Jazz Bass Pickup Surrounds

[Delberthot]

I decided to change the pickups on my Cort Space 4 from the Bartolinis to EMG Jazz bass and had this great idea of making pickup surrounds to hide the gaps around the new pickups. Something simple scratchplate material.

 

Unfortunately, this morning, I ran out of talent and made a complete dog's ear of trying to make them.

 

I've seen them on Ebay in the USA but they seem a bit steep at the best part of £50 for a couple of bits of plastic.

 

Does anyone know a source in the UK for these or even if one of the many talented members on here are able to make these for me?

 

I just need simple black surrounds that I will probably just tape on to cover the 108mm x 34mm gap.

 

I had also thought about buying soapbar sized covers for these and fitting them over the top but I dislike how large they are. I can't rest my thumb on the edge like I can with Fender or Musicman sized pickups due to the fact that the edge of the pickup is so far from the strings

 

 

Edited Saturday at 12:29 by Delberthot

[snorkie635]

Some of our esteemed brethren or sistern (?) might be able to print you something on one of these new-fangled 3D printer-whatsitnames? Good luck.

[PaulThePlug]

Exactly this^ I'd like some...

Red SR300 with Maida Vale Stacks got Red Foam

And the SR400 with DiMarzio Twin Coils

[Delberthot]

Great minds think alike 🙂

 

I've found two sources so far:

 

These from the US

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404109207020

 

 

And from the UK

 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1868463728/pickup-surround-to-fit-us-or-mim-jazz?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=bass+pickup+rings&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&sts=1&loc=1&local_signal_search=1&content_source=180517c7a15b6280b604ffb74fb2af767a0bc58d%3A1868463728&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=180517c7a15b6280b604ffb74fb2af767a0bc58d%3A1868463728

[PaulThePlug]

For that €£$ i'll wait until some kind soul has so. Jazz pup packing foam.

[snorkie635]

Try to keep this topic up there, as someone will pick it up and provide a solution.

[Delberthot]

11 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

For that €£$ i'll wait until some kind soul has so. Jazz pup packing foam.

 

I actually didn't think about this.

 

I have the packaging that my EMGs came in which has dense foam with cut-outs for the pickups but I doubt that I am steady handed enough to cut it to fit in the gap.

[PaulThePlug]

Thats the beauty of the foam... soft foam cut with scissors, hard foam, netal ruler and carving knife, plus it squishes to fit!

[Delberthot]

Well the foam didn't work. Unlike what I assume is the foam from Fender pickups above, EMG just has plain rectangles

 

 

 

 

[Delberthot]

So it was back to plan A which was fit the EMGs into soapbar cases.

 

The neck pickup was a tight fit length wise but the bridge one wouldn't go in at all due to the tubes (?) for the screws to go through. Luckily I was able to snap one off right at the top of the underside and still had enough room to get a screw past it to go into the body.

 

I am very happy with the result - looks more or less original (with the exception of the extra pot hole) despite having EMGs and a BTS system EQ fitted.