks y'all!

I emailed Andy at Wizard but he said he can do EMG 35 + 40 but not 45

I have emailed Villex and they can help, I will look for Jim Fleeting.

[Gamble]

I spoke to Andy at Wizard a couple of weeks ago about p'ups for my Jazz 5 and he couldn't help. I'll be giving Villex a look then!

[Lfalex v1.1]

Doesn't anyone offer a service to retro-fit new internals into old pick-up housings?
Can't go wrong with that - at least they'd definitely fit whatever they came out of...

[phil_the_bassist]

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='309147' date='Oct 18 2008, 11:46 AM'][/quote]

OT, but WWH, that's one DAMN sexy bass!!!

[7string]

I think Aaron Armstrong (Kent Armstrong's son) does some custom winding. I've got one of his pickups in my Sei 7 and more will be in my forthcoming ACG 9.

After a quick Google, I found that there's a website under contruction [url="http://www.armstrongpickups.co.uk"]www.armstrongpickups.co.uk[/url] which says that he does do custom windings and repairs.

This from the web page:

Contact:
Tel | 01233 822120
e-mail | [email protected]

Would definately be worth a call or e-mail.

[Merton]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='309852' date='Oct 19 2008, 02:55 PM']Doesn't anyone offer a service to retro-fit new internals into old pick-up housings?
Can't go wrong with that - at least they'd definitely fit whatever they came out of...[/quote]
Pretty sure Andy @ Wizard does this...? Definetely a good idea to look into it!

[skelf]

Aaron Armstrong will do that for you.