Modify a Les Paul Tribute Jr DC bass with a Hobbit Pickup......

[Basvarken]

I agree!

[Grog]

It would be a tight fit, but defiantly doable.

[Basvarken]

I'd skip the ring. It serves no function, since the pickguard is already there.

[Grog]

I'd skip the ring. It serves no function, since the pickguard is already there.

Now that pickguards are available to be ordered custom, that would be the way to go. When I did the one with the LPR pickup, I needed the ring to cover parts of the original pickup opening.

[godofthunder]

Nice work,I bet that's going to sound great!👍🏻

[Grog]

I've got two new black pick guards coming with the pickup hole omitted, likely Monday. One will be to re-do the one with the LPR Pickup, without the ring. The other will be to install an eight wire bass pickup without a ring. In this one, I plan to go directly into another '69 Shure Bullet mic transformer & wire the rest high impedance. This sounded great using the Les Paul Signature pickup.

[Basvarken]

Looking forward to the results.

[Grog]

The last of the parts I ordered, the pick guards, showed up yesterday. I'll bring the bass back home Tuesday & hopefully get started after Easter. Years ago, I bench tested several combinations of wiring the bass pickup with two wires, hope I can find my notes.
Rob, what combination did you find sounded best to you?

[Basvarken]

You mean of the 8 wires coming for the pickup?

On this bass I chose the full windings. Which is my preferred setting on any Les Paul Bass.
So I left the Red and Blue not connected (closed them off with shrink tube).

Green for ground. Brown is hot.

[Grog]

Yes, the eight wires from the pickup. Thanks! I just remembered that about twenty years ago, I bought a couple NOS switches that were supposed to be selector switches for the Triumph Bass. They look similar but like they have double sets of connectors.




I don't know if I'll have room, or want to deal with the extra wireing at this time. On my Hobbit, I keep it on the 2nd (middle) position most of the time.

[Basvarken]

If you want to use all three coil taps you need a double wafer switch, yes.

[Grog]

I also have this one from the NOS control plate that I molested to get parts for the LPR version.

[Grog]

I'm going to be having a trigger finger release the first week of May, so I thought I'd better get going on this project. I won't be hand filing anything for a while after surgery. I have the two pick guards pretty much done. The components with the LPR pickup are transfered to the new pick guards. The next step will be to route the body for clearance for the eight wire bass pickup. Surprisingly, there isn't much to route out. I hope to do that tomorrow. Then just wire everything up.

[Basvarken]

That is coming along nicely.
Goodluck with the hand surgery.

[morrow]

That's going to be neat as heck.