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Aria Pro II CSB - removing pickups


Jerry_B
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Hi all

I've just acquired one of these and was wanting to remove the pickups, namely the bridge pup. This is so that I can put some foam under it and have a bit of control over the height, as at the mo' it's rather low and therefore sounds pretty anemic.

However, after removing the pup screws, the thing doesn't want to budge. Were there actually glued into the cavity? Or are my fingers just too wimpy? ;D

Any help much appreciated!

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That's good to hear - cheers! There's a bit of a gap around the pups so they're not wedged in by the body, so it must just be 36 years of being just sat in it. Anyway, it now means I can just have another go at trying to get the pup to budge, so some more elbow grease is obviously in order.

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5 minutes ago, Jerry_B said:

That's good to hear - cheers! There's a bit of a gap around the pups so they're not wedged in by the body, so it must just be 36 years of being just sat in it. Anyway, it now means I can just have another go at trying to get the pup to budge, so some more elbow grease is obviously in order.

Please note : I didn't really use a hammer! ;)

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Well, with a lot of swearing and much flattening of thumbs, I managed to get the bugger to budge! The pup rubber was more like a thinnish block of plastic, so the pup now sits on some slices of mousepad. The bridge pup now it adjustable, and combined with a new set of roundwound Chromes (I think the bass was still wearing the original factory strings!) the whole bass has come to life :D

I've attached a pic so that you can see how it looks now. It's a medium scale 1983 CSB. Thanks again for all the help and encouragement!

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Yeah, it's the first medium scale bass I've ever owned or played and for the first few plays my brain was not sure what to do :D

It's actually more beaten up than it looks in the photo. Various dings and scratches. I'm guessing the previous owner mostly played the E and A strings at the top of the neck and hammering away with a plectrum. There's a lot a scratches around the neck pup, there's gouges in the fingerboard and the frets have seen better days. But it's still very playable and the pups are nice and barky :D

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