Neck pickup cavity repair early 70s 4001

[Electro Dale]

Somebody went after this with a hammer and screwdriver enlarging the hole for a Mud-Bucker Gibson pickup.  The cavity was cleaned up and fitted with matching Maple/Walnut pieces, then routed for the stock Ricky neck pickup.




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[TBird1958]

Thank you for giving that poor bass some much needed love!
Meant to say "beautiful work" on all the basses you've shown us too!

[weekend warrior]

Hey! Thats my july 72 mapleglo!Hard to believe it looked that at one time.Dale did a fantastic job bringing that bass back to stock shape.He was able to finish that rout repair without having to refin the bass!hit the patina dead on too.An outstanding job Dale

[Dave W]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to get near hand tools.

[weekend warrior]

Yeah no Kidding! The first thing i thought when i pulled the guard up was Flat rock and chisel job.

[Denis]

Good grief, that's hard to look at. 

[warriorbass05]

I remember that bass...

[Highlander]

Strewth...!

Neat repair...

[drbassman]

Nice job Dale. Welcome to the forum!

[Daniel_J]

If this bass was owned by a famous player and used to record some hit tunes, then there would be people trying to figured out what brand of hammer and screwdrive size it was used, so they could duplicate it.

But for what it really is, magnificent job on the repair!

[Electro Dale]

 Daniel, that is quite true!  
I'll have to find the final photos of that repair and post a few.  It belongs to one of the members here who besides being a great musician, is a good person even after being banned from 2 other Forums.  

[weekend warrior]

 

[Highlander]

Cant think why (ducking for cover )

Here's a thought...

Why do they cut the slot from the controls to the neck pup in such a fashion as that...?

[Electro Dale]

Here's a thought...

Why do they cut the slot from the controls to the neck pup in such a fashion as that...?

I thought the same thing when I 1st started working at the Rick Factory, so here's how it was explained to me by Dick Burke the woodshop manager:
The slot was originally cut using a 1/2 inch cutter on an overarm pin router, the rest of the cavities were cut with a 1 inch cutter, this meant that the cutter had to be changed and all instruments were placed in the router template twice.  Extra work meant loss of time at the overarm pin router, so a simple way to do this was after all the cavities were routed we would use a 1/2 inch brad point drill bit at the large table drill press and drill each Bass by hand for the neck pickup wire to extend into the control cavity.

[weekend warrior]

Cant think why (ducking for cover )

precisely!