I hesitate to post this. $45 Thunderbird pickups.

[drbassman]

With these pickups, what mods do you have to do to a modern T-bird to make them fit? The pickups look shallower than modern T-bird pickups. Is it a simple as gluing in some material into the existing pickup routes to get the pickups close enough to the strings, or is some deeper modding required? As I mentioned before, I want to put these in my Tokai T-bird, alongside a new wiring loom, and I want to have these pickups and the rings on the bass. The Tokai is similar to the Epiphone T-bird, except it has a Fender-style bridge. The pickups are those tall, black jobbies with the tapered ends and the texture on the top.

Apropos nothing in particular, I have installed those black Epiphone T-bird pickups in both an OLP Stingray and a Cort GB74 in the neck position and they sound great!

I use strips of adhesive backed foam rubber (1/2 to 3/4" thick weather stripping from hardware store) to take up slack in pup routs.  Easy mod, reversible. 

[Johnny Crab]

Greco does similar under their TB pickups

[godofthunder]

   That's exactly what I did.

[Highlander]

Ordered one too ...

[Johnny Crab]

Daisy Rock bass, already a bling/audience eye-candy bass but sound is lame. The ring test pic shows a slight bit of routing to be done(EMGs were hard to get out, rings made 'em look better), and the other pic is to get a preview.....liking it.

[the mojo hobo]

There is now a 9.2 K ohm pickup available, and you may notice that with the $5.00 increase in price now 6 screws for the pickup rings are included.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thunderbird-Bass-Pickup-Vitage-Sytle-for-Gibson-Chrome-Resistance-9-2K-/221979516651?hash=item33af029eeb:g:uJoAAOSwp5JWVtGE

[Basvarken]

Interesting. Would that 9.2 K be best for bridge position? And the other for the neck position?

[lowend1]

Interesting. Would that 9.2 K be best for bridge position? And the other for the neck position?

Good question. Typically the bridge pickup is the hotter of the two, because it receives lower string amplitude. I seem to remember hearing that they weren't calibrated that way in the old days, though. The original ad does state that the 8k pickups were suited for either position.

[Bionic-Joe]

SHIT! I just bought another one...wish I had Seen this before!!!

[veebass]

And the shipping has increased. 

[the mojo hobo]

SHIT! I just bought another one...wish I had Seen this before!!!

You can relax Baz, it wasn't there before. It is newly listed.

[Johnny Crab]

Just asked the seller about how many of the 9.2's he's got. I'd rather install these once with the lower ohm pup at the neck and higher towards the bridge but the new auction/ad does not have a % sold for figuring out how many he's got. I'll pass it on when/if he replies.

I did buy pairs of the other ones but with this new "speed bump" in the planning of projects, I guess maybe other basses may get the leftover neck ones mixed with their stock pickup. When I get routing measurements figured from doing the Daisy Rock mods, I'll post them. They'll be needed anyway if another bass here needs fixing or a complete new route.

EDIT: No answer yet, just ordered 2 of the 9.2's.

[lowend1]

Placed another order - for a single 9.2k. Will pair that with one of the previously ordered 8ks and use the remaining 8k in an old Japanese P-Bass copy that has a chrome TB Plus in it now. Let the fun begin!

[Johnny Crab]

Seller says they made about 70 of the 9.2K's "per customer request" so someone mentioned it and they actually listened. Imagine that!!??!!

[Bionic-Joe]

Wow!!!!