Beedster Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 (edited) Folks This recently made its way to Beedsters Home for Abused Basses. It's a lovely old bit of wood in the shape of a Jazz Bass that someone has really gone to town on, routing new PUP cavities with what appears to have been some form of agricultural machinery. Installed PUPs are a pair of Ibanez EXP-4s which I suspect I'm not going to get along with too well. I'm going to tidy things up and then I'd quite like to put in something PUP-wise that will be different to a Precision or Jazz. It's going to have a fretless neck and I can experiment with a J-Retro also. Present PUP size is 11cm x 3.5cm. Suggestions welcome Edited September 24 by Beedster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted September 24 Author Share Posted September 24 (edited) Bart MK will fit, any opinions? https://bartolini.net/application/mk/ Edited September 24 by Beedster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Pretty wide for a 4-string pickup. With a little more enlargement in both directions you could go for an EMG 45 series, or in one direction and with a couple of slivers of wood each side an EMG 40 series. I've got a pair of MK5CBC in a Cort Space which are fine, well-balanced pickups (TBH the original MK1s seem OK to me too, there was a strange manufacturing fault that I didn't notice when I got the bass). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 EMG numbers come from sizing: 35 is 3.5" wide etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 What's the actual cavity size? Looks like there's some wiggle room there so 5 string Bart M5 (114mm x 37mm) with blade magnets might be a better choice. Could spec a 5 string Singularity in M5 size for example. The Bartolini site has a handy feature on the right where you can determine what size you need: https://bartolini.net/product-category/bass-pickups/bass-soapbars/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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